I don't know Edmonton but can imagine...my scary thing is taking a LGV1 job with city centre store deliveries, first day on the job was passing a train station and genuinely had the thought of abandoning it, getting the train home, handing the keys back in and telling them their truck was next to the train station!
Doing things that scare you
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I don't know Edmonton but can imagine...my scary thing is taking a LGV1 job with city centre store deliveries, first day on the job was passing a train station and genuinely had the thought of abandoning it, getting the train home, handing the keys back in and telling them their truck was next to the train station!
Soldato
Telling my Mrs that I was to spend 600 or 700 quid on a new gpu.
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Walking around some parts of London* that's full of those Uber Prius drivers that have only read a highway code book for a country with one road and no road signs + those that have been given a phone + electric bike and tasked with breaking all road traffic rules, while delivering Brads Zinger burger.
They scare everyone.
* Other Cities and Towns are affected as well.
They scare everyone.
* Other Cities and Towns are affected as well.
Supposed to post about being brave, not stupid.
That's just going fast. I suppose major motorbike accidents should be scary. I've written off bikes in crashes and one time was reported dead by a witness. To be honest they happen fast and I was loaded with adrenaline, particularly when somersaulting through the air watching sky and road change places. So I can't honestly say that they were scary at the time. Still hurt afterwards though.
If it scares you so much, maybe you should find a different line of work?
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I'm really not a fan of boats, kayaks, rafts etc. I'm a good swimmer but I suffer from really bad palpitations from cold water shock. It takes me ages to get in the sea or cold water without my body freaking out.
So when I was asked to help a friend out on a photoshoot, rowing his kayak out on a freezing cold Buttermere, I was very apprehensive.
I did it and didn't fall in, but in the pictures he took you can see the terror on my face.
So when I was asked to help a friend out on a photoshoot, rowing his kayak out on a freezing cold Buttermere, I was very apprehensive.
I did it and didn't fall in, but in the pictures he took you can see the terror on my face.
Soldato
Its extremely rare but I have on the very odd occasion agreed with something Nasher has said and then I have to question my sanity which scares the hell out of me
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Reminds me of being at Blackpool, and being on one of those rides which shoots you vertically up. It went up ~10ft or so and hovers in a prep section. Then this guy who worked there pointed to my mate with an alarmed expression saying the harness wasn't fastened, just as it shot up.
He was absolutely crapping himself all the way up.
Did he reach orbit?
I’m guessing he was referring to the actual world problems such as Russia/China/Middle East rather than scoring some cheap and questionable political points!
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Went over the handlebars on my bike 
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Flying. Took me 51 years to finally get on a plane.
Always terrified of the thought of being in basically a bomb, and having zero control of the situation.
But I have done it twice now in the last 12 months, and flying again in December.
I have just had to train my brain to block out the initial fear of the concept.
It used to wind me up with the people saying "It's the safest way to travel". Compared to what! Because there are a hell of a lot more vehicles on the roads than planes in the sky.
LOL I'm just a anxious wreck, sometimes
Always terrified of the thought of being in basically a bomb, and having zero control of the situation.
But I have done it twice now in the last 12 months, and flying again in December.
I have just had to train my brain to block out the initial fear of the concept.
It used to wind me up with the people saying "It's the safest way to travel". Compared to what! Because there are a hell of a lot more vehicles on the roads than planes in the sky.
LOL I'm just a anxious wreck, sometimes
Um. I think the thing I DO by choice that scares me the most is mountain biking.
Kayaking can be quite scary if the weather turns.
But mountain biking you don't really know when something bad is gonna happen.
So Ive been over the bars 3 times. Once, the worst, was 3 weeks ago. And I either cracked or bruised a rib. I'm still not totally better.
Just knowing that you could die or at worst be paralysed is scary and exciting.
This was the moment before impact on my Dji cam video.
Kayaking can be quite scary if the weather turns.
But mountain biking you don't really know when something bad is gonna happen.
So Ive been over the bars 3 times. Once, the worst, was 3 weeks ago. And I either cracked or bruised a rib. I'm still not totally better.
Just knowing that you could die or at worst be paralysed is scary and exciting.
This was the moment before impact on my Dji cam video.
Dealing with this sort of thing on trains is a nightmare. As a long term London commuter, I have a really low tolerance for it in terms of it annoying me (loud phones, hogging seats etc) but a very high tolerance for ever doing anything about it. It's mainly because I can tolerate it, and so endure it. I've read/seen/heard of too many altercations turning bad with stabbings to ever tend to step in. If it affected me or people I was travelling with directly or in terms of safety, I would step in, but usually I tend to just turn the headphones up louder, and if need be, move carriages.
Weak minded? Possibly? Still alive after commuting for nearly a decade all over London? Check.
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