What are your FEARS ?

Ok guys, what are your fears.
Mine happens to be heights. I can drive on the GW bridge, go on elevators, go on escalators ect.. However, i have a real tough time on ladders and can Never go on a roller coaster. That is my fear.
I also dont like going near pit bulls or large dogs. Then again, thats a logical fear.

I see you call your self crash no wonder.

I don't feel safe standing on the top of a step stool. So I let my wife do it but I am there just in case she slips.

Until recently this winter I felt unsafe walking on snow and ice I had a balance problem because of my leg injury good news it's getting better. I am building up my leg strength now.

I was attacked by a stray dog as a young kid. So now if I see one. It better give me a lot of room or they will get hurt.

Other then that nothing.

I have two fears. One is having a heart attack. Now than I am older (63) every time I feel any type of a sensation in my chest or arms, I think I'm having one. I don't go to the Doctor or anything but I do think about it. I am not overweigt, all my vitals are fine but I start to worry.
The other is fear of flying. Well not really flying, but crashing. I wish the Pilot would make a lot of announcement so that way I will know everything is OK. I always keep my eye on the Stewardess to see what they are up to. That relaxes me. I also pray and bless myself on take off and landings.

That I get a phone call from my husband who tells me he is traveling with a bus load full of hot lesbian cheerleaders and tells me he's never coming home

I'm still afraid of the dark. My worst fears are of choking or not being able to help someone who is choking. Drowning is another fear. Even though I am a strong swimmer I had many close calls being too far out in the ocean bodysurfing or bogey boarding. I still bogey board lol. Every other fear I ever had already came true.

Losing my sassiness, enthusiasm, and sense of humor!

Ha ha ha!! Don't ya just hate that fear?

I am afraid of heights tho I'm not too fearful in an airplane, cause it's enclosed (I guess). Yet, standing on a balcony several stories up, or some carnival rides. I remember seeing the movie Cliffhanger and my stomach got oozy just watching some scenes. My daughter always wanted to to skydiving. I told her don't you dare tell me before you go or I won't sleep at night. I told her to tell me AFTER it's over. Well, last week she tells me she jump outta the freaking airplane. She loved it. I say she's nuts.

I have an odd fear of low flying birds as well. I hate when they fly overhead. Don't ask me why. One time I took my brother who was visiting Cali to Universal Studios. We went to a outside show. At the very end they open a chute and a bunch of birds flew out in audience. I was covering my head screaming and he was cracking up. Didn't see that coming.

TIS

Space and the open ocean

I can definitely see how a lot of ppl are afraid of heights. I do not mind climbing up but I am a little fearful of climbing back DOWN the stairs. As kids going through tunnels or over bridges was the FUN part of driving around in the car. So I only have positive memories.

Wow! Your daughter is brave!
My husband got his helicopters license and I went up with him. He was flying a tiny helicopter R-22 on a windy day which was not good so we had to turn around to head back to Long Beach Airport. I did take a great pic of the harbor.

TIS - You must have watched the movie The Birds one too many times . Your story about Universal Studios is so funny.

Clowns. I do not like clowns. One time at Knotts Scary Farm I went into a haunted house with nothing but SCARY FREAKY CLOWNS. I was shitting my pants. It terrified me.

I think my biggest fear would be opening up the fridge and not seeing any Beer in it.

LoL

For real though I would have to say Guns, I become very uncomfortable around Guns.

I even own several and know how to use them but do not handle them much and hope to never have the need to do so.

What do you mean? Like the fear of UNKNOWN?

I gotta say, mine would also be heights. I am fine on planes, although i do get motion sickness quite easily. Definitely heights. No amusement parks for me.

Mine are as follows:
Flying. I hate it! In fact when I fly to Vegas I make sure the bar on the plane is stocked!

I have had a childhood fear forever of being stabbed in the back. So while I sleep, no matter the weather, if I sleep on my tummy there is a blanket over my back. I'm not sure how a blanket would protect me from a knife wielding mad man...but so be it, LOL

I hate the ocean though. I once was sleepwalking and fell off a break wall (wtf are they called again? Lol) and there were sea urchins all over the rocks. You could see them. We had a bar there and I saw a lady wince in pain watching those needles be pulled out. Oh...and the islander who told me to get out of the water due to the barracuda swimming by us. Fuck the ocean!!! Unless I'm on the yacht!

geeeeeeeze, what a bunch of big sissies!!!!

That's a not a so nice a Binnie don't be a weenie.

ok, I have fears too, my biggest,

a very mad woman!! very scary.

I take an aspirin low level dose I pill every day. My doctor just told me to take one when I hit my 60s.

I go to Puerto Rico for a vacation. I take a side trip to St. Thomas. On a small plane The pilot says if anything happens the parachutes are on the back of the seat in front of you.

I am sitting in the front seat no parachute in front of me.

I had a recurring dream for years that I was being chased by the cops. So I jumped from one roof to another to get away. I used to wake up on the floor jumping off my bed broke my toe once doing it.

Like some here..heights. But, open heights. I was a telephone company lineman and splicer. We climbed poles and ladders, but 20-25' was our limit and I was usually secured to the pole or ladder. But don't put me on a ferris wheel - too open and unstable.

A few years ago I drove over the Bay Bridge from Eastern Shore Maryland to Annapolis. It is a freakin' high, steep bridge. I had to fight off the panic attacks.

