What scares the crap out of you?

[Russic]

Forgive the spelling errors. I need to get some work done and don't have time to proof.

The shark thing always gets me. Less so now because I can rationalize better than when I was a wee lad. I just hate the feeling that something could be swimming below me without my knowledge. I still do stupid things like get freaked out when weeds brush against my leg in Sylvan Lake. Last I checked there weren't too many alpha predators in Alberta lakes.

My big one nowadays is mice. When I was a teenager we lived in Edgemont overlooking a very nice marsh/park/valley thing. Every year my mom would put out mouse poison as the park was clearly a mouse haven. Every now and then one would find its way into our house and would be dealt with efficiently.

One year my folks decided to sell. In the busyness of getting things ready my mom neglected to put out the poison (along with other staples of the spring season). This would prove to be a horrible, horrible mistake.

My mom had this ridiculous styrofoam rooster with a motion activated rooster call. My room was in the basement at the time, and being a teenager I would sleep in often. One day my dad decided to be a smart ass and throw something at the rooster, setting it off at 9am on a saturday. I got up, tore the motion sensor out of the rooster and tossed it in the corner.

About a week later I'm on my computer at 2am and suddenly the rooster sound goes off. That is probably the only time I'll ever find a rooster yell to be absolutely terrifying. I looked over slowly to see a mouse standing on the sensor I had tossed in the corner of the room.

That was the last mouse sighting for a couple of weeks. My folks were going out of town and my girlfriend at the time was going to come over and stay the night for the first time (giggity). Naturally I was quite excited. We were in my bed and things were progressing just swimmingly when I kept hearing what I thought was somebody scratching at the door. It was loud enough that we had to take a moment to figure it out. Walking around the room we couldn't determine if it was actually in my room or in the bathroom next to it. I figured finally it was probably a cat outside the window in the bushes, so I went outside to inspect. Through the window I could see my girlfriend studying the wall very closely, and she put her ear against it. I gave the outside stucco a little kick and almost immediately she jumped back about 3 feet. There were mice in the walls and they were everywhere.

Then things started making sense. The little noises you'd hear weren't just branches blowing against the house. I started thinking about my bathroom fan that seemed to be catching on something. I figured it had loosened and was nicking a piece of plastic. I walked into my bathroom, turned it on and stood underneath. Within about 10 seconds I started getting pelted with mouse sh*t. It wasn't nicking plastic, it was a high mouse traffic area and they were sh*tting near the blades and it was sucking it in and launching it down into my bathroom.

My mom called an exterminator (I still remember it was Abel). The guy showed up and was incredibly nice. He said he felt embarrassed that nobody told my mom that they generally only do large jobs, but that he'd help her out anyway. He came prepared to do a warehouse, so he had feed stations that could murder an army. Inside each station was 4 large spikes similar in size to sidewalk chalk. A mouse would need to eat 10% of it's body weight to die, and seeing as they are lightweights to begin with, each spike could kill a bunch of them. He dispersed them throughout the basement and the outside and made an appointment to return the following week.

When he made it back the next weekend he looked shocked. I walked out onto the front lawn to see every feed station he had, totally empty. He'd seen warehouses not require that much poison.

The house would sell not long after and my parents moved into the middle of a giant field near Okotoks. They have 5 cats now that do nothing but patrol and kill. I love cats.

[bomber317]

Chucky

[MoneyGuy]

Originally Posted by Muta

Marriage.

Divorce. I figure after 33 years in a stable relationship I should be safe.

To the person who said sharks, I dive and my goal is to encounter a shark. Not a Great White, but if you avoid those buggers the risk of sharks is overrated. My son was diving in Thailand and had one swim between his legs. That's what I want.

Originally Posted by Hack&Lube

My own failings like procrastination.

Man, I was going to say that a couple of days ago. I read a book instead.

[Hemi-Cuda]

Originally Posted by Russic

Forgive the spelling errors. I need to get some work done and don't have time to proof..

proceeds to write short story on fears

[Flabbibulin]

Flying... the crap thing is I fly quite often as well. Typically grind my teeth through the majority of the flight and drink like a fish just to relax- there is no fear of dying after all when you're drunk.

