What are you afraid of?
 

Besides spiders (shudder), the main thing I am afraid of is:

RBS

Random Bad Shit.

You know--RBS is the awful shit that happens to people. The kind of thing you hear in the news that you hope never happens to you. The kind of thing no preventative or preparation can avert. Like backing over your toddler in the driveway. Getting cancer of the pancreas. Having a tornado flatten your home. Getting in a freak accident which leaves you incapacitated.

And mostly, I'm afraid not for myself, but for my children.

:worried:

ditto all that. Except the spiders.

I'm afraid one of these days people will notice that my veneer of competence is completely fraudulent.

Sharks - very afraid of them - don't know why.

We discussed unreasonable fears here. There may be some overlap (I am unreasonably scared of being impaled or stabbed through the throat or cheek).

I am also occasionally afraid of mirrors or reflective surfaces. Nothing to do with my appearance - I just find them creepy. The films and books that distress me the most are the ones where things appear in mirrors or reflected in the windows of dark rooms.

Right here, in a well lit office, I have physically shuddered just typing this.

This post is seen in a new light now.

Well remembered!

You can rest easy now. The secret is out. lol!!!

Being in crowded places.

Snakes, fire, spiders and other crawly things, but not happy friendly ones like ladybugs and lightning bugs, even if they are just roaches with personality, falling.

Oh, yeah. And Clintons, including George.

:lol:

All-You-Can-Eat buffets.

Being eaten by an alligator, shark, or similar.

Wood spiders (any big spider, really)

My 17 year-old driving around in his Jeep.

Being alone.
Dark closets with the door open a crack when I'm trying to sleep.
Being laid off.

I actually like spiders, snakes, etc. And heights.

lurkers

i read RBS as "red back spiders".

ummm. the only thing that really scares me these days is not fulfilling my life purpose. im not saying that in a corny interview for a job kinda way. it actually has made me rip a hole in my pillow with my teeth while trying to sleep because i was so scared.

Having my face touched. That is actually it.

I guess I need to find someplace else to sit then. Muahahaha!

(goin' ta hell for that one and rkzenrage is gonna send me there)

Being on top of deep water. I'm not scared of deep water if I am in it, but bobbing away on top and not knowing whats underneath me...scary!!!

Mice!!!

Nobody wanting me :)

Just afraid of hands on my face, to clarify.

Oh, also that I will die before my son understands it.

The grids at the bottom of swimming pools

dogs

losing my teeth

being trapped in a crowd

Why have you (collective), been hiding this? :confused:

Um, so nobody else would find it and it would die a quick death?

Ask LJ, he put it there.

Textured ceiling tiles with holes in them. Anything with a "holey" texture creeps me out.

My biggest fear is that someone will show up at the Cellar's doorstep, post a few times, and become the biggest know-it-all, most condescending fuck to ever walk the planet. (All present company not only excluded but far from that category.)

Doncha hate it when that happens? ;)

Oh no!
Now you've given me The Fear too.

Now my worst fear is that someone I know and really don't like IRL discovers this place and follows me from post to post belittling me in a subtle but funny way. Then I would become snappish and sullen and they would shine like a little star so that in the end I slunk away in defeat while they were left here basking in glory.

Yes, something (a little bit) similar once happened :mecry:

Hillary Clinton getting elected. :D

Really tall heights bother me. I was a paratrooper for 5 years and every jumps scared the shit out of me. I either had to be first or in the middle of the group. I was always afraid that if I was last (the pusher) I wouldn't jump, which would have been bad. Really tall heights still make my feet tingle. I would jump again if I had to. But I don't think I would do it for fun.

I have another on-line acquaintance who is afraid of holes; but, strangely, wanted me to send her photos of them.
The only time she ever freaked was when I sent her a video of a botfly larvae extraction.

I never heard of anyone else with that fear; I googled it and there are certainly fears of falling into big holes, or holes from which bugs crawl. Maybe the texture thing I have has to do with bug holes.

Googling the subject I found the following quote:

« Previous Post| |Next Post »
My Fear of Holes
February 28th, 2007 I don’t really trust the holes in my washer.

I refuse to put the soap in until the bottom holes fill with water.

Who wants to throw all that detergent into a pock-marked abyss?

Not me.

And so I wait.

From this blog.

That made me chuckle.

There's a photoshopped pic of a breast that rkzenrage's friend really shouldn't see...

OH GOD just thinking of that image gives me the weebies, HM...

This has been a nagging fear of mine on more than one occasion. Not so much the belittling aspect, just the horror of having my happy home invaded, you know? I would be afraid to be myself here anymore if certain people found it and connected who I was.

Oh, I started that there just to see what I could do with it. It seems that I'm still a moderator there even though it's archived. then people started replying, so i didn't mess.

did you people know that when you delete a post, the mods can recall and read it anyway?

You have more power than a Mod.
I can't get there without that link from Glatt.
I can't convince UT to ban anyone either.

