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What's your biggest fear?
Topic Started: Nov 21 2014, 11:41 AM (296 Views)
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Tallica
Nov 21 2014, 09:42 PM
I am scared shitless of heights and anything that requires me to hope I don't die. This includes Roller Coasters, skydiving, bungie jumping, going more than 2 steps up a ladder without a wall next to me.

I'm actually pretty scared by bees, wasps, and anything that stings. Snakes and spiders don't bother me as long as I'm prepared for it. I'll hold a tarantula or python, but if I stumble on a simple garden snake I'd probably shit myself.

Those are things I'm afraid of, but I don't fear them. I'm not afraid I'll run into some bees, but I'm afraid if I do. I just do my best to avoid them. I did go through a six month stint when I was a young boy when I had a real fear of tornados. I think I was in like 2nd grade. The tornado sirens went off in our little town and we had to do our tonrado drill in the halls at my catholic school. All the nuns had us saying prayers while we were cowering in the halls. It was terrifying. Afterwards I wouldn't go outside on sunny days because I was afraid a tornado would come out of nowhere. It was really strange to feel that way. Lasted a few months and then I kind of flipped it by just getting really interested in storms and weather and dove into reading as much as i could until my fear dissolved.
Have you ever gone outdoors and has anyone ever called you "bubble boy"?
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Nov 21 2014, 09:11 PM
Is your family being hurt even really a fear? I mean, that's like saying your biggest fear is having your eyeballs stabbed out. I think when it's something that nobody wants to happen across the board it falls under common sense more than fear.
I agree with Ash on this one. Lets take this one off the table because what I think Split intended is what is your own "personal" greatest fear. What makes your bowels turn to water and gurgle? We all have something deep down whether we admit it or not.
Edited by Cbear, Nov 22 2014, 12:49 AM.
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Ash, before you go to the Dentist, have you talked to the receptionist and shared your fear? If not, you should. Let them warn the dentist so he knows to treat you accordingly. There are sedation dentistries where they knock you out and that may be an option. Nitrous may also help in your case. How about a valium?--they can do a lot more than just give you a numbing shot. Talk to the dentist office beforehand and then again when you go in. Just them that you are ready to go Taxi Driver on them if they don't put you into happy land and they can treat you from there.

I dislike dentists and sound and vibration of the drill, not really the pain. I just go to my zen state. Ive had 3 crowns done and its never fun but its pretty routine too.
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These things didn't hit me until later in life but heights and tight, closed in places give me the willies now. I posted on the old board about balance issues and escalators making me feel like I could fall anytime. I don't know if its an inner ear issue but I do have continual problems with my right ear having to have tubes put in. I was never afraid of heights till 10-15 years ago. Nothing happened, I never fell or anything. Ive stood on the edge of the Grand Canyon and looked down, walked pipelines, climbed high places.......but now just the thought of that gives me heartburn. I think the balance issue is whats got me fucked up on that. Claustrophobia--its not bad but Im less comfortable than I used to be. Caves and tight spots never bothered me but now I look at it and think twice.

Nothing in nature bothers me in the least; Ive spent a lifetime out there and enjoy it.

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I had a close friend commit suicide 3 years ago, so ever since then I've always been afraid of losing another friend, especially at a young[ish] age like this. I'm the one who's always telling people to text me when they get home after we've had a night out drinking or if they've got a lot drive in crappy weather, and I regularly offer to be someone's DD. I don't pry into others' personal lives unless I'm practically best friends with them, but if I know someone's going through a rough patch, I do what I can to cheer them up, whether it's hanging out for a night to get their mind off of what's bothering them, sending them a funny text/picture, even just telling them that if they want to talk, I'm all ears.

For something more crippling, closer to a phobia, I'm like Ash in that I can become disoriented quite easily with heights. That said, I've learned to cope with it over the last few years. It's basically just me not thinking about it and not looking down, and I'm good to go. If I feel I have a secure handhold or foothold, you could put me 100 feet in the air and I'd be okay.

That said...rollercoasters. Good God, rollcoasters or just about any other kind of hardcore, lofty thrill ride terrifies the ever-loving hell out of me. If there ever comes a day when I step foot back into a theme park, the only way I'm going on a big like that is if I'm hammered. It's a fear I'd really like to overcome, though, because other than that I feel I'm a very adventurous person and I find appeal in dare devil situations.

The other one is house centipedes, those fast-as-fuck little bastards with a million legs. Get one within 5 feet of me and I turn into a 4 year old girl.
Edited by Jeff Mondo, Nov 22 2014, 01:43 AM.
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Good stuff, fellas. It's hard to let down the defenses sometimes and not be so macho.

