Some things you guys are scared of/fear

[Brooklyn Knight]

Oh, I forgot one.

We put our lives on the line or we trust our doctors to take good care of us and it's nothing more than a mirage.

You have doctors either willing to take the extra sep to ensure your well-being, doctors going off the record, and doctors who doin't give a flying....

And we're supposedly fine by this, or we don't care. How many more need to end up 6 feet under before we realize we are being lead astray?

 

[Ave Maria]

I am terrified of snakes. I was almost bitten by one that I assume was poisonous when I was younger. I live in an area where Copperhead snakes and Cottonmouth (Water Moccasin) snakes live and I have always lived here. Anyway, I was in the woods one time and all of a sudden I come upon a snake. It raised its head up and opened its mouth. I could see fangs. Needless to say, I backed up slowly and ran faster than I have ever ran before.

 

[sylverpiano]

I dislike being touched by strangers. I am also a germophobe which leads me to be a compulsive hand washer.

 

[Wolseley]

Flying, stinging insects.

My parents' place was absolutely loaded with those nasty little brown paper wasps. When I was about sixteen, one got down the back of my shirt and nailed me 21 times---my mother counted the welts. (Good thing I wasn't allergic or I'd have been a dead duck.)

Ever since, if something that flies and stings gets anywhere near me, I spazz. Hornets, wasps, bees, I don't care: everything stops until that little sucker is dead, and I don't care how.

(shudder) I hate 'em.

Another thing that gives me the willies is deep water. I don't mind being close to it, as long as I'm not in it. When we go to the beach in the summer, I never go in past my waist; and if the lake (this would be Lake Michigan) is wavy, I don't even go in that far. Plus, the Great Lakes are prone to nifty stuff like violent rip tides that can suck you out a half-mile before you even know what's going on; the heck with that. I'll keep my feet on terra firma, thanks, and the mo' firma, the less terra.

Then there's unexpected noises, gunfire, screams, that sort of stuff that sends me into a shaking tailspin, but that's the PTSD that the shrinks at Veteran's Affairs keep telling me about.

 

[sea oat]

Flying, stinging insects.

My parents' place was absolutely loaded with those nasty little brown paper wasps. When I was about sixteen, one got down the back of my shirt and nailed me 21 times---my mother counted the welts. (Good thing I wasn't allergic or I'd have been a dead duck.)

Ever since, if something that flies and stings gets anywhere near me, I spazz. Hornets, wasps, bees, I don't care: everything stops until that little sucker is dead, and I don't care how.

Oooooh, good one. I forgot about those. Not a fan of stinging insects.

I had a close call one time when I was about 13. For a while, at the church I was attending, we had to reach Sunday school class through a back door of the church. One morning, I opened the door, and a small swarm of wasps swooped down on me, and aggressively started stinging my ponytail. Why they stung my ponytail, and not my skull or neck? I really really really don't know, but I am soooooo glad I dodged that bullet.

 

[AMDG]

I dislike being touched by strangers. I am also a germophobe which leads me to be a compulsive hand washer.

Sort of reminds me of a time (it was during flu season if that makes any more sense) when right after the "kiss of peace" where every in the congregation "glad hands" I smelled this rather pungent odor. When I looked over, there was my husband putting hand sanitizer on. (BTW our parish actually provides hand sanitizers at the doors.)

 

[sylverpiano]

Sort of reminds me of a time (it was during flu season if that makes any more sense) when right after the "kiss of peace" where every in the congregation "glad hands" I smelled this rather pungent odor. When I looked over, there was my husband putting hand sanitizer on. (BTW our parish actually provides hand sanitizers at the doors.)

I have a difficult time during the Peace greeting at Mass.

 

[Forge3]

Calm down I wear the crown. As a philosoper and clown. His Word gets around in surround sound just to astound. I am like rain on the desert mound. I am His Word oh little bird.

 

[Azureknight 773]

Before, I used to be afraid of ghosts, vampires and other monsters especially demons and of course, Darkness itself... Not until there came a greater fear that should be marred by awe which is also courage's King... God Himself. Too scary yet too badass beyond any question who is full of love, hope and all that is good. The Lord Himself is my Strength whom I fear the most.

Satan and his cohorts, meh! They are just a grain of sand in the vastness of the universe in God's place of supremacy.

 

[Wolseley]

Sort of reminds me of a time (it was during flu season if that makes any more sense) when right after the "kiss of peace" where every in the congregation "glad hands" I smelled this rather pungent odor. When I looked over, there was my husband putting hand sanitizer on. (BTW our parish actually provides hand sanitizers at the doors.)

I carry a small squirt bottle of hand sanitizer at all times during the cold and flu season. I have an OD vest with all sorts of military and veteran's patches all over it, and it has about eighteen million pockets; I have hand sanitizer in one, cell phone in another, extra handkerchief in another, notebook and pen in another, and so on down the line.