Dude, all you have to do is ask me to leave, and I'll leave. :eyebrow:

She sent it to me.
There is a whole category of henti with worms coming out of nipples... I don't get it.

random thoughts on scary
 

The scariest thing to me is how much of this stuff I have actually seen. About 25 years ago I was in the break room at work & one of the guys in my team had been seen going to the storeroom an hour or so earlier, so I went to check on him. He was on the floor with his pocketknife stuck in his neck to the hilt. He survived that, but died of pancreatic cancer within a year (I think that was why he tried to kill himself).
On the deep water thing, I have actually been able to go for a swim near the deepest part of the Pacific, and I will grant that it is a strange feeling to know that there is over five miles of water between you and the bottom, and who knows what unknown creatures lurk below.
One of the ships on which I served had been in a collision with a tanker several years earlier, and most of the Chief Petty Officers on board were trapped in their quarters and burned to death. During my years at sea, that was my worst fear, but it was not serious enough to make me want to quit going to sea.

Jerry

I'll give you 8 days to get on your bike and get out of town.:p

I'm really afraid of fire hazards, such as curtains catching on a candle flame, or a lamp bulb burning furniture. Years ago, my apartment at the time caught on fire, and I was shocked at how quickly it spread...sure don't want to see that again.

I can't believe that no one has mentioned 'clowns' or 'public speaking.' These are typically ranked #1 and #2 in surveys.

And what about republicans?

I have got to stop reading this thread.
People keep reminding me of the things I fear and honestly, I do get the shudders all over.

I hate clowns. I don't like them in real life (ie people in clown make-up getting out of tiny cars and falling over) but I absolutely loathe images of them.

I was given a china clown statue as a joke one Christmas. It was seriously creepy and I worried about it at night and it stopped me sleeping - I didn't really believe it would come alive, but it set too many thoughts racing through my mind to be able to relax. And I was scared if I smashed it, I'd find it back in the house again, unmarked. At which point my mind would snap (my other great fear).

A friend stepped in and took it off my hands. The act of talking to a rational adult made me behave like a rational adult too. I'm still glad it's gone though.

I'm afraid of dying "before my time." Of course, in my belief sphere, when God punches my time card, it's time to go. But I think I can live a long and healthy life if I could just lose some weight and eat better. I'm trying, but it is so hard.

Puppets.

Rising bollards :worried:

I used to be afraid of public speaking, but I've structured my life so that it's not a fear I have to deal with. Not a fear any more.

Shawnee, is that a fear that one will suddenly rise up as you're walking over top, or something more :male: ?

It's from this thread:

http://cellar.org/showthread.php?t=12142

Ahhh yes, there it is. I was still fairly new here, had not yet become the post pariah, and realized I LIKE Flint's slightly abrasive, yet funny and intelligent, views. :p

Those were the days,

Pariah Carey

I was going to say "never mind the bollards", but it would have been the 76th time that particular light joke had been used on the Internet.

......no....no I won't make a cheap bollocks joke....

I just re-read the whole thing, and in hindsight I have to admit that I'm still right and the rest of you are wrong. ;)

You're right! Except that I was right too because I was mostly agreeing with you!

Funny, I went back & reread it too (when Shawnee mentioned bollards). I think that's where I formed my antipathy to Flint. I'm so defensive of perceived slights against my country....

Bruce agreed with me. And Clodfobble. That's a strong enough hand for me to be able to state quite clearly that I was on the side of right.

I'll see your Bruce and Clodfobble, and raise you a Flint and a Glatt.

You're being redundant. "Public speaking clowns" and "Republicans". lol!!!

Nah, I have the stronger hand. I accept your Glatt, but Flint was a new poster, and one who needed to be sat on at that point. Bruce has so much gravitas that he bends light. Or am I confusing that with gravity again?

Right young lady. I've taken some time and trouble over this to convince you for once and for all it isn't the case. (If there's an automated way of checking responses to posts please don't tell me now - I sat and did a manual count)

Posts by SG 19 March - 28 March - 95
Direct quotes from posts or responses - 40
Response rate = 42.1%
Posts by Shawnee 19 March -28 March - 136
Direct quotes from posts or responses - 52
Response rate = 38.2%

Not that different.
Also bear in mind that in this time I was asking direct questions. And that I often interact with other Brit posters because we share similar experiences ie posting re the NHS or British schoolkids.

So there. No more claims that everyone ignores you. Shush.

OK, someone needs to devise a poker hand designation for cellarites. Does a Bruce (King of Hearts) beat a pair of Flints (Ace of Clubs)? :biggrin:



I know, I'm just being a big boo hoo baby head. I'm as narcissistic as they come! :p

But you can't get a pair of Flints, see? Not unless you're playing the secret Flint from up your sleeve (naughty, naughty). To assign the Dwellars card values we'd have to agree on the game (the Queen of Spades popularity varies massivelt from game to game for example!)

I suggest instead we are a tarot deck. Shuffled and cast again and again to try to make some sense of the world. Right, I'll stop being so self consciously fey now.

Meh - you're worth the effort. You boo hoo baby head x

You're cracking me up.

But I DO have a Flint up my sleeve, I DO, I DO! Or maybe I just dreamed that.

Just realised you had already specified the game was poker. Sorry. Well you're on your own there chick - I only know Strip Poker and after all that's actually a version of 21 so that boys can play it with drunken girls.

Don't carry flint in your sleeve! Fire danger!