your biggest fear

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#177
buckfama said:
Not afraid of snakes or pretty much any critter.. EXCEPT the brown recluse.

With my work around old barns those suckers are everywhere. I'm not really scared, just wary of getting bit.

Snakes are large enough and if you give them room or make enough noise to disturb them they will leave. Not so with brown recluse. Pulled 1 little pice of 4 inch wide bead board today and there were 2 of those suckers on it.. and 1 had an attitude. If you get bit by one it's months of recovery.. I know several who have been bitten and it's nasty..

Brown Recluse.. #1 on my list of fears..
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Just read an article a couple days ago about a girl who woke up from a coma without her foot after it had to be amputated from a bite
 
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#178
golfballs said:
Just read an article a couple days ago about a girl who woke up from a coma without her foot after it had to be amputated from a bite
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My dad almost lost his hand to one. Finger swelled so bad it busted, turned colors, and ran streaks up his arm. It was nasty, he was in the hospital a week over it.
 
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#180
golfballs said:
Just read an article a couple days ago about a girl who woke up from a coma without her foot after it had to be amputated from a bite
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I'm taking down an old general store in Nunnley Tn and this building is absolutely loaded with them.

There was a room off to the side that was used to store kerosene and repair tractor parts. I had been in this room no more than 10 minutes .. working on removing the boards from an interior wall and I had seen 6. They were everywhere. So I moved to the outside wall and stripped the outside wall instead to let the sunlight in. They aren't crazy about direct light and being disturbed. After removing the outside boards I left it for a couple of days and came back to finish the interior wall.. never saw another one in that room. The new sunlight and air currents was enough to flush them out.
 
#181
#181
Drowning. That's why I became a competitive swimmer and lifeguard, trained in Myrtle beach, and Indian Rocks for swift water rescue. Nothing better than facing your fears to overcome them.

To bad I have a cornea transplant and really bad knees, Coastguard rescue swimmer or Becoming a PJ was my dream. My professional rescue career would have been great. I did what I could when I could to give back to my community and served a Reserve fire dept.

Now I just make medical implants.
 
#182
#182
After watching that video in the "Bigfoot" thread, I'll have to add 12 foot tall fapping Bigfoots too my list.
 
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#184
Burhead said:
Spiders, fricking things are god's way of reminding you are not as manly as you think you are.
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It's a very long walk at 3am from my parking space to my apartment. Spiders love building webs in the wee hours of the morning and my paranoia only increases when I brush against a web.
 
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#186
MG1968 said:
It's a very long walk at 3am from my parking space to my apartment. Spiders love building webs in the wee hours of the morning and my paranoia only increases when I brush against a web.
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My wife was screaming for me yesterday like someone was trying to burn the house down. She was outside, and there was the oddest spider I've seen around here. I'd say a little over a nickel in size, and hairy. Gray looking hairy like a little werewolf spider. I kilt it.
 
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#187
joevol33 said:
My wife was screaming for me yesterday like someone was trying to burn the house down. She was outside, and there was the oddest spider I've seen around here. I'd say a little over a nickel in size, and hairy. Gray looking hairy like a little werewolf spider. I kilt it.
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If I'd seent it, I'd a kilt it too.
 
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#188
#188
joevol33 said:
Have you ever been in one? I have, it'll make you truly understand how powerful they are. It scared me, but now I'm fascinated by bad storms.
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I was visiting a friend in Galveston and we watched water spouts hitting close by for around an hour or so,they kept hitting and lifting up over and over,it got spooky when somebody said where do we hide if they hit ground ? we were at an apartment complex

my worst fear is a fiery death,I've had nightmares about that and the one where I drive off the Fort Henry Damn bridge in Kingsport TN :)
 
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#189
joevol33 said:
Have you ever been in one? I have, it'll make you truly understand how powerful they are. It scared me, but now I'm fascinated by bad storms.
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An EF 4 hit 5 blocks from me in 2013 - destroyed 400 houses and in freakin November at 11 am --- I didnt take the sirens serious, was upstairs and never made it to the basement until it had went by --Now I take every forecast seriously and fearfully
 
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#190
Dying by fire.

Or getting run over on I-26. Mainly by one of those little smart cars, or a Volkswagen beetle - not the old classic ones, but the new ones with eyelashes on them.

I would be so humiliated if that's the way I had a LOD death.
 
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#191
MG1968 said:
It's a very long walk at 3am from my parking space to my apartment. Spiders love building webs in the wee hours of the morning and my paranoia only increases when I brush against a web.
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There are few things funnier than watching somebody suddenly having a freakout for no apparent reason when they hit a web that's invisible to the person watching.

Now having said that I really don't like scorpions.
 
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#192
hndog609 said:
There are few things funnier than watching somebody suddenly having a freakout for no apparent reason when they hit a web that's invisible to the person watching.

Now having said that I really don't like scorpions.
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Scorpions suck too. But I don't see very many.

See plenty of Brown Recluse though.. little bastards..
 
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#194
Something happening to my kids. I try to let them experience things but I also know the dangers of a 5yo kid climbing 20ft up a rope structure, swimming in a murky lake (where I learned to swim) or the ocean, etc
 
#195
#195
You could always wrap them in sanitary bubble wrap. I thank God my parents let me live unafraid of everything. That being said...I feel you. I pushed my kids to overcome their fears, while swallowing my own everytime they jumped off a cliff or rope swing into the lake, or swam too far out from the beach, or got too far ahead of me on the trails in Grizzly infested Yellowstone. They are all grown up, and are confident,successful people now....and I still lie awake at night sometimes worrying about them...Parenting is hard.
 
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#196
That's it for me too, something happening to my kids that I can't do anything about. I try to give them space and not hover but secretly I worry about just about everything they do. In my mind I've killed them a hundred ways, everything from falling into the Grand Canyon to getting dragged under by an alligator.

Once we were all walking across the Walnut Street pedestrian bridge in Chatt and we were about to pass some ratty homeless guy going the opposite direction. I got all tensed up, puffed out and ready for war because in my mind he was going to try to grab one of my girls randomly and toss her off the bridge. Of course, he was just a guy moseying along and I had no basis for my idiotic thoughts but there you go.

I try to keep all that internal and not let them see me fretting over them.


Edit: Hilarious that my post got time stamped at 9:11 (PT that is).
 
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#200
Tin Man said:
You fished out this thread from two years of sediment because you're scared of holes?
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Good grief it doesn't seem like 2 years! Some of you are getting old, and that should scare you.
 
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