What is your greatest fear?

[Raiders Army]

I know some people have a fear of snakes, sharks, spiders, the dark, etc. What is your greatest fear?

[Eaglesfan27]

A painful death.

[LoneStarGirl]

Seeing death coming but not being able to do anything about it.

[cartman]

Little pink Christina Aguilera monsters

http://content.answers.com/main/content/wp/en/thumb/c/c4/180px-Pink_Christina_Aguilera_Monster.JPG

[colt45]

Not doing anything with my life and not being able to share it with loved ones. Oh, and Dave Coulier.

http://www.coral-lab.org/~arm1/images/dave-coulier.png

[TroyF]

Four of a kind when I have a full house.

As that wasn't on the list, I picked heights. It's a special type of heights though. I can handle and even like flying, roller coasters and things like that.

Get me up on a ladder or a short railing though and I get nervous really easily. I get dizzy and always feel as though the end is near.

[jeff061]

Never really thought of it. Out of those maybe heights, but it's hardly debilitating, just makes me dizzy. Like TroyF, doesn't apply when I'm strapped into something moving.

[Raiders Army]

I think I'm most scared of having one of my kids die before me. I don't think I could take that kind of pain.

[oliegirl]

Being witness to something bad happening to my husband or child and not being able to do anything to help them.

Besides that, I am terrified of the dark and the monsters that hide under the bed and in closets...I'm completely serious - ask radii

[AlexB]

Seeing death coming but not being able to do anything about it.

What LSG said :frown: (and heights :thud: )

[Senator]

http://www.celebrity-pictures-world.com/pics/d/dana-carvey/dana-carvey-004.jpg

We fear change.

[Tigercat]

I am not scared of water or diving or swiming by any means, but I put drowning just because I hate feeling trapped. I am a personal control freak, and to me drowning would be the ultimate unescapeable enclosure.

Not only am I not afraid of ghosts, I think actually seeing a ghost would be the highlight of my life(not that I think I will ever see one) just because it would make the world an even more wonderous place to be in.

[Bad-example]

Being squashed flat by Tommy Lasorda's ginormous ass. :sumo:

[AlexB]

...Besides that, I am terrified of the dark and the monsters that hide under the bed and in closets...I'm completely serious - ask radii

Haven;t you seen Monsters Inc? They're more scared of you than you are of them ;)

[BuffaloHuskey]

My biggest fear is pissing off Jack Bauer

[Greyroofoo]

I now have these nightmares of waking up during a pitch black night with my heart trembling. Suddenly theres a lightning flash and Al Davis is standing over me......grinning, with a football in one hand and an apparatus too terrible to describe in the other. I start screaming.....................

[finkenst]

Four of a kind when I have a full house.

As that wasn't on the list, I picked heights. It's a special type of heights though. I can handle and even like flying, roller coasters and things like that.

Get me up on a ladder or a short railing though and I get nervous really easily. I get dizzy and always feel as though the end is near.

ayep..

you hit the nail on the head...

[Poli]

Quiksand.

[JonInMiddleGA]

Big stuff? Losing the things that mean the most to me.

Standard phobia type stuff? Heights, although a less standard phobia but still in the phobia family would probably be needles. Those two are pretty close together, but the sharp pointy things probably is the worse of the two at this point. (i.e. I still absolutely hate stuff like Splash Mountain at WDW but I can make myself do it if I feel I just have to. Needles on the other hand require four people to administer to me safely).

[sabotai]

carnies

[Sublime 2]

http://www.clownsmighteatme.com/clown23.jpg

yeah......that hurt just to look up

[Mustang]

Flying.. which is completely stupid and irrational. I've been on alot of flights both domestic and international and never had an issue. Now I get on a plane and I feel like I'm testing fate or something.

Don't have an issue with driving though which is more dangerous but, then again.. I'm in control so.. all just some stupid control issue.

What really sucks is fearing something and you know why.. WTF is up with that?

[Farrah Whitworth-Rahn]

Death. And mrskippy.

[Franklinnoble]

Chuck Norris

[Kodos]

I am petrified of heights. I was cleaning out our gutters last fall, and it was all I could manage to get myself up the ladder. I'm fine in planes and on rollercoasters, but hate the first hill on a coaster. I can do the waterslides too, although the almost vertical plummet ones scare the crap outta me.

[Tom E]

nuclear war

[Kodos]

Nuclear war, it ends nice and quickly. No time to suffer or worry about it. Boom. Dead.

[Rockstar]

Any of my kids dying young. That is the ONLY fear I really have.

[Lorena]

Drowning, hands down. We got on the Skytram at the San Diego Zoo and were thinking what were to happen if the lines broke and we fell. Antmeister said he would rather land in the water and I fiercely disagreed with him. I'd much rather fall on ground than hitting water with the possibility of drowning.

Ugh, just thinking about gives me the shakes :shake:

[Terps]

Dogs.

[Groundhog]

Going blind.

