A little off topic, but that's alright...

My worst fears involve something happening to my family. Second are what happens to me after I take care of those responsible for what happened to my family. I used to be uncomfortable being spontaneously required to speak to medium to large groups without any notice or preparation, but that's been happening so often that I don't even think about it any more.

QUOTE: Originally posted by J-Hulk Oh yeah, we have monstrous, flying palmetto bugs in Georgia, too! Unsavory beasts.

Oh, man, do I remember those... I lived in a trailer park outside Ft. Benning years ago and the pay phone outside the manager's office was inundated with them at night; I was constantly in fear of being picked up and carried off by them...

Oh, yeah... and spiders of ANY size (so much for the macho thing)... Here in VT we have barn spiders, on some,the size of the body alone are those of silver dollars; Imagine my surprise when I stumbled across a web from one (and he was still home) when I opened the back door to my apartment...

QUOTE: Originally posted by B. LeCren Funny thing, I am a private pilot and enjoy aerobatics and whatnot with the airplane, also have climbed some steel now and then, but put me on a ladder ... totally different story. Bruce

I hear ya, Used to do roofing and the only hard part was getting to the roof! I have no problems 60' of the ground ina any type of lift but 20' on a ladder-NO WAY!
BTW: I love to fly too, couple miles up with no visible means of support. Turbulance-no problem, aerobatics-bring 'em on. No ladders please!

Insects of any kind, even a photo of a bug creeps me out. Doctors, Nurses, needles, hostpitals dont scare me any more. I had a quintupal (sp?) cardiac bypass done last June, I lived through taht nothin' in a hospital bothers me now

Getting shot when I deploy and not making it back so then my wife and soon to be born son will have to go on with out me, and a close second.....when I have to sleep on the ground scorpions and snakes getting in my sleeping bag or track.

snakes, eels, mouse/rat tails!

For me it was always doing aerobatics under 2000 feet, as they say in my circles, give me altitude or I'll crap on the party.

Funny thing, I am a private pilot and enjoy aerobatics and whatnot with the airplane, also have climbed some steel now and then, but put me on a ladder ... totally different story.
Bruce

Other than something happening to my wife and kids, would have to be another intoxicated,uninsured idiot finding my car the hard way again. Mainly because with that comes dealings with heatlh insurance& car insurance adjusters ( not directing that at anybody but the ones I happen to be dealing with).

OOOOOOO i got it!!!!!


Building another tank scares me!!!!!

lol mike!!!



This thread is scarying me!!!!

QUOTE: Originally posted by hou_ge2000 Mike, since when are you out of your box? I mean, I thought you only participate in the airbrush forum.

I'm all over baby!
I had to expand my horizons since it gets tiresome telling those guys that the Aztec is not a real airbrush.

Mike

QUOTE: Originally posted by djmodels1999 Palemetto bugs..??? Is that something we should know about before we go for the Big Meet in Pensacola..????

Oh ya, these things are so big that most insurance companies have a separate insurance rider just to cover the damage when they strike the cars. Big mothers, BIG,BIG, King Kong would be scared, they carry off small children if your not watching, even big dogs, and sometimes horses

My worst fear is something happpening to my wife or son. I know I could'nt handle that.
On a lighter note, I've had some scary stuff happen to me and I have to say it's put the fear of god into me at the time but made me a stronger person afterwards.
Never had a fear of flying until my first emergency landing-I seriously thought my no. was up! It left me spooked for a while and then I chilled out, relaxed and found myself on a 737 leaking fuel over Belgium a year later! Needless to say, I'm still here and we landed safely,thanks to a great pilot. It was a close run thing though. The best bit was my wife was with me and when I told her "Don't worry-I've done one of these before." She thought I had completely lost my marbles!
Another thing that bothers me is guns-I don't like them being pointed at me. I've been detained in various airports around the world at gunpoint, the worst experience being Nairobi airport. I local cop pointed a ready to fire AK-47 at my head because I was smoking outside the terminal building! Mind you, I managed to calm him down, so I guess these things can improve my communication skills! Also an important health lesson here too-smoking can get you killed!

