What's the most scared you've ever been?

Sp00n · 5 Jan 2011 at 14:36

Hunders said:
Playing rounders at school must have been a problem

haha... sorry I meant never threw anything at a car again.

Rounders <3

Crowort · 5 Jan 2011 at 14:36

When I was on holiday in Turkey and my at the time 3 year old cousin fell in the pool and I had to go in after him.

Nitefly · 5 Jan 2011 at 14:36

Honestly, despite having one or two incidents in cars that could have ended fatally, nothing scares me more than the close presence of a common house spider. I get a very intense reaction of absolute dread and terror.

The human mind is weird

ran_out · 5 Jan 2011 at 14:38

When I was working as a site labourer, they were dropping a staircase into some flats and we had to guide it into place to avoid it damaging any of the brickwork - too many feet in one small space and my hard hat got knocked of my head - my head ended up trapped between a ton of staircase being lowered by a crane and a brick wall, scariest few seconds i can think of. I think I just started screaming for them to all lift it, they heaved it up for a second and I managed to get out before my head was crushed. It still makes me feel a bit sick sometimes when I think about it, still I got the rest of the day off so not all bad.

Morba · 5 Jan 2011 at 14:38

Nitefly said:
Honestly, despite having one or two incidents in cars that could have ended fataly, nothing scares me more than the close presence of a common house spider. I get a very intense reaction of absolute dread and terror.

The human mind is weird

Very weird is the mind. My car accident (posted pics on here ages ago) could have been a lot worse, but it didn't scare me. I think thats more to do with the fact that it happened so quick, where as spiders you have more time to think about them

Zowghi · 5 Jan 2011 at 14:39

^TANK^ said:
When I acknowledged my mum had terminal cancer just before Christmas.

Sorry to hear that mate, all the best for you and your family

ScoTTyBEEE · 5 Jan 2011 at 14:39

KNiVES said:
I'm so sorry to hear that.

The most scared I've been was when my mother collapsed out of nowhere and wouldn't respond a couple of years ago. It was so terrifying and the feeling of utter helplessness I hope I will never go through again. She's fine now.

Read about cayenne pepper preventing heart attacks. Very useful information to arm yourself with if something similar were to ever happen..

Zowghi · 5 Jan 2011 at 14:41

XRAY said:
Buggered up my first solo flight at the landing. The wheels bounced and I lost control as the plane skidded and spun off the runway. Despite the relative safety I was in, all I could think was that the plane would flip and I was about to die.

Yea I think this would have changed the colour of my undies!

ed79 · 5 Jan 2011 at 14:42

I think being diagnosed with a life threatening illness (either personally or a loved one) would scare me the most, and those who have experienced this have my sympathies.

Twentyone · 5 Jan 2011 at 14:44

I was in Spain with my family at 14 and I was walking with my 3 year old brother at this big market in the middle of Alicante. Suddently he turned difficult like kids do and wriggled out of my hand and ran off into the huge crowd. I ran around looking for him for maybe 5 minutes before running to my parents and just as I got to them he arrived there too.

Broke down on the spot as I was so relieved

My mums friend got embarrassed that I did but I'm sorry, if she couldn't see how me thinking I'd lost what I love most in this world made me cry then I feel sorry for her kids.

cm1179 · 5 Jan 2011 at 14:49

waiting for medical test results about this time 24 months ago

Nitefly · 5 Jan 2011 at 14:50

ran_out said:
When I was working as a site labourer, they were dropping a staircase into some flats and we had to guide it into place to avoid it damaging any of the brickwork - too many feet in one small space and my hard hat got knocked of my head - my head ended up trapped between a ton of staircase being lowered by a crane and a brick wall, scariest few seconds i can think of. I think I just started screaming for them to all lift it, they heaved it up for a second and I managed to get out before my head was crushed. It still makes me feel a bit sick sometimes when I think about it, still I got the rest of the day off so not all bad.

That does sound very frightening, poor you! :eek:

I know what you mean about the sense of sickness in hindsight. When I went to Hawaii, a friend of mine was driving very recklessly as we travelled up a mountain to try and beat he previous times. This involved purposefully last minute breaking and over-intense steering, which scared but generally amused us all. Off the side of the road were some extremely high steep cliffs with no crash barriers, practically this:

A year or so later me and the same driver was driving us to London for new years eve. We needed to change lanes on the motorway from the inside lane as it was a junction whereby the motorway narrows into two lanes. He purposefully left the lane change extremely late as a joke, but it certainly wasn't funny as the car lost control and we smashed into the central reservation and ended up with a totalled car in the emergency lane. Thank god there were no other cars on the road or we'd all be dead. We were all very shook up and the driver felt incredibly ashamed of his stupidity, of course we have forgiven him as friends do.

But we still both have nightmares of what could have happened so easily on those dreadful Hawaii cliffs, makes me feel ill thinking about it now

Stretch · 5 Jan 2011 at 14:53

1) Seeing my father draw his last breath in hospital.

2) Being about 5ft away from a man struck by lightning in the grounds of a palace in Istanbul

Xein · 5 Jan 2011 at 14:55

I was around the age of 7 and it was my first time flying and I was told by a friend (she was older) that my ears would pop (didn't realise what she meant) so I thought they would pop off and that scared me and apparently I cried for the whole flight there :S

And I haven't been on a plane since and I am now scared of flying which I don't want to be as I want to travel :/

ed79 · 5 Jan 2011 at 15:00

Morgoth · 5 Jan 2011 at 15:00

When I heard my dad had a heart attack, he made a full recovery thankfully, but when you think you are about to lose one of your parents...

arc@css · 5 Jan 2011 at 15:01

Nitefly said:
When I went to Hawaii, a friend of mine was driving very recklessly as we travelled up a mountain to try and beat he previous times. This involved purposefully last minute breaking and over-intense steering, which scared but generally amused us all. Off the side of the road were some extremely high steep cliffs with no crash barriers

I remember talking to some relatives just before they went on holiday to Corsica. A few weeks later I heard that through no fault of their own, the hire car they were driving went off the edge and of course, they died. What you wrote reminded me of that, you were lucky.

My worst moment perhaps is being chased (or seemingly) by a swarm of bees. Crapped myself.

Nitefly · 5 Jan 2011 at 15:07

ed79 said:
The car didn't lose control, the person driving it did. He sounds like a complete ****** but hopefully the shock taught him a lesson and he grew up a bit?

He's usually extremely sensible, but I think we all learned that day that a car was absolutely not something to play about with. I forgot to mention that we came to a rest on the motorway right next to a sign that said 'caution, road slippy'.

But yes we are still very good friends, coming over to play risk later

p.s. I'd fully star that swear word

arc@css said:
I remember talking to some relatives just before they went on holiday to Corisca. A few weeks later I heard that through no fault of their own, the hire car they were driving went off the edge and of course, they died. What you wrote reminded me of that, you were lucky.

I can only praise the heavens that no one got hurt in either of my tales - I'm very sorry to hear that

Morba · 5 Jan 2011 at 15:07

arc@css said:
I remember talking to some relatives just before they went on holiday to Corisca. A few weeks later I heard that through no fault of their own, the hire car they were driving went off the edge and of course, they died. What you wrote reminded me of that, you were lucky.

You use the right smiley there?!

ran_out · 5 Jan 2011 at 15:07

Nitefly said:
I know what you mean about the sense of sickness in hindsight.

I think it was the hindsight of it that was actually scary and the fact my ears hurt like hell for ages, as when that sort of thing happens you don't have time to be really scared while it's going on - it's afterwards when your heart slows down that the fear catches up with you.