Things you used to be scared of, but not now (1 Viewer)

[Treynwreck3]

Snakes. I was deathly afraid of snakes. Had bad dreams about them, freaked out when I came across anything that looked like a snake...I was a mess. Then I got bit by a rattler. Now they just piss me off.

 

[Officer Pete Malloy]

1st graders

 

[FreeBaGeL]

Snakes for me also.

Oh wait they're still terrifying to me.

Heights though. Overcame my fear of heights. Going to put the final nail in that coffin in November with the Angel's Landing knife edge hike in Zion.

 

[Raider Nation]

Dying.

 

[Fennis]

High level execs at Fortune 500 companies

 

[otello]

Towering Inferno

 

[Binky The Doormat]

The monsters that were in my closet when I was growing up.

They are still there, I just moved away.

 

[Fennis]

USSR

 

[Hov34]

Trannies

 

[James Bond]

Snakes, Huh? You know what Freud would say about that.

 

[Leviathan]

Sharks.

After begging my parents to go see Jaws, they finally relented. I didn't sleep for a week after watching that film. Years later I was reluctant to swim in a freshwater lake because of that movie.

Sure, I'm still wary of them when I'm fishing out on the ocean, but I'm not in the least bit terrified of them like used to be.

 

[Drunken Poster]

Horror movies featuring ventriloquist dummies

 

[higgins]

For you guys that are saying snakes, can you please tell us what and how you feel when you watch the following recently FFA linked videos? Prose, soliloquy-style or just plain banter. Just curious...

1 - bad

2 - worse

 

[Officer Pete Malloy]

Tylenol laced with cyanide

 

[Zegras11]

Dying.

 

[Zow]

Dogs. Was scared to death of them. Literally ran away upon seeing a big one until about 18.

Married a girl with two pit bulls. One is laying on my foot right now. That's helped a bunch.

 

[Officer Pete Malloy]

Someone rear-ending my Pinto.

 

[Fennis]

Falling off the edge of the world.

 

[ChainsawU]

What is it like to get bit by a rattlesnake.

 

[Officer Pete Malloy]

Bruce Jenner hitting on my wife.

 

[Courtjester]

Floating away at night. For some reason when I would step outside at night, I worried gravity would just stop holding me down and I would just float off into space. I always tried to stay under some overhang or hang onto something.

 

[jamny]

Zombies

 

[Binky The Doormat]

Bruce Jenner hitting on my wife.

How's your wife feel about it?

 

[jamny]

Being buried alive

No wait...I'm still scared of that.

 

[Evilgrin 72]

LSD

 

[tjnc09]

Volcanos. I read a book about Pompeii in elementary school and it scared the crap out of me.

 

[Das Boot]

Volcanos. I read a book about Pompeii in elementary school and it scared the crap out of me.

You probably shouldn't look at this painting then.

 

[Mister CIA]

Mike Tyson.

 

[Officer Pete Malloy]

Bruce Jenner hitting on my wife.

How's your wife feel about it?

I haven't asked.

 

[Jayrod]

Heights. I still get tense on high ledges, but I don't freak like I used to. I'm 100% calm at like 2-4 stories up, but 5+ stories gives me the spine tinglies.

 

[Jayrod]

Bruce Jenner hitting on my wife.

Sorry dude, she still likes women.

 

[Wooderson]

Being buried alive

No wait...I'm still scared of that.

Cremation solves that.

 

[Insein]

Spiders

 

[Hastur]

What is it like to get bit by a rattlesnake.

Probably just like getting bit by a first grader. Terrified you at first, but now just piss you off.

 

[AAABatteries]

Had tubes put in my ears 5 times as a kid. So I was afraid to swim - didn't learn until I was a teenager but now I swim all the time for exercise and will swim in the ocean or in a lake.

 

[offdee]

Snakes. I was deathly afraid of snakes. Had bad dreams about them, freaked out when I came across anything that looked like a snake...I was a mess. Then I got bit by a rattler. Now they just piss me off.

You were deathly afraid of snakes and then you actually came face to face and bitten by a rattlesnake? What was it like in that moment before bite impact? I can't imagine your underwear was still clean afterwards.

 

[Kal El]

I used to be afraid of lightning and thunder, much like many kids. Now I love thunderstorms.

 

[belljr]

I'm weird with heights.

Working on my roof or airplane for example doesn't bother me. On top of a stopped ferris wheel I get nervous.

 

[Treynwreck3]

What is it like to get bit by a rattlesnake.