Prety much anything medical , needles , surgery etc , i just go nuts even thinking about it. hell i can't even watch any of the the medical shows they have on tv sometimes. its not the blood either , i saw plenty of gory stuff and it doesn't bother me at all but the sight of seeing a scalpel cut someone up (never happened to me thankfully) *shudder*

Palmetto Bugs...roaches what ever they are prolific!

On a more serious note though, some of my biggest fears besides an angry wife! LOL

Something happening to her or Heather! Something happening to me leaving me disabled...just in general being a failure...wish I could be more specific on the last one...it would require lots of booze and some long hours on a couch in some office.....

Mike, since when are you out of your box?

I mean, I thought you only participate in the airbrush forum.

Living in urban America I would say the greatest fear is getting hit by a stray drive-by shooting bullet which is fairly common these days.

Mike

QUOTE: Originally posted by wroper11 AHHHHH Fat women in spandex or bikinis. Wroper

Don't forget halter tops!

I don't like heights because I get vertigo sometimes, interesting when it happens and I'm running conduit across the warehouse ceiling.

If I'm out in the woods hiking, I'd be afraid of accidentally coming between a Mama bear and her cubs.

DJ

Swimming. It is staying alive in water. I swallow CO2 cartridges when I take a shower. With my wife dragging me snorkleing and jet skiing in the ocean, I wonder if she is after the insurance.

QUOTE: Originally posted by J-Hulk Oh yeah, we have monstrous, flying palmetto bugs in Georgia, too! Unsavory beasts.

Here in Northern California we have what I have heard called, "Japanese Beetles" that are huge and fly!
I don't think they really are Japanese Beetles because from what I could find on the web they are only 3/8" long. These ones I am talking about are at least an inch or more if I remember correctly.
They are not in my immediate area but I have seen them at Lake Shasta which is about 4 hours north.
How do they differ from the Palmetto bugs you mentioned?

Mike

Needles! Woe to the nurse who doesn't heed my warning. I don't understand the why of it but when someone attempts to give me a shot, my fight or fight instincts take over. I'm only along for the ride at that point. I'm really more scared that I might hurt someone.

My daughter reaching for a just finished kit! [:0]

The wife woke up the other morning from a disturbing nightmare: Hundreds of zombie skeletons chasing her. The only way to kill them? Apple juice. And the grocery store had only one bottle left! [:0]

Got to be drowning. Nearly did ten years ago and I have panic attacks if the waterfountain gets wacky and I get it in the face.

For me it's heights, and maybe the occasional spider.

Interestingly, I heard that statistically, speaking in public is the second highest fear after fear of death. And then there are those people I know who would rather die than speak in public.

Gip Winecoff

QUOTE: Originally posted by J-Hulk OK! I got it: My worst fear is being suddenly put in charge of something I know nothing about, and then instantly being expected by my superiors to, without any training whatsover, be able to handle any situation immediately! (This particular nightmare has come true with unfortunate regularity in recent months!) Well, I suppose that's not an irrational fear!

That's happened at every job I've had since high school!! Can't say I fear that anymore.

Hmmm, let's see...maybe waking up on a busy street corner and realizing I'm nekkid??? Nah, not too likely to happen I suppose

If I had kids, something happening to them would be my fear. Other than that, nothing I lose sleep over I guess.

Eric

AHHHHH

Fat women in spandex or bikinis.



Wroper

Oh yeah, we have monstrous, flying palmetto bugs in Georgia, too! Unsavory beasts.
Got used to them at a young age, though, so I can't say I fear them.

So what do I fear...you guys mean like little, irrational phobias, right?
Hmmm...I studied to be a biologist (specialized in entomology and herpetolgy), so I'm not afraid of any harmless animals...

OK! I got it: My worst fear is being suddenly put in charge of something I know nothing about, and then instantly being expected by my superiors to, without any training whatsover, be able to handle any situation immediately! (This particular nightmare has come true with unfortunate regularity in recent months!)

Well, I suppose that's not an irrational fear!