The Basement Monster!!!

Ever since I was a little kid, I have always run up the last few steps on my way out of the basement as if I was chased by some creature. I always assumed that this was just some childhood phase. The other day I was walking in one of the creepy hallways in my dorm's basement with one of my friends from my floor, lets call her magnificent dee. All of a sudden there was a noise that sounded like something between a lions roar, an elephants roar, and pipes that haven't been used for a while and are really squeaky. While I'm sure that there was a reasonable explanation for the creepy noise, my first thought was of the basement monster. We all know about the basement monster, all basements come equipped with one. It is the reason that we run up the stairs whenever leaving almost any basement. Well, i was not by the stairs when this noise went off, so, i started running. this made magnificent dee start to run. So then we wound up screaming and darting into the laundry room looking like creepers, because of course there were people in there. The moral of this anecdote is that even though one might leave home in order to go to college, you don't leave the person you were behind. I would run from the basement monster at home and now i run from the basement monster at school.