[gottimd]

I think my fear is being in a pitch black room in a glass cage that is suspended high in the air, and there are snakes and spiders in there as well as water is slowly poured into the glass cage. Meanwhile there are these ghostlike creatures that fly around the cage and Al Davis is riding all of them, and my ass hurts from the trout I have in it.

[Lorena]

I think my fear is being in a pitch black room in a glass cage that is suspended high in the air, and there are snakes and spiders in there as well as water is slowly poured into the glass cage. Meanwhile there are these ghostlike creatures that fly around the cage and Al Davis is riding all of them, and my ass hurts from the trout I have in it.

Nice

[Draft Dodger]

apostrophes

[st.cronin]

Teleporting linebackers

[Easy Mac]

Big stuff? Losing the things that mean the most to me.

Standard phobia type stuff? Heights, although a less standard phobia but still in the phobia family would probably be needles. Those two are pretty close together, but the sharp pointy things probably is the worse of the two at this point. (i.e. I still absolutely hate stuff like Splash Mountain at WDW but I can make myself do it if I feel I just have to. Needles on the other hand require four people to administer to me safely).

wow, i'm frightened how similar jon and i are. needles are not allowed near me. scared of heights, but rides and stuff don't bother me. now, getting to the top of some rides, thats torture, but once i'm on the ride, i love heights.

[Greyroofoo]

nuclear war

Dr. Strangelove taught me to love the bomb

[Gallifrey]

I voted for spiders, although the future of the music industry is a close second.

[FrogMan]

I think I'm most scared of having one of my kids die before me. I don't think I could take that kind of pain.

That's got to be the one for me. Seriously, I don't think I could take it.

On a more tangible level, I'm afraid of our stairway between the first and second floor when I have our two year old son in my arms. It's crazy, it's only what, 14, 15 steps, but I fear that I could tumble from the top and take him down with me. I always, always do a double check and make sure my footing is secured...

FM

[nilodor]

As that wasn't on the list, I picked heights. It's a special type of heights though. I can handle and even like flying, roller coasters and things like that.

Get me up on a ladder or a short railing though and I get nervous really easily. I get dizzy and always feel as though the end is near.

I'm the same way, can handle rollercoasters, drop of doom, that elastic ejector seat but the only ride that scares me is the Ferris Wheel. Those low sides, rocking in the wind freaks the hell out of me.

[ice4277]

apostrophe's

fixed


:lovyouall:

[JeeberD]

Samara

[tanglewood]

Fear is the path to the dark side. Fear leads to anger. Anger leads to hate. Hate leads to suffering

[Groundhog]

Actually, I have an intense fear of getting my head "stuck" and not being able to dislodge it. For example, once when I was a kid I put my head underneath the bedhead (between mattress and bedhead) and couldn't get it out. I went nuts screaming and desperately trying to get out.

I also used to have nightmares that I'd be looking under a rock at the beach when it would collapse on my head, not killing me but pinning me down so I couldn't free myself.

[Craptacular]

http://www.droxy.com/images/2005/08/richard-simmons.jpg

[DaddyTorgo]

well if i'm being honest....it's dying without ever having found a woman who loves me

[General Mike]

rejection

[Buccaneer]

There's nothing on that list that I am afraid of. I like spiders, snakes, heights, enclosed spaces and the dark. Al Davis is a pimp.

What truly scares me would be seeing my son or wife get killed. Just typing that makes me sick.

[FrogMan]

There's nothing on that list that I am afraid of. I like spiders, snakes, heights, enclosed spaces and the dark. Al Davis is a pimp.


you telling us you like pimps? odd...

About your fear, I've said it in this thread, it's the same for me. I also get goosebumps thinking about it and the worst kind of movie scene for me is a kiddo, or the wife of a principal character getting killed or severely injured. I break down almost every time, transposing the scene to my own life in my head...

FM

[Buccaneer]

you telling us you like pimps? odd...


Dislike, yes; afraid, no.

[FrogMan]

Dislike, yes; afraid, no.

good clarification. You mentionned all the things you liked, was easy to jump to the conclusion :D

FM

[Grammaticus]

Other,

The Dolphins trading for Culpepper.

[Senator]

werewolves

[Qwikshot]

In an amount of seriousness, I would say I fear my daughter's reaction when she either uncovers or is the told the truth that I'm not her birth father. Now living with her mother and step-dad, she often asks questions like why did mommy and you have me when you weren't married, how did mommy and you have me when we lived in different towns, to why aren't our eyes the same color?. Fun fun stuff, since I don't feel it is my place to explain the truth, and rather than out and out lie I explain things in a circuitous fashion, still I'm sure one day she'll figure that out.

