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There is so much pop culture associated with Jaws...it is iconic.

That music! "We're gonna need a bigger boat!" and so on.

This anecdote of mine kind of illustrates how deep into our collective consciousness Jaws has been ingrained!

I had a good friend who told me he was having a nightmare one night when he was living at home going to college. His bedroom was in the cellar of his family's house. Here is how he described it to me:

"I was in a large, completely dark underground parking garage. Way over on the other side of this large garage was a single, small, barred window that had a beam of light streaming in.

Suddenly, I heard it: BUM BUM BUM BUM BUM BUM BUM BUM BUM...

It started off fairly faintly, but was growing louder! I just knew there was a giant man-eating Great White Shark in that underground parking lot! I panicked, and ran as fast as I could to that little window with light coming in, but as I grabbed the bars, I realized I couldn't get out!

BUM BUM BUM BUM BUM BUM BUM BUM BUM BUM BUM BUM BUM...

In panic, I screamed at the top of my lungs "HEEEEEEELLLLLP! HELP! HELLLLLLP!

At that point, I woke up standing on my bed, my face stuffed into the little small cellar window of my bedroom facing our neighbor's house. It was about five o'clock in the morning, and their bedroom light came on!"

Whenever we get together these days, this is one of the stories about him we still tell!