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Default Mar 23, 2019 at 08:17 AM
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share your scarriest moments in life

what are they

I'll start...

at school, to get to the lunch hall, you had to walk down some stairs

well, it was summer and I could hear buzzing on the windows

I'm alergic to bees/ wasps, so naturally froze (I didn't even try to go another way)

soon another kid came along and asked me if I was okay, I couldn't respond but grabbed on to her arm

she's like I don't understand, what are you trying to do?

and I'm like... I can't go down their, their's a bee on the window cill

and she actually led me down the stairs and faced the window herself (so if the bee did start to move, it would get her and not me)

it was sooo scary and fritening
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falling off an exercise machine and discovering that afterwards I couldn't move

shout, yes, lay their in pain, yes, move?. nope

turned out I'd done something to my kneck and it took like 3 days for it to become usable
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their was one time I thought I hurt a baby

I was playing with this little girl leah (her parents were round at my mother's), throwing her over my shoulder, catching her, playing peekaboo, bouncing her on my knee, playing racing cars on the floor, and she just suddenly went limp on me and all quiet

I called her name a few times but she didn't respond, so what I decided to do was put her down on the floor gently and go tell her parents that she's unresponsive

well when I got back she was still their, just as I left her, I took her arm off the floor and said come on leah, you need to be okay for me and your mummy

what she did next litirally sent me in to shock. let go of my arm, looked at me, gave me that smile that suggests, I was fooling you, and started with this mad giggling

after I realised I didn't take the oh, okay, you got me aproach, I was so angry. I even told her parents that she was doing it to play, but it wasn't amusing

before she left I did hug her though

i'm not that mean haha
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I am glad you posted this question!

I have been in two tornadoes.

The first was when I lived in Arkansas. I was at a party. We heard the deafening roar of what sounded like a huge freight train go by. I could not hear people talking inches away from me; that is how loud it was.

Someone asked: “Where do we have railroad tracks around here?” So, someone turned a radio on and we found out a tornado has gone by.

It skipped us, but it landed on a street of several homes and obliterated every one. It flattened all. To this day, I can see that street of houses, flattened.

I remember that, but not about injuries or fatalities. There have to have been; we had no warning it was coming.

The second time I was on Highway 270 in St. Louis on my way to a doctor appointment. Rain came down so hard I had to pull over because I could not see the hood of my car.

I can’t remember how long it rained, but once it stopped, all I saw around me were cars at a dead stop on the highway. Everyone slowly got going again once we could see. A tornado hit a furniture store close to where we stopped.

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Kayaking 25 km off the coast of the main island in the Salish sea when I realise I am smack dab in the middle of a pod of Killer Whales swimming about hunting the many seals in the area. I was absolutely terrified they would get close to me and panicked at the thought one might come up from beneath and surface alongside. My heart pounded and my heart was in my throat worried I might be knocked over and unable to right myself that far from shore. Stupid stupid stupid that I was out alone in the first place; but, mania will do that to a person.

Also up there with stupidity and abject fear? Spelunking (caving) on my own and having the realisation I had neither brought along spare batteries for my head lamp nor told anyone where I was.
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share your scarriest moments in life

what are they

I'll start...

at school, to get to the lunch hall, you had to walk down some stairs

well, it was summer and I could hear buzzing on the windows

I'm alergic to bees/ wasps, so naturally froze (I didn't even try to go another way)

soon another kid came along and asked me if I was okay, I couldn't respond but grabbed on to her arm

she's like I don't understand, what are you trying to do?

and I'm like... I can't go down their, their's a bee on the window cill

and she actually led me down the stairs and faced the window herself (so if the bee did start to move, it would get her and not me)

it was sooo scary and fritening
I hear you that is very scary!! And what a sweet gesture from her to help you that way.

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I am glad you posted this question!

I have been in two tornadoes.

The first was when I lived in Arkansas. I was at a party. We heard the deafening roar of what sounded like a huge freight train go by. I could not hear people talking inches away from me; that is how loud it was.

Someone asked: “Where do we have railroad tracks around here?” So, someone turned a radio on and we found out a tornado has gone by.

