What Really Scares You?

[ArmadaBC]

Mechanical devices in bodies of water....very strange I know but stuff like waste water treatment pools scare the crap out of me.

I'm a good swimmer who loves the ocean but put some mechanical shit in a pond and I'm very hesitant.

LOL the human mind is very funny.

[kingdom-tele]

taggin a moose on the highway up here. between the near misses, friends hitting them, knowing people who have died from hitting them, and how easy it is to cruise (no cars) I have had reoccurring daydreams about how I would hit them, how I would dive to avoid being crushed, etc. I now drive like gram at night.

fuckin moose.

[tBatt]

Sickness/injury to family is about it for me... especially where my children are concerned. Lost my daughter's close friend to brain cancer last year...lived 1 year after the diagnosis (nothing the docs could do for it...). Just terrible to see what her parents went though over that year. Not sure how I would cope/survive that.

Went through the same thing a year and a half ago, except it was a close family friend. 10 fucking years old. Her father seems to be holding up alright. Her mother is still a wreck. It's amazing to see how much the entire family has changed because of it.

For me, I would say not feeling accomplished. I just signed onto a m-f job while skipping most of the college part. If I end up with a family of my own to support and myself backed into this situation because I have to be, rather than because I want to be, and without taking some time to myself to travel, I'm not sure what I'll do.

[nest]

myself backed into this situation because I have to be, rather than because I want to be

This pretty much sums up my fears. This and Paul Reiser.

[flatlander#2]

I've been flying in planes since I was 3 months old. For some reason in the last year or so I started freaking out a little when there's heavy turbulence. Never bothered me before - shit, I'd laugh silently at the other passengers getting all white knuckled and closing their eyes. Now I'm not that guy quite yet, but I feel it on the inside... probably because I have 3 other people to live for now.

My father-in-law worked for NW most of my wife's life so she has a gazillion miles under her butt. I have flown steady 6-8 times a year for work for long time. One of first times flying with daughter as infant we hit amazing turbulence. Shit falling out of overheads, people puking, the plane was really going. Even my wife was spooked. I went from being nearly asleep before leaving the jetway to medicating for 2hr flights for about 18 months. My FIL said you know they have only lost one or two from turbulence.

[userA]

aeroplane travel still feels like it shouldn't be happening when i see a jet in the sky, crazy load of steel racing thousands of feet overhead or right over the house, suspended in the air by thrust.

the amount of time i spend on tgr doing nothing scares me.
bf

[HD333]

Helicopters hovering above me while I am in the water.
And
Anything bad happening to my kids and wife.

[Relentless]

Injury or illness to a loved one.

Paralysis for me.

Someone sexually assaulting my girlfriend again.... (or wife, sister, mom) When it happened, we were both 15. If it happened today I'd call my brother in the rangers and go off him ourselves.

[theshredder]

goons, the yakuza, the GOP, those give'r hicks, and abduction by alienz.

edit: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=EI7bi...ture=endscreen

[Buzzworthy]

Fucking heights.

Going on the chairlifts tomorrow. Besides eating a fat gummy, any tips and tricks to make the ride up a bit less uncomfortable?

[MakersTeleMark]

Fucking heights.

Going on the chairlifts tomorrow. Besides eating a fat gummy, any tips and tricks to make the ride up a bit less uncomfortable?

Bar down and focus on your hands.

[AK47bp]

Don’t eat the gummy


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[byates1]

Dunfree

[californiagrown]

Surprise insect infestations. I dont particularly like insects, but one or two dont really bother me and ill just kill them no problem. But large amounts of insects in a small place freak me out.


When i was living in my condo i noticed ants coming out of a light fixture in the ceiling so i hopped up on a stool and unscrewed the fixture so i could spray some poison up there. As soon as i pulled the fixture off an ant nest fell down on my face. Apparently some ants are attracted to electrical current so its not and uncommon place for nests. Well at first i though it was just a shitton of sawdust from termites eating wood or something, but then all the sawdust started moving on me... and i freaked the fuck out.

