What was your greatest fear as a kid?

[sparky]

I was living in Fort Lauderdale during the Cuban Missile Crisis and I remember thinking, "How stupid do you think I am that a desk will save me from a nuclear bomb?"

they just don't make those desks like they used to......~S~

 

[toobfreak]

I was living in Fort Lauderdale during the Cuban Missile Crisis

Dang, but you've been nothing but constant trouble no matter where we move you to!

and I remember thinking, "How stupid do you think I am that a desk will save me from a nuclear bomb?"

They just don't grow oak like that anymore. It was carefully impregnated with molecular lead before forming it into its final shape.

That is why those desks never moved, they weren't bolted to the floor like those Catholic nuns claimed, they just weighed 600 pounds each.

Besides, those desks were never meant to protect you from the gamma rays and 10,000°F searing heat, they are just there to mark where to look for the bodies once things cool down enough to come back to look for the dead.

 

[1srelluc]

I remember when I was in middle school and they gave us a NRA hunter's safety course. This was before blaze orange was around.

The old game warden, Jimmy Simpson, who held the class, related a story (the theme was IDing your target) about a guy deer hunting who took out a white handkerchief to blow his nose and some hunter shot him in the face!

Come to find out the story was BS but to this day I never carry a white handkerchief.....Anywhere!

 

[SaxonJackson]

Spiders. The bigger and the faster -- the more I cringed. The worst were the Funnel Spiders in southern California where I grew up. Huge and fast.

 

[Papageorgio]

Nuns! They scared me, I had tonsillitis when I was 3 or 4 and when I woke up from surgery, I opened my eyes and my parents weren’t there and there were these nuns trying to hush me up from crying, they had their habits on, and to this day, I still don’t like nuns.

 

[knuckles]

Say when you were 10-12 years old?

I was asked that question and being a pretty fearless outdoor type of kid about all I could think of was when mom said "just wait till your father gets home" after I messed-up.

It was usually a hollow threat....But sometimes it wasn't.

Growing up.

 

[Quasar44]

Say when you were 10-12 years old?

I was asked that question and being a pretty fearless outdoor type of kid about all I could think of was when mom said "just wait till your father gets home" after I messed-up.

It was usually a hollow threat....But sometimes it wasn't.

Being a broken down, lonely, mentally and now physically broken down person with no soul or direction.
There were signs but I thought I be ok. I am not .

 

[toobfreak]

Being a broken down, lonely, mentally and now physically broken down person with no soul or direction.
There were signs but I thought I be ok. I am not .

Offhand it sounds like it is time you found a direction.

 

[Quasar44]

Offhand it sounds like it is time you found a direction.

I am in school to be an X ray tech !!! I am half though the program.

I aint as bright as I thought I was .
i just a solution to ease my back pain.

My brain meds working good

 

[Quasar44]

Offhand it sounds like it is time you found a direction.

Maybe you could whack me out and bury in a jewish cementary
I wont hold any bad blood at all.

 

[ChristisKing]

Clowns, (still am) the monster under my bed, in my closet, and in the basement, the dark, (still am to a point) being sucked down the drain, snakes (still am) were a lot of them but my number one fear is actually something like an eyelash being in my eyes and somebody touching my eyes. I've been working on that one but that has been one of my greatest phobias since I was little and I don't know why. I can't even remember if I ever had a traumatic experience with it or anything.


Tiny things also use to terrify me for some strange reason so Honey, I Shrunk The Kids was like a horror movie to me although now I love it and I'm obsessed with movies of people shrinking. That was quite a turnaround for me.

 

[toobfreak]

Maybe you could whack me out and bury in a jewish cementary
I wont hold any bad blood at all.

Sounds like you just need a purpose in life, some inspiration.

 

[Crepitus]

Say when you were 10-12 years old?

I was asked that question and being a pretty fearless outdoor type of kid about all I could think of was when mom said "just wait till your father gets home" after I messed-up.

It was usually a hollow threat....But sometimes it wasn't.

I'd have to agree with that.

 

[toobfreak]

Clowns, (still am) the monster under my bed, in my closet, and in the basement, the dark, (still am to a point) being sucked down the drain, snakes (still am) were a lot of them but my number one fear is actually something like an eyelash being in my eyes and somebody touching my eyes. I've been working on that one but that has been one of my greatest phobias since I was little and I don't know why. I can't even remember if I ever had a traumatic experience with it or anything.

What the hell is so scary about clowns?

 

[ChristisKing]

What the hell is so scary about clowns?

Looks at your pfp I really don't like you right now...

 

[ChristisKing]

Looks at your pfp I really don't like you right now...

Well now you changed it back and I look like an idiot.

 

[RetiredGySgt]

I am also terrified of heights to include in games I play. In the corps I had to repel a couple times and did ship net training to get on and off a ship at sea. I always hated that and usually was white as a sheet when doing it but again you don't get to choose not to participate in the military.

 

[Admiral Rockwell Tory]

I am also terrified of heights to include in games I play. In the corps I had to repel a couple times and did ship net training to get on and off a ship at sea. I always hated that and usually was white as a sheet when doing it but again you don't get to choose not to participate in the military.

I wasn't afraid of heights. I was afraid of falling from that height!

I had the unique privilege of having to climb to the highest point on the ship and over inside our 3D radar antenna. I also had the pleasure of testing my claustrophobia by inspecting steam drums on marine boilers. The access hatch was exactly my chest diameter. I fit like a cork! My sailors pushed my feet so I could get inside.

 

[RetiredGySgt]

I wasn't afraid of heights. I was afraid of falling from that height!

I had the unique privilege of having to climb to the highest point on the ship and over inside our 3D radar antenna. I also had the pleasure of testing my claustrophobia by inspecting steam drums on marine boilers. The access hatch was exactly my chest diameter. I fit like a cork! My sailors pushed my feet so I could get inside.

yup the military does wonders for your fear LOL

 

[ChristisKing]

I wasn't afraid of heights. I was afraid of falling from that height!

This.