It skipped us, but it landed on a street of several homes and obliterated every one. It flattened all. To this day, I can see that street of houses, flattened.

I remember that, but not about injuries or fatalities. There have to have been; we had no warning it was coming.

The second time I was on Highway 270 in St. Louis on my way to a doctor appointment. Rain came down so hard I had to pull over because I could not see the hood of my car.

I can’t remember how long it rained, but once it stopped, all I saw around me were cars at a dead stop on the highway. Everyone slowly got going again once we could see. A tornado hit a furniture store close to where we stopped.


sounds sooo scary

I'm sorry you had to go through that
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I had a day from hell when I was a young teenager, Vortex.

I was in Yosemite with my parents, and 3 super-frightening things happened on a single day there.

1. My father had the great idea to explore a highly wooded area there that happened to be near a garbage dump. It had no recognizable paths. My parents sat down to rest by a pond and I wandered off by myself. I was staring at the trunk of a large tree when - O horror of horrors - I made out a thick, cinnamon-colored fuzzy form behind the tree, protruding from each side, looking right at me. I let out a yell and ran as fast as I could toward the pond and my parents, waving my arms and pointing. Now unfortunately we had lost sight of our car and had no idea how to find it again.

[to be continued, maybe. I’m being interrupted at the moment. ]
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For those reading who bother to care, with regards to a bear, unless you have disturbed it or surprised it you are likely not in danger. Just continue on your way. Now if it does get aggressive you are best not to run. Make yourself as big looking as possible make a horrendous bit of noise (insert Celine Dion song here) and slowly back away.
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I was leaving a residential treatment center and going home. A few girls from a different unit who didn’t have good family’s were not happy at all and were very jealous of my situation. Two days before I left I could overhear them talking and saying things like “we’re gonna get her tonight.” I luckily avoided the situation by asking my unit manager if I could stay at the house for the rest of my meals instead of going to the dining hall. Now all those kids are on drugs and in jail for various reasons and I’m living a pretty good life.

But just knowing they didn’t like me and overhearing them say “we’re gonna get her”, really freaked me out. These girls were on the aggressive unit and very easily could have hurt me badly.

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I drove down to New Jersey from my home by myself. That was no problem but when I got there my breaks failed. I got the car to a dealer ship (next door to the hotel) and got it fixed but just then, my mom called and told me a massive blizzard was coming my way early.

They were talking 3 feet of snow. I was there for one day and I had nothing with me. It was too late to try to beat the storm (I had been out all day with the car and an interview).

I stayed a a cheap hotel.. it had no food. / no snacks / no drinks.

Then, then, I felt like I was getting the flu.

I had a friend in the area who I asked to help me if necessary and she said no.

I was alone, without food, without gear, facing 3 feet of snow.

But -- we got 9 inches, I found a "dennys" down the street that was opened, and my flu never really came on and went away when things looked better (probably an anxiety attack).

And that is why I will never travel in the winter. Even if I get to florida or something I could be stranded from getting back.
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For those reading who bother to care, with regards to a bear, unless you have disturbed it or surprised it you are likely not in danger. Just continue on your way. Now if it does get aggressive you are best not to run. Make yourself as big looking as possible make a horrendous bit of noise (insert Celine Dion song here) and slowly back away.
Thanks for the info WishfulThinker; I'm sure you're right. It's just that I was pretty small, and all I knew at the time about the bear was: It was on the loose, it was pretty close to me, it was much larger than I was, and it had sharp teeth and claws.

In any case, I'll be sure to take a bunch of Celine Dion recordings with me the next time I venture out.
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falling off an exercise machine and discovering that afterwards I couldn't move

shout, yes, lay their in pain, yes, move?. nope

turned out I'd done something to my kneck and it took like 3 days for it to become usable
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I was leaving a residential treatment center and going home. A few girls from a different unit who didn’t have good family’s were not happy at all and were very jealous of my situation. Two days before I left I could overhear them talking and saying things like “we’re gonna get her tonight.” I luckily avoided the situation by asking my unit manager if I could stay at the house for the rest of my meals instead of going to the dining hall. Now all those kids are on drugs and in jail for various reasons and I’m living a pretty good life.