Next story is i hadnt walked outside onto my back porch in a couple days, but slid open the door to fire up the grill and walked right into a spiderweb strung at face height accross the doorframe. Shitty, but not the end of the world right? Wrong. It wasnt a spider web, it was a spider web with a nest and that nest exploded onto my face and chest with a million teeny tiny spiders. I freaked out again and stripped down to my undies, ran over to the hose and sprayed myself down while my wife turned the doorframe area and my clothes pile into a hazmat superfund site with poison spray.

[MakersTeleMark]

Surprise insect infestations. I dont particularly like insects, but one or two dont really bother me and ill just kill them no problem. But large amounts of insects in a small place freak me out.


When i was living in my condo i noticed ants coming out of a light fixture in the ceiling so i hopped up on a stool and unscrewed the fixture so i could spray some poison up there. As soon as i pulled the fixture off an ant nest fell down on my face. Apparently some ants are attracted to electrical current so its not and uncommon place for nests. Well at first i though it was just a shitton of sawdust from termites eating wood or something, but then all the sawdust started moving on me... and i freaked the fuck out.

Next story is i hadnt walked outside onto my back porch in a couple days, but slid open the door to fire up the grill and walked right into a spiderweb strung at face height accross the doorframe. Shitty, but not the end of the world right? Wrong. It wasnt a spider web, it was a spider web with a nest and that nest exploded onto my face and chest with a million teeny tiny spiders. I freaked out again and stripped down to my undies, ran over to the hose and sprayed myself down while my wife turned the doorframe area and my clothes pile into a hazmat superfund site with poison spray.

Did you get off on it? Bad pun, sorry, had to.

[riser4]

This is a decent necrobump. Solid work, Buzz.

[The Reverend Floater]

Fucking heights.

Going on the chairlifts tomorrow. Besides eating a fat gummy, any tips and tricks to make the ride up a bit less uncomfortable?

There's truth to the "don't look down" thing. I have a fear of heights...I get very uncomfortable near the edge of buildings, etc. That said, I also used to rock climb and even did multi pitch routes, hundreds of feet off the ground. I was fine as long as I didn't look down until I was repelling, which didn't bother me for some reason. But if I stopped and really stared below, it wasn't good.

Maybe just keep your eyes two lift towers ahead at all times?

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[MagnificentUnicorn]

Sit tall in the saddle, hold your head up high, keep your eyes fixed where the trail meets the sky, and live your life like you ain’t afraid to die and don’t be scared, just enjoy your ride


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[Bunion 2020]

Mostly recent because I used to never think about it but.

Being lower on the food chain than the very tip top, especially when swimming in the ocean.

Getting eaten by a shark.

[riser4]

Illinois Nazis.

[Meadow Skipper]

Snakes. Snakes scare the fuck out of me. I’ve tried to be reasonable about the fuckers but I can’t. Near-panic mode cuts in.

[old goat]

Living too long scares me.

[Buzzworthy]

Living too long scares me.

Same.

Closing eyes before tower one and opening last tower with good conversation is the ticket.
I opened up once and got that quesy feeling. Didn’t do that again. What a phucking phantastic day up at Powder Mountain. I forgot how special that terrain is.

Thank you good people. Y’all rock.

[ötzi]

Surprise insect infestations. I dont particularly like insects, but one or two dont really bother me and ill just kill them no problem. But large amounts of insects in a small place freak me out.

My wife and I went to a restaurant, she got chowder. They gave her a bag of oyster crackers, she dumped them on the chowder, ground some pepper on it, and started eating. I'm sitting across from her, we're talking, and I blurt out, "Your pepper is moving." I had seriously considered that I might be having a flashback or breakdown of some sort, but no, the pepper was moving, so I blurted it out.

Turns out the crackers were absolutely infested with ants. And she had eaten a bunch of them, They were living in their little cracker dreamworld and all off a sudden their cracker houses were cracker boats on a boiling hot sea so they had climbed up on top of their crackers and they were madly waving for help.

It didn't turn out well for them. And my wife has never eaten another oyster cracker. But that's fine, more for me. I mean, what are the odds it'll happen again?

[PB]

Living too long scares me.

DAMMIT

I'm not sleeping tonight.

Thanks.

Follow up: having the conversation with my wife regarding not wanting to linger scares the shit out of me. I've been avoiding it for many years. She's of the opinion that heroic measures are warranted, although to be fair, as she's aged, she's softening on that stance.