It feels well below average. I got tagged by a four footer that was as big around as my arm. Hurt like hell. Felt like somebody hit me with a cane. Pop! Spent eleven days in the hospital. Lost 286 grams of muscle mass in my right calf. Got lucky.

 

[Treynwreck3]

Snakes. I was deathly afraid of snakes. Had bad dreams about them, freaked out when I came across anything that looked like a snake...I was a mess. Then I got bit by a rattler. Now they just piss me off.

You were deathly afraid of snakes and then you actually came face to face and bitten by a rattlesnake? What was it like in that moment before bite impact? I can't imagine your underwear was still clean afterwards.

Bit me on my right calf. Never saw the ******* until after he hit me.

 

[Flying V]

Poontang. Got over it when I was 16.

 

[-fish-]

public speaking. used to hate it and get very anxious. now I enjoy it.

 

[Officer Pete Malloy]

Snakes. I was deathly afraid of snakes. Had bad dreams about them, freaked out when I came across anything that looked like a snake...I was a mess. Then I got bit by a rattler. Now they just piss me off.

You were deathly afraid of snakes and then you actually came face to face and bitten by a rattlesnake? What was it like in that moment before bite impact? I can't imagine your underwear was still clean afterwards.

Bit me on my right calf. Never saw the ******* until after he hit me.

Isn't that kinda how snake bite usually happen?

 

[ChainsawU]

Snakes. I was deathly afraid of snakes. Had bad dreams about them, freaked out when I came across anything that looked like a snake...I was a mess. Then I got bit by a rattler. Now they just piss me off.

You were deathly afraid of snakes and then you actually came face to face and bitten by a rattlesnake? What was it like in that moment before bite impact? I can't imagine your underwear was still clean afterwards.

Bit me on my right calf. Never saw the ******* until after he hit me.

Isn't that kinda how snake bite usually happen?

Coral snakes, copperheads and rattlesnakes don't come and seek you out. They need to be provoked. Cottonmouths are the most aggressive of the four venomous snakes in Texas so those are the ones you need to look out for. The one redeeming quality of a rattlesnake is that he's usually gentlemanly enough to give you an audible warning when he feels threatened.

 

[Cliff Clavin]

Carnies.

 

[Jayrod]

Carnies.

Small hands, smell like cabbage.

 

[Leviathan]

Bigfoot.

When my family lived in the Pacific Northwest, my dad would take me out on weekend excursions. We went to areas where Bigfoot sightings were reported. I was terrified.

 

[Das Boot]

Carnies.

That's not a fear one ever gets over.

 

[Officer Pete Malloy]

Snakes. I was deathly afraid of snakes. Had bad dreams about them, freaked out when I came across anything that looked like a snake...I was a mess. Then I got bit by a rattler. Now they just piss me off.

You were deathly afraid of snakes and then you actually came face to face and bitten by a rattlesnake? What was it like in that moment before bite impact? I can't imagine your underwear was still clean afterwards.

Bit me on my right calf. Never saw the ******* until after he hit me.

Isn't that kinda how snake bite usually happen?

Coral snakes, copperheads and rattlesnakes don't come and seek you out. They need to be provoked. Cottonmouths are the most aggressive of the four venomous snakes in Texas so those are the ones you need to look out for. The one redeeming quality of a rattlesnake is that he's usually gentlemanly enough to give you an audible warning when he feels threatened.

But wouldn't it be safe to say that the overwhelming majority of snakebites happen because the victim didn't see the snake?

"Hey, look...it's a rattlesnake. I think I'm going to get real close to it and maybe even try to pet it...OW!"

 

[Das Boot]

Snakes. I was deathly afraid of snakes. Had bad dreams about them, freaked out when I came across anything that looked like a snake...I was a mess. Then I got bit by a rattler. Now they just piss me off.

You were deathly afraid of snakes and then you actually came face to face and bitten by a rattlesnake? What was it like in that moment before bite impact? I can't imagine your underwear was still clean afterwards.

Bit me on my right calf. Never saw the ******* until after he hit me.

Isn't that kinda how snake bite usually happen?

Coral snakes, copperheads and rattlesnakes don't come and seek you out. They need to be provoked. Cottonmouths are the most aggressive of the four venomous snakes in Texas so those are the ones you need to look out for. The one redeeming quality of a rattlesnake is that he's usually gentlemanly enough to give you an audible warning when he feels threatened.

But wouldn't it be safe to say that the overwhelming majority of snakebites happen because the victim didn't see the snake?

"Hey, look...it's a rattlesnake. I think I'm going to get real close to it and maybe even try to pet it...OW!"

Then there's snake-handling churches to factor in to the calculation.