I regularly dream of being in a plane crash.

[CaptainCrunch]

waking up one morning with a killer hangover and my arm trapped under a naked Rita McNeil

[Misterpants]

Originally Posted by CaptainCrunch

waking up one morning with a killer hangover and my arm trapped under a naked Rita McNeil

Mods I think CC made a mistake Please move this into the "Things that make me happy thread".

[Cecil Terwilliger]

Originally Posted by Burn13

zombies.

Nice avatar! For a second there, I was like "wtf, I'm not afraid of zombies".



Oh, I'm scared of spiders, the unknown and children.

[dissentowner]

Nothing. Yes, I know that is not normal. Actually I can think of something, something very bad happening to one of my kids, like a car accident or something.

[Nyah]

Hi! Longtime lurker on CP and this is my first post. What scares the crap outta me is creepy porcelin dolls with realistic hair & stuff. My Grandma used to have a massive collection of SUPER creepy dolls - in her living room. Everytime we went over there I was forced to sit in a room full of creepy dolls looking at me. UGGGHHHH....

[Displaced Flames fan]

1. Never moving back home.
2. Declining mail volume

[octothorp]

Originally Posted by GreatWhiteEbola

Japanese Spider Crabs...

I didn't know they existed until today.

Let me guess... you were looking at that link that somebody posted where it shows the scale of a whole bunch of different things, you saw Japanese Spider Crabs listed as being bigger than a human. You didn't believe it, you googled it, and got totally freaked out. Because that's what happened to me... although I can't decide if they're awesome or scary.

Originally Posted by Hack&Lube

My own failings like procrastination.

Yeah, honestly this is the sort of thing that keeps me awake at night.

[Dion]

MRI head scans. I get this done once a year and I need to be sedated before they put me in the tube. I hate small spaces.

[undercoverbrother]

Originally Posted by Dion

MRI head scans. I get this done once a year and I need to be sedated before they put me in the tube. I hate small spaces.

is it just the machine or any small spaces?

[FiftyBelow]

Cancer: Everyone knows someone who's been affected by the illness. It always seems like the odds are definitely against you if you are diagnosed with it. It's not the likelihood of death that gets me though... more like the pain and suffering that you'd have to endure to fight it.

Snakes: Self explanatory

Failure: I know that everyone says that failure isn't necessarily a bad thing and that we often learn from them. However, I still fear it. I'm speaking more along the lines of my career. I have huge aspirations and always fear that I might choke or accidentally make some career damaging mistake.

"Forever Alone": Hilarious meme... but what if? I tend to be a type A personality... someone's who's always on the move, planning things, and extremely goal oriented. I want something so bad that I've often put aside relationships for the sake of work. After it's all said and done what if I end up alone because I've never put aside the time to meet that "someone."

[GreatWhiteEbola]

Originally Posted by Dion

MRI head scans. I get this done once a year and I need to be sedated before they put me in the tube. I hate small spaces.

I have had probably 15 MRI's over the years, fully immersed in to the tube. I have never had an issue, until my last one. I had a full on panic attack...had to shut it down for a few minutes, to extract me while I caught my breathe.

[Hemi-Cuda]

Originally Posted by octothorp

Let me guess... you were looking at that link that somebody posted where it shows the scale of a whole bunch of different things, you saw Japanese Spider Crabs listed as being bigger than a human. You didn't believe it, you googled it, and got totally freaked out. Because that's what happened to me... although I can't decide if they're awesome or scary. .

jesus christ...

NSFW!

kill it with fire

[Nyah]

Originally Posted by GreatWhiteEbola

Japanese Spider Crabs...

I didn't know they existed until today.

I didn't know they existed until you posted that & I Googled it. They scare the crap outta me too.

[burn_this_city]

Looks kind of like the egg layer from Aliens, would probably be a pain to get the meat out of those spindly arms.

[Cheerio]

1. Spiders
2. Open water (Thank you dad for showing me the perfect storm when I was ~10)
3. Clowns (bad experience when I was 1 or 2 ruined them forever)
4. Heights (not the thought of being high up, but my stupid brain saying hey it would be fun to jump off! or push someone off)
5. Dying before my parents