Ash, I know exactly what you mean about how ridiculous it feels when you're typing this stuff and shaking your head at how it could possibly even be real. But when the situation is actually upon you, or it's getting close to being time, that shit is real all right. It's an insane dose of terror that makes no sense. What that fuck is that about? Dunno. But it happens.

Won't let it control me though.
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'Ash's Perfect Day'

6 a.m. go down to laundry room to find clothes taken out of the dryer and thrown on the floor.

8 a.m. Checks mma news to find out Dana has re-hired Shell Sonnen and is giving him an immediate title shot at Wiedman.

10 a.m. cuts on tv and the only channels he gets are playing WWE and TNA programming.

Noon- girlfriend cooks meatloaf and forces him to eat it. Breaks tooth.

1 p.m. Walks outside to go to dentist and blinding sunlight sends him fleeing back inside.

2 p.m. Wrapped in blanket and wearing two pair of sunglasses and an old ladys flowery hat, he ventures back out into the sun to go to the dentist.

2:30 p.m. arrives at dentists office which is on the 19th floor. The elevator is broken and he takes the stairs. The handrails are missing from the 15th floor on up so inches along the wall trying to avoid the void.

3-4 p.m. Dentist pulls wrong tooth. Blanket is stolen while in the dentist chair so Ash must run home with only 2 pairs of sunglasses and a ladys flowered hat to protect him from the blistering afternoon sun.

5 p.m. Ash arrives back home only to find his ex-girlfriend on his front step drunker than Cooder Brown and sporting massive Herpes sores all over her mouth. She wants to make up.

5:01 p.m. Ash's current girlfriend meets him at the door asking who the homeless, diseased person he was talking to is; then informs him its meatloaf again for dinner and more laundry to be done afterwards.

and.......scene.

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Nov 22 2014, 11:15 PM
'Ash's Perfect Day'

6 a.m. go down to laundry room to find clothes taken out of the dryer and thrown on the floor.

8 a.m. Checks mma news to find out Dana has re-hired Shell Sonnen and is giving him an immediate title shot at Wiedman.

10 a.m. cuts on tv and the only channels he gets are playing WWE and TNA programming.

Noon- girlfriend cooks meatloaf and forces him to eat it. Breaks tooth.

1 p.m. Walks outside to go to dentist and blinding sunlight sends him fleeing back inside.

2 p.m. Wrapped in blanket and wearing two pair of sunglasses and an old ladys flowery hat, he ventures back out into the sun to go to the dentist.

2:30 p.m. arrives at dentists office which is on the 19th floor. The elevator is broken and he takes the stairs. The handrails are missing from the 15th floor on up so inches along the wall trying to avoid the void.

3-4 p.m. Dentist pulls wrong tooth. Blanket is stolen while in the dentist chair so Ash must run home with only 2 pairs of sunglasses and a ladys flowered hat to protect him from the blistering afternoon sun.

5 p.m. Ash arrives back home only to find his ex-girlfriend on his front step drunker than Cooder Brown and sporting massive Herpes sores all over her mouth. She wants to make up.

5:01 p.m. Ash's current girlfriend meets him at the door asking who the homeless, diseased person he was talking to is; then informs him its meatloaf again for dinner and more laundry to be done afterwards.

and.......scene.


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Nov 22 2014, 11:21 PM
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Nov 22 2014, 11:15 PM
'Ash's Perfect Day'

6 a.m. go down to laundry room to find clothes taken out of the dryer and thrown on the floor.

8 a.m. Checks mma news to find out Dana has re-hired Shell Sonnen and is giving him an immediate title shot at Wiedman.

10 a.m. cuts on tv and the only channels he gets are playing WWE and TNA programming.

Noon- girlfriend cooks meatloaf and forces him to eat it. Breaks tooth.

1 p.m. Walks outside to go to dentist and blinding sunlight sends him fleeing back inside.

2 p.m. Wrapped in blanket and wearing two pair of sunglasses and an old ladys flowery hat, he ventures back out into the sun to go to the dentist.

2:30 p.m. arrives at dentists office which is on the 19th floor. The elevator is broken and he takes the stairs. The handrails are missing from the 15th floor on up so inches along the wall trying to avoid the void.

3-4 p.m. Dentist pulls wrong tooth. Blanket is stolen while in the dentist chair so Ash must run home with only 2 pairs of sunglasses and a ladys flowered hat to protect him from the blistering afternoon sun.

5 p.m. Ash arrives back home only to find his ex-girlfriend on his front step drunker than Cooder Brown and sporting massive Herpes sores all over her mouth. She wants to make up.