But just knowing they didn’t like me and overhearing them say “we’re gonna get her”, really freaked me out. These girls were on the aggressive unit and very easily could have hurt me badly.
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That must have been terrifying! I am glad it got straightened out.


oh so am I!

even after it was fixed, my kneck would tighten at random moments (usually during class)
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I had a day from hell when I was a young teenager, Vortex.

I was in Yosemite with my parents, and 3 super-frightening things happened on a single day there.

1. My father had the great idea to explore a highly wooded area there that happened to be near a garbage dump. It had no recognizable paths. My parents sat down to rest by a pond and I wandered off by myself. I was staring at the trunk of a large tree when - O horror of horrors - I made out a thick, cinnamon-colored fuzzy form behind the tree, protruding from each side, looking right at me. I let out a yell and ran as fast as I could toward the pond and my parents, waving my arms and pointing. Now unfortunately we had lost sight of our car and had no idea how to find it again.

[to be continued, maybe. I’m being interrupted at the moment. ]


sounds scary, mopey

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Some of my scariest moments caused an adrenaline rush that lastest for hours. A few of examples:

Going skydiving--when they opened the door and the air rushed in, what a good scare. Scuba diving--when we anchored at a sandbar on the way to a remote island to explore, the current nearly carried us away. I had to swim so hard to the anchor line that I ran out of air and had to share with my H to make it to the top. There was no time to be scared but when I got to the top alive--there was that awesome adrenaline rush. Driving during my youth--I would go as fast as possible on mountain roads simply to produce that lovely adrenaline rush. Being stranded on a remote road during the cold winter in the mountains--we kept having to push the car to get it to start (and it kept us warm)--when we eventually made it home--what a great feeling!

There were some bad scary moments too that have kept me up during the night--they all involved sexual encounters or escapes from men.
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Once I was in a car accident without my seatbelt on and my fiance at the time flipped us. It happened really fast but I remember screaming. We flipped so fast that even though I had no seatbelt on the only thing I ended up with was six stitches in my nose. The golf club in the truck bed didnt even come out. The first person on the scene was a nurse and the second person on the scene was an EMT that was my neighbor. How cool is God? I was 18.

When I was 14 I was playing with a jaw breaker candy in my mouth. I ended up inhaling it and it got stuck. I looked at everyone around me but I couldnt speak. I panicked. I ran into the kitchen and got the largest cup I could find filled it with water and started chugging. It dislodged it into the right pipe!
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I don't know -- maybe having crippling social anxiety all my life and living in constant fear ... maybe it helped when I had a physical crisis ... it was a problem with obvious physical solutions ... so I simply did those things. I dunno.

So I guess the next time you see someone with the outward appearance of keeping it together and being calm in a situation ... you have no idea how much of a mess they may be underneath it all, just like so many of us.
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I have had so many.....

The summer I graduated from high school my parents decided we should go to Yellowstone. There was a mommy bear & her cub in the street surrounded by people. I got out of the car to take a picture with a twin lense adjustable camera. I was standing behind the whole crowd looking into my camera. All if a sudden someone grabbed me by the arm & pulled me. I looked up from the camera & saw mommy bears paw swiping right at where I had been. I was safe but that was a close call.

Fast forward to my career which programmed military computer systems. I had a business trip to Macon Georgia's AF base. We flew from LAX to Atlanta then took a very tiny plane that barely flew higher than the tops of the trees. That was all uneventful. After days of meetings we headed back to Atlanta. Got on the jet to head back to LAX. The plane got almost to the end of the runway & came to a screeching halt instead of taking off. Everything inside the plane went flying forward that wasn't seat belted in. The stewardesses were white as sheets trying to recover. Turned out the pilot told us that an engine warning light went off at the last point to abort the take off & we were going to taxi back to the terminal & they would let us know what we were to do after they had it checked out. Turned out it was a faulty warning light & our business group ended up flying that plane back to LAX. When all the sudden stopping was happening we had no idea what was going on or if there was something more serious than just the screeching halt. Everyone was frightened at the moment it was happening. Glad it was nothing serious but it sure makes one stop & think about how safe planes really are.

So that is just a couple of the many scariest moments if my life...could probably write a book if these too.

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