Working as an electrician in a past life, I was taught to turn away every time a piece of equipment is energized for the first time in case of a fault. The resulting flash could damage your eyes...kinda like welders flash I think.
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Eakins wasn't a bad coach, the team just had 2 bad years, they should've been more patient.
Heights (not too bad)
Skunks (I just have to smell it and I freak out)
Ticks (I've seen 2 in my life: 1 on my dog and the other on my kids leg. Now I just have to see a pic and I want to barf)
Spiders (I see one and I piss myself a little)
I have a fear of tight spaces. I have these dreams where i'm crawling through a very tight space in a cave and I get stuck. I start to panic as I can't move and then I wake up in a cold sweat.
I'm the total opposite. I'm fine with tight spaces, but the thought of being stranded in the middle of the ocean with no land anywhere in sight really freaks me out. Or if I'm underwater in the ocean and all I see is endless water with no bottom.
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That I missed or failed a course at university 20 years ago and they just found out and decide to take away my professional credentials.
Oh, do you also get the dream where you have a final exam for a course that you somehow forgot you were taking? I graduated almost a decade ago now and I still get that.
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Oh, do you also get the dream where you have a final exam for a course that you somehow forgot you were taking? I graduated almost a decade ago now and I still get that.
just to prepare you- 29 years removed from undergrad, 20 years from my last exam of any kind- still get this dream at least monthly
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Oh, do you also get the dream where you have a final exam for a course that you somehow forgot you were taking? I graduated almost a decade ago now and I still get that.
I used to teach at a university and I still have dreams it's five minutes to class and I can't find my pants.
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I nearly lost my leg to a pressure washer incident.
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After the Flood in 2013 I was helping my dad clean-up flood damage at the ranch. I was using a pressure-washer to clean out the stable, wearing just shorts and sandals. I set the wand down, and somehow it got triggered and started flailing around - the stream cut a gash across my leg like a sword, blood gushing out every time my heart beat. My dad gave me first aid, and I seemed ok for a day or two. Then, my leg got very sore and swollen, and the emergency doctors were worried I had flesh eating disease. There was talk of amputating my leg, but first they tried antibiotics to see what would happen. Turns out my leg was not infected, but my leg was swollen just from the trauma of the pressure wound. I was able to go home a few days later on crutches
Wow, man. That's nucking futs. Glad it turned out okay.
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Blowing up balloons. +/- 20 years ago I was blowing one up, it popped, giving me a black eye and scratched cornea. Had blurry vision for a few weeks and it's been sensitive on and off ever since. I always carefully guard my face now.. or even wear safety goggles.
Putting air in tires. I imagine the tire blowing up and tearing me to shreds, allowing me to bleed out while in intense pain on my driveway floor.
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Living a perfectly sound and pleasant life, full of loved ones and comforts, yet dying unsatisfied that I never really did anything to deal with the dread of it all.
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No, no…I’m not sloppy, or lazy. This is a sign of the boredom.
What's your cereal of choice right now? I bounce between shreddies, rice krispies and cheerios. Right now I'm in a hardcore shreddies phase.
Sometimes Kashi is on sale and I really like one particular flavour they have. I load up on that when the price is right.
I'm hard on the Special K right now. Quaker had a corn squares cereal for a while that was a poor man's Captain Crunch but with less sugar so that was good. But I haven't seen that one for a while. And then Kellog's Just Right for ever other box. Variety is key.
While it's based on a fear of heights, I can't walk onto a balcony or lean against a railing above 2 stories out of fear it will give way. I've even leaned against a concrete half-wall in a 2 story parking structure and had my knees go weak.
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I'm hard on the Special K right now. Quaker had a corn squares cereal for a while that was a poor man's Captain Crunch but with less sugar so that was good. But I haven't seen that one for a while. And then Kellog's Just Right for ever other box. Variety is key.
Holy crap, I forgot about Just Right. I'm going to put that on my grocery list. That's a top notch cereal.
I loved Special K until they changed the recipe a few years ago and made the bigger flakes. Now I'm no longer a fan.
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