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What is it that you scared of the most?

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For some reason, always been scared of being a ray of light. Able to do nothing except travel at immense speeds in a straight line. Always had nightmares about that for some reason.
 
Aging

I'm 22 and hate it already 😛

I don't mind the money and responsibility--hell I enjoy living on my own. I just dread that I'll be in my 30s before I know it. From there it all goes downhill 😛

- Get stuck with little snot-goblin kids because your wife needs to have them
- You get sex maybe twice a year
- Your money is spent on family
- You go bald and get fat then develop diabetes (I'm already working on the bald part 🙁)
- Your wife puts on 50 lbs and becomes despondent.
- Your parents, older relatives and friends die...
- There is a 50% chance you will divorce (perhaps by this point in will be much higher, if the past 50 years is any indication it cetainly will be...). The whole marriage was pointless. It ends. Right there. 20 years in and POOF it means nothing.
- There is a 25-30% chance your wife will fvck around on you.
- Your body REALLY starts to give out and your hearing, eyesight and mental alertness all begin to deteriorate. Don't trip! If you fall your hip will shatter into a bajillion pieces.
- You get old and wrinkly and develop brownspots.
- All your friends and siblings die.
- Your wife [if you're one of the few who remains committed to each other and the marriage has survived to this point] dies.
- Maybe one of your kids dies prematurely (diabetes, heart disease or cancer).
- You tell everyone that you'll stay active in retirement but that much is a very big lie. Perhaps for the first couple years you are "lively" but then as your body slows down it all goes to hell. From about 60-80 (your last 20 years) you sit around talking about how everything is so expensive. The highlight of your day is your garden and playing a little bridge. Buying a new "toy" is the latest brand of depends adult diapers.

Aging sucks from my point of view 😛
 
really really big fish in really really large bodies of water.

the scene in Cast Away where he is on the raft and the whales are next to him - absolutely terrifying for me. ditto for Open Waters.
 
Heights, Spiders (or most bugs for that matter), Fire, Death and.. yeah, that's about it.

Edit: Add Drowning
 
seeing surgery on TV

I had no problem peeking over the curtain when my wife was getting a C-section (hell, I even took some pics as they were pulling my son out of her gut), but man do I cringe when they show surgery on TV
 
I have a gut reaction to spiders that I have to work hard to overcome (and sometimes can't). I am grateful my husband does not share this fear and he is happy to transport them outside. We have an agreement that if rodents ever invade our home, that's MY job 😉
 
Claymation.

Man, that's some freaky !#$.

Well, that and the Asian women drivers in SUV's at Focus Plaza in Southern California. Fear that.
 
Originally posted by: Landroval
I have a gut reaction to spiders that I have to work hard to overcome (and sometimes can't). I am grateful my husband does not share this fear and he is happy to transport them outside. We have an agreement that if rodents ever invade our home, that's MY job 😉
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lol. Me and my wife have the reverse. I'm terrified of spiders, she's terrified of rodents.

The other day we flipped an old dog house over on its side so we could move it and we discovered a little red racer snake under it. My wife screamed (twice). It was my job to move the snake so we could continue. But I had a hard time of it. Why? Because there was a big ass spider on the underside of the dog house so that to pick up the snake I had to pass near this shiny spider that looked like a giant chocolate covered raisin with smooth, hard legs.

It was a real Halloween moment during spring cleaning.
 
Originally posted by: Maetryx
Originally posted by: Landroval
I have a gut reaction to spiders that I have to work hard to overcome (and sometimes can't). I am grateful my husband does not share this fear and he is happy to transport them outside. We have an agreement that if rodents ever invade our home, that's MY job 😉
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lol. Me and my wife have the reverse. I'm terrified of spiders, she's terrified of rodents.

The other day we flipped an old dog house over on its side so we could move it and we discovered a little red racer snake under it. My wife screamed (twice). It was my job to move the snake so we could continue. But I had a hard time of it. Why? Because there was a big ass spider on the underside of the dog house so that to pick up the snake I had to pass near this shiny spider that looked like a giant chocolate covered raisin with smooth, hard legs.

It was a real Halloween moment during spring cleaning.
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I don't think I could have done it :Q One time my coworkers, knowing my fear, put a dead cane spider under my chair at work as a practical joke.
eeeeek!. After seeing it, instead of getting up and leaving the room like a normal arachnophobe, I *quite involuntarily* fell to the ground and began to crawl away while shrieking. Thankfully it was about 6am so only one other person was there (it would have been a professional horror to do that with all the bigwigs around). He came and "battled" it for a few minutes before telling me it was safe to come back in. Only later did I find out it was already dead 😱 I dread the day I lose my composure on the job like that again!
 
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