The other fear is that my daughter won't get a decent upbringing, at 5 now she's behind on her vaccinations, just got to see the dentist (her teeth need major work, my ex-gf took her not because she felt the need to take her out of motherly responsibility but because she herself was experiencing tooth discomfort)...my daughter has not gone to preschool, and has yet to be enrolled in kindergarten. I have no legal rights so I cannot press the issue without fear of losing visitation. So I see a very bright and eager to learn child slowly eroding sitting in a smoke filled apartment (with her step-dad who works from home) watching mindless television with no one to play with (believe I know, I get hour long phonecalls from her).

Final fear, never being truely happy again, I feel such a void in my life...death is a reality but being directioness in life is worse, I keep trying to figure it out enough to make me feel that everyday is worth getting up for.

[Eaglesfan27]

That's got to be the one for me. Seriously, I don't think I could take it.

On a more tangible level, I'm afraid of our stairway between the first and second floor when I have our two year old son in my arms. It's crazy, it's only what, 14, 15 steps, but I fear that I could tumble from the top and take him down with me. I always, always do a double check and make sure my footing is secured...

FM

That is another one of my future fears. That was the only problem with the house we just bought. The stairs are going to terrify me once we have kids..

[Telle]

I have a major fear of falling, but not necessarily of heights. I can go on crazy roller coasters and pier over the rail at Niagara Falls, but ask me to walk down three little steps that are slightly crumbling or have a little bit of snow on them and I'll instantly be near a panic attack. So long as I feel secure, the highest height isn't a problem at all.. but if I don't feel secure then I'm not going to be able to handle being just two feet off the ground.

[Qwikshot]

That is another one of my future fears. That was the only problem with the house we just bought. The stairs are going to terrify me once we have kids..

Zia was about less than a year old when we were at this Blockbuster, looking at movies to rent. A little backstory is that I played wide receiver for 3 years in high school, pretty decent junior year but senior year I couldn't catch a ball to save my life, even my brother was calling me stonehands. So I have Zia in my arms, cradled, very self conscious holding her in my hands, always have the extra caution alert going off. I was glancing for a second at a movie when she shift out of my arms to reach for something. And for seconds, she was airborne hurtling head first to the floor.

I caught her by her ankles, probably a half inch from her head making a direct hit. Gently and calmly held her while I called her mom and did the hand off. I had shakey hands for a bit.

Needless to say, greatest catch ever.

[Raiders Army]

Last Christmas, my wife and I were in a store and I had my youngest son with me (4 years old). I bought a Christmas present and wanted to get it to the car and get back so she wouldn't know I was gone. I grabbed my son and started running with him to the car. I tripped on the broken asphalt and as I was falling everything went all matrix-y. I wrapped him up in my arms and rolled so that my shoulder hit the pavement first and then my back. It was pretty weird because time slowed down. That's only happened a couple times before: once when I was playing football in high school and I made a solo tackle on this 200 pound kid when I was a buck forty and once when I was in Little League and hit a grand slam homerun.

[Qwikshot]

Last Christmas, my wife and I were in a store and I had my youngest son with me (4 years old). I bought a Christmas present and wanted to get it to the car and get back so she wouldn't know I was gone. I grabbed my son and started running with him to the car. I tripped on the broken asphalt and as I was falling everything went all matrix-y. I wrapped him up in my arms and rolled so that my shoulder hit the pavement first and then my back. It was pretty weird because time slowed down. That's only happened a couple times before: once when I was playing football in high school and I made a solo tackle on this 200 pound kid when I was a buck forty and once when I was in Little League and hit a grand slam homerun.

True, perhaps, you go into complete focus. I didn't even startle her when I caught her, still I was greatly unnerved.

[RendeR]

Zia was about less than a year old when we were at this Blockbuster, looking at movies to rent. A little backstory is that I played wide receiver for 3 years in high school, pretty decent junior year but senior year I couldn't catch a ball to save my life, even my brother was calling me stonehands. So I have Zia in my arms, cradled, very self conscious holding her in my hands, always have the extra caution alert going off. I was glancing for a second at a movie when she shift out of my arms to reach for something. And for seconds, she was airborne hurtling head first to the floor.

I caught her by her ankles, probably a half inch from her head making a direct hit. Gently and calmly held her while I called her mom and did the hand off. I had shakey hands for a bit.

Needless to say, greatest catch ever.


I had an experience very like this one with my daughter, Keegan. I was washing the dishes and rpepping dinner at the same time, I had just nuked some veggies and removed them from the microwave. The door to the microwave didn't close properly. Keegan, at the time about a year old, was in her high chair next to the counter top near the micro.

As I went back to washng dishes, she stretched out trying to reach the open microwave door and basically took a header, I didn't even turn my head, just whipped out my left hand and snagger her by the ankle in mid air. Took me a few seconds to even realize I had done it. and I just held ehr their until the ex wife grabbed her from me.

Funny thing was Keegan never really flinched.She just sorta dangled there wondering wtf had happened. To this day I don't really understand "how" I knew exactly where to grab and when. I couldn't really see her from where I was standing she was to my left and behind by a few feet.

Just lucky I guess.