I'm also a bit claustrophobic. It got worse after 9/11 when I had to hide in a loading dock when tower 2 came down.

I don't like bees either. As a kid I got stung on the wrist and my forearm swelled up and I looked like Popeye.

..for tears.

My deepest fear is not that I am inadequate.

My deepest fear is that I am powerful beyond measure.

well and also sometimes being in water that is dark and murky. And heights. But I still would like to try sky diving one day....

spiders, heights, sharks (great white's) and radical Islam.

Agreed! I once had a Sicilian woman at my door because her son didn't make it home in time for dinner. LOL Everything was fine, I was still invited over for Christmas Dinner.

I spent the last few years taking care of my grandmother as she cancer and dementia just deteriorated into nothing that being said, my greatest fear is getting old not being able to care for myself, cycling through the same conversations with someone.

Getting beheaded alive. There's something extremely fucked up about it. I ain't going out like that, fuck no.

That or having to live the rest of my life locked up in a small chamber while I'm being tortured by the same two songs playing on the radio over and over again: "We Built This City" by Starship and Boston's "More Than A Feeling".

What's the big deal dead is dead who cares how you die.

What's better getting your head chopped off or burned at the stake?

They asked Lou Costello that one time. He said burned at the stake is better. They asked him why he said a hot steak is always better then a cold chop.

Some people used to fear getting buried alive. Then waking up in the ground in a box. If you really hated someone knock him out then put him in the ground still alive.

I can relate to that one, also having to spend your last years in a nursing home, unable to speak because of a stroke.

god, spare me that life.

That I'll be found out.

I've always been afraid that someday, because of some heavy trauma, I'd lose my sanity forever. Schizophrenia is very scary indeed. Or dementia, Alzheimer's, ALS, etc.
I'm somewhat of a hypochondriac, honestly. I'm also horrified of needles, but I've gotten somewhat used to them in my early adult years.

I'm also scared of getting stabbed. Shot too, of course but stabbing terrifies me.. the concept of the sharp, cold knife entering my body and piercing some vital organ is just shudder-worthy. The bullet is a lot more harmful I know, but maybe because I'm so familiar with firearms knifes scare me more?
E.g. I'd be more scared of somebody putting a knife in my throat (which I've had) instead of a gun behind my back, simply because in the latter I doubt he'd pull the trigger while with a knife it's silent and he'd be more likely to at least injure me if he wanted to (out of spite or during a mugging) and less scared of anybody hearing it.

In a way I'm also a little scared of getting married (and divorced) especially with the crazy statistics in the last couple of decades its become somewhat of a joke. Since my father owns a few real estate properties (which he's worked A LOT for) and I'm an only child, I'd be horrified of marrying the wrong person and losing half of them to some gold-digger. Of course there's the prenup but those are always trouble.

Burning to death

Heights (yet I climb poles for a living/work out of a bucket go figure)

Stabbing someone is only scary if you see it. You get stabbed from behind in a fight you think your just getting hit.

I saw a rolling stone show from the 70s last night in SF. Stones made the mistake of hiring Hells Angels for security. They had to keep stopping the show because they kept beating up people.

One black guy pulls out his pistola. Next thing you see was hell Angels converge on him with knives. Next thing you know the black guy was dead.

You said it.

I can only hope if that happens to me someone in my family will me the Randall McMurphy treatment.

Going on any roller coaster would literally give me a heart attack, i just cant do it.

1 min in, just a bare faced excuse as well to get a clip in of one of my favourite films of al time

http://youtu.be/n08mNz9f0FQ

I am surprised that no one has mentioned what has been described as the #1 fear of all, public speaking. I have jumped out of planes but sometimes am not comfortable on a roller coaster. I have scuba dived in a sunken shipwreck , but I get scared before an MRI (Full tube one)

You're right I didn't even think about public speaking. Nowadays, NO JOKE they make kids in kindergarten give an oral report to get them used to speaking in front of a group. Both my kids had to do it. Funny huh.

Asking out somebody you REALLY like... leaning in for that first, kiss, etc. You can be confident all you want, something insignificant will always give you away. lol. I've seen huge bodybuilder guys who almost melt at the thought of having to do this, even past their 20s.

biggest fear, Hillary Clinton elected president!

Tru dat.

"You wanna go for coffee some......"

"No".

Alfanosgirl, I know and this is probably the best thing they could do. We were at an anniversary party recently. We hadn't all been together in many years and we were all asked to get up and tell everyone what we had been doing for the last 30 years. My 10 year old grandson did a great presentation because he has to do it all the time in school

My greatest fear is being BROKE!

I have the strangest fear of HILLS.

....and Bill being VEEP!

BB, I did an MRI with my head in the tube. I was Ok for awhile but on the last cycle I had to recite the Hail Mary to get through it. I almost pressed the button. Creepy shit.

I would be right behind you with the heart attack. I hate heights. Walking on the edge of a roof would scare the shit out of me.

Those are scary, I've done several of them, CT scans too, etc. I'm only in my 20s and I've had my fair share of health issues... I guess I'm just unlucky. It's not the MRI really, we're just hypochondriacs. I'm a major hypochondriac... my anxiety hits the roof, it's completely through the charts whenever I have to deal with a health issues and I might even have some new ones. God help me cause I can't deal with all this crap, my anxiety will kill me.