5:01 p.m. Ash's current girlfriend meets him at the door asking who the homeless, diseased person he was talking to is; then informs him its meatloaf again for dinner and more laundry to be done afterwards.

and.......scene.


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Not at all. And Im sure Ash will laugh and take it as the good natured humor it was intended to be. Do you have any idea how hard it is to work meatloaf into threads? This shit isn't easy.

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Not sure I really have a huge fear.

I'm not great with heights, as in I don't like standing at the ledge of a high building, or won't lean over the ledge if I'm front row upper deck at a sporting event/concert. But I'm fine with flying. I guess as long as I'm enclosed and there's no chance I could fall it doesn't bother me.

I've also never enjoyed public speaking. Definitely get nervous and I guess scared. Unfortunately I have to do it from time to time at work. I think it's like anything, it gets easier the more you do it. Also, if I really know what I'm talking about it's definitely less scary than when you're not sure if you're going to get a question you're unsure of how to handle.
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Nov 22 2014, 11:15 PM
'Ash's Perfect Day'

6 a.m. go down to laundry room to find clothes taken out of the dryer and thrown on the floor.

8 a.m. Checks mma news to find out Dana has re-hired Shell Sonnen and is giving him an immediate title shot at Wiedman.

10 a.m. cuts on tv and the only channels he gets are playing WWE and TNA programming.

Noon- girlfriend cooks meatloaf and forces him to eat it. Breaks tooth.

1 p.m. Walks outside to go to dentist and blinding sunlight sends him fleeing back inside.

2 p.m. Wrapped in blanket and wearing two pair of sunglasses and an old ladys flowery hat, he ventures back out into the sun to go to the dentist.

2:30 p.m. arrives at dentists office which is on the 19th floor. The elevator is broken and he takes the stairs. The handrails are missing from the 15th floor on up so inches along the wall trying to avoid the void.

3-4 p.m. Dentist pulls wrong tooth. Blanket is stolen while in the dentist chair so Ash must run home with only 2 pairs of sunglasses and a ladys flowered hat to protect him from the blistering afternoon sun.

5 p.m. Ash arrives back home only to find his ex-girlfriend on his front step drunker than Cooder Brown and sporting massive Herpes sores all over her mouth. She wants to make up.

5:01 p.m. Ash's current girlfriend meets him at the door asking who the homeless, diseased person he was talking to is; then informs him its meatloaf again for dinner and more laundry to be done afterwards.

and.......scene.



To be fair to me.... I think that's a bad day by anyone's standard!
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Nov 22 2014, 11:44 PM
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Nov 22 2014, 11:15 PM
'Ash's Perfect Day'

6 a.m. go down to laundry room to find clothes taken out of the dryer and thrown on the floor.

8 a.m. Checks mma news to find out Dana has re-hired Shell Sonnen and is giving him an immediate title shot at Wiedman.

10 a.m. cuts on tv and the only channels he gets are playing WWE and TNA programming.

Noon- girlfriend cooks meatloaf and forces him to eat it. Breaks tooth.

1 p.m. Walks outside to go to dentist and blinding sunlight sends him fleeing back inside.

2 p.m. Wrapped in blanket and wearing two pair of sunglasses and an old ladys flowery hat, he ventures back out into the sun to go to the dentist.

2:30 p.m. arrives at dentists office which is on the 19th floor. The elevator is broken and he takes the stairs. The handrails are missing from the 15th floor on up so inches along the wall trying to avoid the void.

3-4 p.m. Dentist pulls wrong tooth. Blanket is stolen while in the dentist chair so Ash must run home with only 2 pairs of sunglasses and a ladys flowered hat to protect him from the blistering afternoon sun.

5 p.m. Ash arrives back home only to find his ex-girlfriend on his front step drunker than Cooder Brown and sporting massive Herpes sores all over her mouth. She wants to make up.

5:01 p.m. Ash's current girlfriend meets him at the door asking who the homeless, diseased person he was talking to is; then informs him its meatloaf again for dinner and more laundry to be done afterwards.

and.......scene.



To be fair to me.... I think that's a bad day by anyone's standard!
I would say that is the drizzling shits for anyones day. I even gave myself the willies typing the part about the stairwell with the missing railing. ......shivers......
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wait, i come back from NOLA and i see ashton and old cb getting along. WTF happened while i was gone?? :D
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dhk1980
Nov 23 2014, 02:29 AM
wait, i come back from NOLA and i see ashton and old cb getting along. WTF happened while i was gone?? :D
Did you enjoy all the buttsex?
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i only saw one gay strip club. didn't notice a gay bar. very disappointed. :p
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