What Scares You?

dissention · #1 09-24-2005, 11:30 PM

Some of the things I'm petrified of:

Share some of yours!

irishgrl · #2 09-24-2005, 11:33 PM

Im with ya on the needles, HATE the things...
spiders (I once had a nightmare that I was in a pool underwater, and the surface of the water was LOADED with spiders of all types/sizes. I didnt want to come up for air....)
heights (Im not exactly a thrill seeker, keep my feet on terra firma thank you!)

oh and Monkey boy in the Oval Office. THAT scares me plenty.

strandinthewind · #3 09-24-2005, 11:36 PM

I gave my beloved Scottie MiMi the Sheep injections daily and an bag or so of lactated ringers every other day or so for like three years. So needles do not bother me that much. An IV on me is initially horrifying, but I get over it quickly.

The thing that terrifies me mostly and thankfully not that often anymore is going to sleep. When I was a kid, I just would not sleep. I am mostly past it. But, after seeing that horrifying bunny in Donnie Darko, I may not sleep for fear of awakening and it or something more horrifying being in the room.

LongBlackScarf · #4 09-24-2005, 11:38 PM

I am scared of:

The depth of my grief when my mother dies

Flying

Deep Water

Being buried alive

Moths and any bugs larger than ladybugs.

Being found dead in an embarrassing position. For example, falling off the toilet after having died of a heart attack

Natural Disasters

Terrorists

Rent increases

Not being able to eat any of my favorite foods anymore due to peri-menopause and a slow metabolism.

Glittermoondust · #5 09-24-2005, 11:41 PM

Heights.....
Deep water.....
Elevators... but I will still go on one.......
Death

irishgrl · #6 09-24-2005, 11:43 PM

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Originally Posted by LongBlackScarf

Not being able to eat any of my favorite foods anymore due to peri-menopause and a slow metabolism.

well, I eat them anyway. I figure I'll never be 18 again and my man magnet days are long gone (Thank GAWD!) so I please myself now. I like things much better this way.

dissention · #7 09-24-2005, 11:44 PM

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Im with ya on the needles, HATE the things...

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Originally Posted by strandinthewind

I gave my beloved Scottie MiMi the Sheep injections daily and an bag or so of lactated ringers every other day or so for like three years. So needles do not bother me that much. An IV on me is initially horrifying, but I get over it quickly.

Needles make me cry. I don't like the idea of someone having control over me by sticking a sharp object into my person. Get a needle near me and I'll knock you out.

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Being found dead in an embarrassing position. For example, falling off the toilet after having died of a heart attack

Me, too. Or being found wearing dirty underwear, that scares me. When I was a kid, my mother used to tell me to change my undies every day because if I ever got into some sort of accident and had to go to the hospital, they'd be disgusted if my underwear was dirty. Besides for sanitary reasons, that's a big part of why I change my underwear.

heyjupiter678 · #8 09-24-2005, 11:46 PM

I get totally freaked out by deep water and the thought of a house fire.

Oh, and clowns.

Glittermoondust · #9 09-24-2005, 11:48 PM

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Originally Posted by heyjupiter678

I get totally freaked out by deep water and the thought of a house fire.

Oh, and clowns.

I don't get totally freaked by clowns but I agree--they are kind of creepy!!

And the fire thing--ditto!

dissention · #10 09-24-2005, 11:51 PM

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Originally Posted by heyjupiter678

Oh, and clowns.

Ever since Stephen King's It, babe. I don't care if it's our favorite Sweet Transvestite under all that clown make-up, he officially made me scared ****less of clowns.

strandinthewind · #11 09-24-2005, 11:52 PM

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Originally Posted by LongBlackScarf

. . . Flying . . . .

Me too, but I do it almost weekly - so I just have to get over it

Also, whenever I hear this question of what I fear, I always think of Aragorn asking Eomer in LOTR:

"All your words are but to say: you are a woman, and your part is in the house. But when the men have died in battle and honour, you have leave to be burned in the house, for the men will need it no more. But I am of the House of Eorl and not a serving-woman. I can ride and wield blade, and I do not fear either pain or death."

"What do you fear, lady?" he asked.

"A cage," she said. "To stay behind bars, until use and old age accept them, and all chance of doing great deeds is gone beyond recall or desire."

Then Aragorn brilliantly says with white hot passion burning in his eyes and though he loves a half she-elf:

"You're the daughter of kings. A shield maiden of Rohan. I do not think that will be your fate."

I almost fainted in the movie theatre when I saw/felt that scene

LongBlackScarf · #12 09-24-2005, 11:53 PM

Oh yes. CLOWNS. Do I ever hate those damned things! What child in his or her right mind doesn't go running and screaming from a friggin' CLOWN?!

heyjupiter678 · #13 09-25-2005, 12:12 AM

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Originally Posted by dissention

Ever since Stephen King's It, babe. I don't care if it's our favorite Sweet Transvestite under all that clown make-up, he officially made me scared ****less of clowns.

I was a wreck for a week after seeing that movie. Absolutely traumatized.

Just the other day, I was flipping through the channels and stopped on A&E like I always do. The first thing that came on the screen was the picture of John Wayne Gacy dressed as a clown, and my heart started pounding. I couldn't turn it fast enough. :shudder:

I cannot deal with clowns, man.

strandinthewind · #14 09-25-2005, 12:14 AM

LOL - I have done clowning before - hey it was like $100 a gig

dissention · #15 09-25-2005, 12:16 AM

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Originally Posted by heyjupiter678

I was a wreck for a week after seeing that movie. Absolutely traumatized.

Just the other day, I was flipping through the channels and stopped on A&E like I always do. The first thing that came on the screen was the picture of John Wayne Gacy dressed as a clown, and my heart started pounding. I couldn't turn it fast enough. :shudder:

I cannot deal with clowns, man.

You poor thing.

I tried watching Gacy's episode of Biography once and had nightmares. I can take Richard Speck, I can take Charlie Manson, and I can take Jim Jones...but I cannot take Gacy and it's because of those clown pics. That one of him holding balloons is seared into my brain for eternity.

And I just heard a loud noise outside my office window that scared the **** out of me. The clowns are coming now, I just know it.