What are one or more of the things you'd put in your personal "Top 10 Scariest Things In Life?"?

Haha, oh yeah, I remember my daughter coming upon this giant, and I mean GIANT Oak tree right at the edge of a little narrow road with an oncoming car approaching and me seeing that there was NO ROOM for error, and she responding to my caution to slow down with ” I’m in control!”
Aaaagh! I swear we slipped between that other car and the tree ( which was on my side of the car ) by about 4 inches! Whew!

At this time in my life not much scares me anymore, not death, not taxes, not wrinkles, not being alone, but…the scariest thing is the fear of running out of money. Pretty universal I’d say. But hey, I trust in God and the Universe to keep providing, or, to show mercy and just let me die before I run out of cash. lol :-D

Dying, snakes and empty refrigerators.

Loss of group medical coverage.

Twice in my life I have found myself “unexpectedly self-employed”. On both occasions it was not the loss of income that kept me awake at night. It was the loss of medical insurance.

@janbb How about a snake in a drivers ed car?!

Today, as we were creeping down a residential road, with the truck behind us (which he NEVER saw until I hit him on the head for not using his rear view!) I mentioned he might want to speed up a little. I think he was doing 10 mph. He said, “Well, you’re the one who told me to go slow!” as he punches it past 30.
“Slow down!”
“Make up your mind!”
“Just…slow down. You’re coming up on your turn. I really need to get you out to the Fairgrounds (huge empty parking lot.)”
“Oh, I’ve gone fast,” he said. “I’ve done 80!”
“NO! I don’t want to take you to the fair grounds so you can speed! We need to work on control and smoothness!”
Jebus. You couldn’t hit 30 at the Fairgrounds before you ran into something!

The truck behind us, in fact, EVERYONE he impacted (without knowing it)...not one single person honked. Not one. One lady waited patiently while he maneuvered the car around to the tank side of the car when we stopped for gas. Took him about an hour.

The truck in question…flew up on us…assessed the situation, then backed WAAAY the hell off! By about 2 blocks! Bless their hearts!

Teaching me to drive was pretty scary for the people teaching me. I’ll also add certain rollercoasters and religious conservatives in political power.

I’m wired a little different. I get a rush off the little thrills, like almost getting into an accident. I’ve onlyknown what real fear was once, when my s/o had a bad mammogram and had to get a biopsy.

Bad medical diagnoses.

Not having enough food to eat.

I like thrills too, @Adirondackwannabe—when I’m in control of the situation!!

Bugs, the bigger the bug, the more freaked out I get.

A snake AND a June nug IN a driver’s ed car being manned by a student!

Top ten “real” things, or “horror show” stuff?

In the “horror show” category I include locked-in syndrome, full loss of motor abilities, amputations and being buried alive. Hell, just being wrapped up in sheets (even with someone I love and want to be wrapped up with) so that I can’t move my arms and legs puts me into full panic mode.

But as for real things… learning to drive the stick shift in traffic more than 40 years ago was a pissah. Oh, sure. You can look at Drummond Ave. where it intersects with Holden St. in Worcester in Google Earth, and it seems no great shakes. But even today that road would give me pause, having to stop just below the brow of the hill and pop the clutch and then merge into that homebound Worcester traffic.

Teaching my kids to drive was as nothing compared to learning to do it myself.

Dating ain’t no fun any more, either. I’ll put that near the top of the list.

Waking up on a humid summer’s night & finding a wasp perched on the end of my nob!
I’m going to go into shock right there & then :¬(

Sexual assault
Horrible pain
Cooking

—Spiders in general.
—Abuse in all it’s lovely forms.
—Allergic reaction to medication (like your eyes and tongue rolling back into your head with no control).
—When my dog has escaped and went missing – this has happened twice (once in the city during the day and once in a campground in the middle of the night).
—The thought of my loved ones dying or getting severly injured.
—Speaking in public.
—Poverty.
—Being forgotten.
—War.

Cooking? LOL! Man, it must be bad to be lumped in with the other @tinyfaery!

You have no idea. It causes panic attacks. My wife doesn’t allow me to cook.

Abuse

Deception

STD’s

Pregnancy

Sharks

Bears

@Neizvestnaya Lol I must have sports on the mind or something…for a brief moment, my brain read Sharks as the hockey team and Bears as the football team (I don’t even watch American football).

Hey…if you go to flag a response as spam and that big, fat blue Neptune dude shows up with a note that says it says “Oh, no. We couldn’t find /moderation/flag/response/2089166/.” Does that mean it’s already been flagged?

I think it must mean that user, or their comment, is dead – and you don’t have to worry your pretty little head anymore. ;)

NO I’M NOT GOING TO TAKE THE WHEEL! GET BACK UP HERE! ”

…omg. Lol.

I’m scared of worms.

I went to court once. It’s scary. Gulp. And that was youth court, imagine what adult court must be like. Getting arrested was also scary.

Being evicted.

The thought of going blind.

Some guy attacked me in the street at night once. I got away pretty easy, I think he was really fucked up on something. Nevertheless, it was scary.

I’m not suicidal or anything, but I am morbid. Sometimes I like to think about different ways to die, but I mean realistically. It gets disturbing if you think about it too long though, especially when you imagine what would happen if you messed up.

First day at a new job. I always hate that. I get all scared and nervous the night before, all the way until I get there. Some times I almost decided to not go. I felt the same as a kid when going to a new school. Especially when you don’t speak three quarters of the language spoken there…French immersion is a joke, I tell thee!

I used to be really shy before, and just the idea of talking to a store clerk or something frightened me. I’m still timid, but at least I got over the anxiety which it always brought me. This is also related to my previous first job day listing, and it also includes job interviews. Aaah, to think, I actually work with the public now.

I had a bad LSD trip before. That was bloody scary. At one point, I thought that all my bones were made out of sand, and felt really disturbed. While walking home during the Winter at night, I kept hearing the sound of a chain rattling, from far off behind me. I thought some dude with a chain wanted to strangle me or something. I kept turning around but I never saw anything. Bad trips suck.

Running out of beer. That’s almost a joke.

Forgetting to put on pants in the morning.

I thought of another one. Getting so severly brain injured/damaged that I can not think nor care for myself. That scares me a lot.

@Plucky Yeah that would suck. Being a vegetable. If that ever happens to me, I hope it’s so bad that I won’t even be aware of my own existence.

You do that often @erichw1504? There is another thread on indecent exposure around here that you might be interested in!