Sort of like having a purse, except that it's more organized.

Paul Petersen - "She Can't Find Her Keys" - YouTube

 

[Antigone]

Spiders. Ugh.

I actually think they're fascinating and I'm willing to get quite close to see them.

And then they start moving and I FREAK OUT. SERIOUSLY.

I'm fine with mice and rats. I used to have them as pets. Rats make brilliant pets.

I also don't like swimming in the ocean on the off chance of swimming into a jellyfish. Stinging or not, they creep me out. They're quite beautiful in an aquarium but they need to stay out of my ocean.

Venus flytraps freak me out too, but that's more the idea than the actual plant. I don't mind their presence in a room but if it were me I'd chuck them all out.

 

[Wolseley]

My sister has a problem with bridges, especially high bridges. We went over the Mackinac Bridge between Upper and Lower Michigan one year on a family trip (a five-mile stretch), and she spent the whole way across on the floor of the car with her eyes closed.

 

[Antigone]

My sister has a problem with bridges, especially high bridges. We went over the Mackinac Bridge between Upper and Lower Michigan one year on a family trip (a five-mile stretch), and she spent the whole way across on the floor of the car with her eyes closed.

Awesome.

The bridge, I mean. Not so much your sister's phobia.

I've been wanting to go traverse the Millau Viaduct for a while now, but I've never been quite near enough to warrant a day trip.

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[Wolseley]

Awesome.

The bridge, I mean. Not so much your sister's phobia.

I've been wanting to go traverse the Millau Viaduct for a while now, but I've never been quite near enough to warrant a day trip.

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Whoa; that's quite a bridge, too.

The Chinese are good at building high, long bridges; you couldn't get me on this one for love nor money, and I don't have a bridge phobia:

 

[AMDG]

My sister has a problem with bridges, especially high bridges. We went over the Mackinac Bridge between Upper and Lower Michigan one year on a family trip (a five-mile stretch), and she spent the whole way across on the floor of the car with her eyes closed.

I was driving across a bridge (bringing my daughter to an interview) when I first realized that I had a fear of heights. (I feel sorta bad because when she didn't get the job, I ended up feeling relief that I wouldn't be asked to drive over the bridge again.) So I can sympathize with your sister.

 

[Dylan Michael]

Whoa; that's quite a bridge, too.

The Chinese are good at building high, long bridges; you couldn't get me on this one for love nor money, and I don't have a bridge phobia:

We have the Sunshine Skyway

It doesn't look that bad in the photo, but it seems tall when you drive on it. Plus there was the time back in the 80s when a Barge slammed into one of the pylons and it collapsed, but it was so foggy, nobody could see that it was collapsed, and a great number of people just drove into the water.

The worst bridge for me is the Howard Frankland that cuts across Tampa Bay from Tampa to St. Petersburg. It's not too bad, except for the fact that it seems every time I drive across it, it's storming and trafic looks like this, but at 75+ MPH

The Seven-Mile Bridge in the Florida Keys is kinda pretty.

 

[Fantine]

As my husband and I get older, I fear developing certain illnesses, particularly Alzheimer's.

I'm blessed with good heredity--two parents who lived long, healthy lives, one into his 90's, with good mental health. Three grandparents who did the same (the fourth died in her 50's).

My hubby's parents were in perfect mental health when they died (in their 70's). His one grandma lived to her late 80's in perfect mental health...he did have one grandmother who developed dementia at about age 70.

I recognize that I have slowed down a little when I go on long hikes with my adult children...and I accept that.

But losing what makes me "me," or seeing that happen to my husband, would be very frightening.

I have a dear friend in her 70's right now who is going through it, and it's heartbreaking for all of us who love her (and for her, certainly.)

 

[AMDG]

We have the Sunshine Skyway

It doesn't look that bad in the photo, but it seems tall when you drive on it. Plus there was the time back in the 80s when a Barge slammed into one of the pylons and it collapsed, but it was so foggy, nobody could see that it was collapsed, and a great number of people just drove into the water.

The worst bridge for me is the Howard Frankland that cuts across Tampa Bay from Tampa to St. Petersburg. It's not too bad, except for the fact that it seems every time I drive across it, it's storming and trafic looks like this, but at 75+ MPH

The Seven-Mile Bridge in the Florida Keys is kinda pretty.

Pretty or not. I don't think those are for me. Think I too would vote for terra firma.

 

[Ave Maria]

Bridges are another thing give me the "willy nillies" as some people would call it. lol

 

[gurneyhalleck1]

What would terrify and depress and sicken me the most? As a hardcore, devout San Francisco Giants fan, this would possibly send me to the hospital with a need for serious depression meds...if it were updated to 2013, for example...but luckily my orange and black own these dudes