Oooh! I think TANGERINES are an excellent pick for you!!! Because you are so SWEET and TANGY!!!

{{{MELON PRESS}}} of the non-suffocating variety.

Yay!  Tangarines it is then! 

And thanks for not suffocating me, but I really wouldn't mind being suffocated by your  melons!  

At least not to the point of passing out... that would be a bit much

ha! I was always under the impression you were a tough guy! NOT!

   Mine are much more rational. I am scared of crickets. They can jump so high so fast and who knows what damage they can do if one landed in my hair (take a look at my pics to see how rational that fear is).
  
   The other fear is losing more fitness due my heart issues. Bugs me more most days than dying from it.

  Eels touching me in the water. Yuck.

  Bichon Frise since one bit me (3 times!) last week.

 

  blueeyedbikergirl- you just inspired me and many others w/your acknowledgment. Your spirit is really really amazing!. We would never have guessed. 

  


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1)  I'm terrified of heights.  So much so that I'll get dizzy looking at pictures where the photog is near a cliff.
2)  Elevators.

I'm sorry to hear that.  I would have never guessed that about you.  And yes, one day you will be cancer free!

made me laugh! 

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Flying in an airplane (especially over water) - I like having a bale out plan.  This fear is somewhat rational since about 7 years ago, I was on a plane that had to make an emergency landing.  I started freaking out when I saw the oxygen masks falling from the area around the little fans/lights.

Bugs, especially when they are inside.  I have been camping many times and don't mind the bugs then, but those bugs better not ever come into my apartment.

Falling - I much prefer that my feet are on the ground.  If I have to jump, I don't want to jump onto something; I would prefer to have my feet land on the ground.  (I have had surgery on my ankle 3 times and I am extremely afraid that the next injury will cause me to have great difficulty walking.)

Getting shot at work.

  OB/GyN's.

     I saw Dead Ringers.

spiders... any kind/size/color.  I have had terrible nightmares since I was a kid about them.  I used to wake up screaming for my parents to come in my rooom and check my bed for spiders.  I would dream of 2 foot wide spiders making webs between my bed and nightstand...I have pulled over on highways freaked out because of spiders walking on the inside of the windshield or dashboard, but am so afraid to actually kill them unless I can step on it on the ground... Oh now for sure I won't be getting a good night sleep tonight!!!

This...

And not a fan of rats...not scared, but REALLY don't like them. Had one run up my arm, then inside my shirt collar and out the bottom (really glad shirt wasn't tucked in...jeez)

2 seconds of frozen utter terror. I was doing a patrol at Camp McCall and we were ranger file cutting through a swamp. I was waste high in the water when I stepped forward and kept going down.  I froze and was completely terrified.

What terrified me is not drowning, but being frozen and not able to do anything about. When I go down, from no on, I will go down swinging.  (this still gives me the sweats)

Clowns.  I hate clowns.

- Snakes. They just freak me out.
- Moths. It's the mindless flapping in your face. It drives me crazy and makes me stressed.
- Losing my husband. He's the greatest thing ever, and if I lost him I don't know why I would wake up in the morning.
- Failure. This one has caused me some anxiety lately, somewhat brought on by the "Surpass your parents" thread...because I have thus far failed to obtain any of the mantles of adulthood. I just can't seem to land a "real" job, and it makes me cry just about every single day, and of course I can't buy a house because I don't have a job, and because I don't have a house I don't have a dog. Not being able to obtain the things I should really stresses me the eff out.

I am not afraid of flying, but I am afraid of heights, or rather being up high and near an edge. Just watching it on television makes feel the need for an adult diaper! I do not want to do a tri over a bridge! I have ridden over thr Bourn bridge 6 times and it has made my heart race every time!

I never knew I was afraid of heights until I visited the Cliffs of Mohr in Ireland and almost had a panic attack. That was 10 years ago and we are going back to Ireland next month and visiting the Cliffs with our kids. I will be a wreck.

Snakes make me jump and squeal when I am surprised by them. If I suspect snakes are around, I will seek them out and try to spot them, just so they can't get the upper hand on me and surprise me.

My daughter used to be terrified of Captain Feathersword.

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I have LOL'd many times reading threads on here but I have never actually spit out coffee but today I did. I'm reading this serious thread about fear and cancer and then I read this bolded part. I had to wipe off my keyboard.

For me, heights are probably my biggest fear. I get light-headed just watching something on TV when they show something high or fly over a cliff. Riding the Soarin' ride at Disney World almost put me over the edge - I'm not sure why I agreed to that ride.

Up until my early 20's, I held on to the very irrational fear that something was going to come out of my closet because of "Poltergeist".... the door had to be closed. I think I was around 7 when I saw it for the first time.

I was driving by a residential construction site and saw a guy fall from a second story top plate. It was horrifying to see, but he was amazingly OK.

For me, it's SPIDERS. Can't even look at pictures of them. The movie Arachnophobia was not a comedy in my opinion, it was a horror movie. And now that Sharyn has mentioned big, fast Florida spiders, I'm a little worried since I'm hopping on a plane to FL in 4 hours.

That makes your BT name hilarious to me.

I am not afraid of heights (I actually kind of get off on them) but steel workers freak me out.  They were building this huge building next to ours and I would look out the window and see these guys walking back and forth, carrying heavy objects, with nothing under them but a flipping beam.  Crazy fools.  I woulkd sit and watch them for what seemed like hours waiting for them to inevitably fall.  They didn't. 

1. Something happening to my kids or my husband and not being able to do anything to stop it.
2. Being buried alive. That just freaks me out thinking about it.