Hair-raising

That's a hair-raising thought.

It would be a waste of energy to tell a hair-raising story to a bald man.

In the new exhibit, “Natural History of Horror,” the Natural History Museum of Los Angeles County explains the link between art and reality, and shows how filmmakers looked to science and archeology as inspiration for hair-raising movie monsters.

The article that David Borgenicht was reading told people how they might safely land a small plane if the pilot passes out. It got him thinking about other hair-raising situations in movies and TV shows. Of course it’s one thing for an action hero to leap from a moving motorcycle into a car or fend off a killer shark. But how would ordinary, out-of-shape readers do it? How would they wrestle free from an alligator, for example, or survive if their parachutes do not open, or escape from a mountain lion?

Telling a hair-raising story to a bald-headed man is a complete waste of time.

Stop telling hair-raising stories to the kids. Afterwards they aren't able to sleep.