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I fear NOTHING except the crap that scares me.

- heights, but only when I feel like I might fall.
- being lost at sea in shark infested waters... a thing from my navy days.
- being a long term burden on my family. I've been sick and unable to work before for a long stretch... did not like the feeling at all.
- I never want to lose my mental capacity. Would not allow myself to live with advanced stage alzheimer's if I could avoid it.
- My biggest fear is something happening to one of my kids or grandkids. This country is not the country I grew up in.

This happened to me as I believe we have talked about it before..

Because of it I'm so claustrophobic.. so any tight places..dark places anything that's confining. I can't even get in a back seat of a two door car.


Steeler fans freak me also...

I hate Novocaine. I would rather suffer pain for the short term than to suffer the pain of coming out of the Novocaine for hours afterwards.

Buried alive would be a big one for me ... could you tell your story? Just curious

I think you can rent a sense of humor at Sunbelt Rental or Home Depot.

Fear: 1a. that things that I believe will prove to be false and having difficulty coming to grips with it.

1b. That people won't admit that what they have believed is false because they can't handle the ramifications.

1c. Being unable to discuss said beliefs for fear of putting other people in the same moral quandary and how that would affect relationships.

Spiders. Big time. If there is one in my hotel room I want to change rooms. I really need to travel with someone who can dispose of those awful monsters. Snakes don’t bother me at all, and I’ve run into some big ones out west. A spider will send me screaming into the night.

I’m also claustrophobic. I really had to work on it since I fly so much. I have gotten better with this one, but still struggle in very small places.

Snakes don’t bother you? Man, they freak me out terribly. I’m a wimped with them ,,, heck even with worms

My wife is petrified of spiders. Our first night in Colorado - I was already asleep, she and others were awake playing cards - well, when she came to bed, she saw a spider. Screamed. So now I, she, Sooga, and my son are awake.

She finally got in bed and kept prattling on about how she can't sleep cause there might be more spiders. After about 15 minutes I said "It's odd. For some reason, I can't sleep right now either."

She finally said "I'm going to go sleep in the car." Okay. Take the keys.

Let's just say she didn't sleep well.

The rest of the week, my daughter slept with her, and they left the lights on because my wife thinks spiders are more active at night. That might be true, I don't know.

But, I can't sleep with lights on. I used a different bedroom. Slept very well.

I got news for you.

Centipedes are ten times creepier than spiders.

They move fast and deliver a powerful, venomous bite.



If you see one of these in your house don't fool around.

I have a nightmare for you...

Once, while staying at my cabin, I slept on my side with my right arm under the pillow but my forearm stuck out from under it.

The fires died out overnight and the morning was very cold. I was still snuggy under the blankets when I rolled onto my back.

There to my surprise was a snake, fully coiled around my forearm! He had spent a snuggy night too.

I would have a difficult time ever sleeping again

Spiders are easy, at home.

Seal around the rim joist of your home, then treat it with a 6 month spider/centipede/flea/roach/anything else imaginable killer. Use the stuff that keeps on murdering the little buggers.

Sprat around every window, and around the soil pipe, if you can get to it. Also spray around your outside doors.

I have done this about every other year, and I can't remember the last time I saw a spider in my house. (or centipede, etc.)

A suggestion for on the road .....

My mom bought some things that plug in to an outlet and are supposed to emit a sound that repels bugs. She says she has less bugs that she sis before ....

I can't swear they work, but if it's worth it to try, it's something you could take with you on the road, and plug in at the hotel when you arrive.

I've seen them, but I'm afraid they might drive my dog crazy.

What about for gophers or woodchucks? I can’t get these 2/3 of them out of here! Under my deck, in my mulch, etc

You can be nice and go live trap. At least for woodchucks. (you don't want them under your deck)

Bait the trap with an apple, or even a shortly chewed piece of grape bubble gum.

I don't know where you live.

Thanks, I actually do have a cage trap. I’ll cut up an apple and set it. I’ll be nice and release them ... maybe

As for gophers? Or are they moles?

If moles, and you have holes in your yard (mole holes) fill a couple of empty milk gallon jugs with water.

If you see a mole in the yard, grab a jug, run to the hole it went into, and put the jug in the hole, upside down, so the water drains into it.

Don't leave. By the time the water runs out, you'll have a mole in the jug. Cap the jug. Then, do whatever you choose to with the mole.

Arch is wise.

That seems awesome! They aren’t moles though ... they are woodchucks/gophers. But I kinda wish they were moles now

But, if they're gophers follow this instructional video.

... a Cinderella story

Undoubtedly the funniest scene I've ever seen at the movies (and on TV for years afterwards).



I laughed every time I saw this scene for years.

I was just re-reading this thread from the start. I missed your post the first time.

I hear you (pun not intended), to me, the sound of it rubbing together is worse than it breaking.

and ever since I was a little kid, I hate the sound/feel of a pencil on paper - gives me the heebie-jeebies, can't stand it. It's funny, because the other day I was at a work thing and someone beside me was writing stuff down on paper, using a coloured marker. I could barely handle the sound.

I clearly remember elementary school and wishing they'd let me write with a pen.

Reminds me of the movie, "Open Water".

Not much that scares me about me, but somebody mentioned outliving my kids.. things like that scare me a lot. Getting the call that one of them was in an accident and either they died or they killed somebody else.. those things freak me out.

I don't have a real fear of heights as long as I'm enclosed.. in a plane, a building, even a roller coaster car, I'm good. But going to the grand canyon and walking near the unprotected edge? Nah, I can see it fine from 40 feet away, I'm good. Maybe I just have too much faith in engineering.

It's not really a fear but tickling me.. if you grab one of my knees to tickle me, you better know where the other foot is because it's about to kick your arse.

In town here just yesterday ... there was a terrible fire at a house and ALL FIVE children died. Both parents lived. That’s a nightmare.

So I got that goin for me, which is nice.

Haha ;0

Some type of daycare/? Tragic.

3 children from 1 family.

As I understand, all 5 children were ages from less than 1 year to 7 years old.

God bless the children and the parents.

Just incomprehensible to me. Couldn't imagine it.

Yeah, just an awful scenario. Tough to fathom

Only afraid of sharks when in the ocean,

but, crocodiles don't rob convienent stores, people know what I mean.

3 year olds can't be allowed to get ahold of matches or a lighter, whenever I heard through my life of children dying in a fire it always seems there was a 3 year old,
and I think , they are the ones that just don't understand.

It's a terrible tragedy, when the innocent die, I like to think they will be close to God.