My irrational fear is sharks, despite the fact that I grew up about as far away from an ocean as you can get, and never even stepped foot in the ocean until I was in my late 30's.
That seems like a completely rational fear. Sharks mess you up.My irrational fear is sharks, despite the fact that I grew up about as far away from an ocean as you can get, and never even stepped foot in the ocean until I was in my late 30's.
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Irrational fears include Wasps/Hornets and flying. The first one I've gotten a little better with over the years, the second one I've done before, but everytime the possibility of me flying somewhere comes up, the image of Flight 232 crashing in Sioux City pops in my head (seeing the smoke of the crash on the day it happened, combined with the constant replay of the plane crashing on the news). Don't ask how I still managed to get on a plane, the few times I have.
Irrational fears include Wasps/Hornets and flying. The first one I've gotten a little better with over the years, the second one I've done before, but everytime the possibility of me flying somewhere comes up, the image of Flight 232 crashing in Sioux City pops in my head (seeing the smoke of the crash on the day it happened, combined with the constant replay of the plane crashing on the news). Don't ask how I still managed to get on a plane, the few times I have.
I had something similar to this happen to me on an L.A. to Phoenix flight. Probably the longest, most uneasy 1.5 hour flight of my life. Every other flight I've taken has been fine with little to no turbulence, but no flight goes without a little cold sweat for me.Not a fan of flying either. A few years ago when we were coming back from Charleston, our plane started to descend into Chicago and all of a sudden did a big whoop de do with a little roll back and forth for good measure, and I could not get on the ground soon enough. Turns out we flew into the wash from a plane taking off or something.
Don't get me started on my little puddle jumper flight to Key West. All I can say is that I should not be allowed to see the pilot and the gauges. I was assessing his health and worrying over all the lights and needles for the whole trip.
oh shat, do NOT Google that, do NOT. The eye, it was IN THEIR EYE!
I was once landing in Des Moines just as a storm front came through. As we decended we hit some major shear and sitting in the back of the plane I swear I could see the cabin twist along the long axis - the nose clockwise and the tail counter clockwise. We then proceeded to land in a nasty cross wind. It felt like we were facing about 30 degrees away from the direction we were flying. Everyone was picking up their dentures from the floor after we touched down and jerked around to face the end of the runway.
Flying has never really bothered me, though.
Like I could actually resist doing da google after that teaser! ACK! :shocked: