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 Posted: Tue Jun 28, 2005 10:28 am
OMG i'm terrified of flying! Not because I'm really scared of heights, but because I'm terrified of crashing. I know i know it's safer than a car statistically blah blah blah...It still doesn't help when I'm taking off...whenwe went to New Orleans I teared up during each take-off...couldn't help it...poor kevin tried his best to keep my mind off it but to no avail.
Of course, I'm also afraid of elevators, stairs without backs. dark rooms (especially basements), boiler rooms, and the tunnel under the detroit river to go to canada....to name a few....lol
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Posted: Tue Jun 28, 2005 3:54 pm
magikjaz OMG i'm terrified of flying! Not because I'm really scared of heights, but because I'm terrified of crashing. I know i know it's safer than a car statistically blah blah blah...It still doesn't help when I'm taking off...whenwe went to New Orleans I teared up during each take-off...couldn't help it...poor kevin tried his best to keep my mind off it but to no avail. Of course, I'm also afraid of elevators, stairs without backs. dark rooms (especially basements), boiler rooms, and the tunnel under the detroit river to go to canada....to name a few....lol ok..glad to see that i am not the only one....other then the tunnel under the detroit river(never been there)......but everything else....also i have a fear of tight spaces...i am very closterphobic(SP?)....once some cousins of mine locked me in a pantry and wouldnt let me out..when they finally opened the door i was curled up in the fetal position...took me a while to get over that...now i will walk into a closet but i will block the door open so it doesnt shut on me neutral
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Posted: Mon Aug 01, 2005 9:25 pm
magikjaz OMG i'm terrified of flying! Of course, I'm also afraid of elevators, stairs without backs. dark rooms (especially basements), boiler rooms, and the tunnel under the detroit river to go to canada....to name a few....lol I know I have always been afraid of flying, and 9-11-01 just reinforced my determination never to fly again... especially with the "Ooops, I cannot believe the Airport Security did not catch that" stories I have heard from two different reliable sources who ended up ON planes with (innocently) 1 w/ a switchblade and 1 w/ a Swiss Army Knife who have gotten on planes in the past year before realizing what they had in a purse or carry on. And since one was my soldier DIL who did not want to create an 'incident' by reporting herself to the flight attendant I have no doubt of the validity of the claim and her point was if she could get on innocently, who is getting what on on purpose? Yup, I know I feel real secure at that thought. eek
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Posted: Tue Aug 02, 2005 8:10 am
simlizzy I know I have always been afraid of flying, and 9-11-01 just reinforced my determination never to fly again... especially with the "Ooops, I cannot believe the Airport Security did not catch that" stories I have heard *checking to make sure I didn't talk about this already.. nope!* When I went to France with some of my high school French class before my senior year, on our way there, one of the girls was stopped in security because they thought she had Mace, which turned out to be "a big a** curling iron" as the black security lady called it. Then, on the return trip, one of the guys had his bag pulled aside, opened, and looked through for extra security, as they were doing on random bags throughout the line, and they put a nice little tag on there saying it was "extra secure." Then, just before we boarded, he remembers he bought a sword at one of the medieval shops in Carcassonne (where they filmed part of Robin Hood!), and he goes back to security to tell them. They run it again through the xray machine and can't find it. They run it through there again, two MORE times, and can't find it. Finally he opens his bag and pulls it out and says "here!" Dumbfounded, they check the bag and put it under the plane. rolleyes Of course, this was before 9-11, but still!
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Posted: Tue Aug 02, 2005 8:18 am
MysticfawN simlizzy I know I have always been afraid of flying, and 9-11-01 just reinforced my determination never to fly again... especially with the "Ooops, I cannot believe the Airport Security did not catch that" stories I have heard just before we boarded, he remembers he bought a sword at one of the medieval shops in Carcassonne (where they filmed part of Robin Hood!), and he goes back to security to tell them. They run it again through the xray machine and can't find it. They run it through there again, two MORE times, and can't find it. Finally he opens his bag and pulls it out and says "here!" Dumbfounded, they check the bag and put it under the plane. rolleyes Of course, this was before 9-11, but still! Kind of what I am talking about except it is even scarier to realize they are missing stuff after 9-11-01 as well. I know people say "If you are afraid to fly, the terrorists have won" but I was afraid to fly ANYWAY... they have not really won in my case redface in fact the older I get I am afraid of Mountain roads (I used to live in a valley SURROUNDED by mountain raods in California and loved driving them) but the strangest travel worry I have discovered lately, I get sweaty palms driving over BRIDGES whic seems funny cause a few years back I went to New Orleans and encountered many bridges while I was there and they did not phase me whatsoever...
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Posted: Tue Aug 02, 2005 8:25 am
We have another here who is afraid of bridges, and has nightmares about them. I won't name names unless she wants to come forward herself. (but she doesn't drop in often.)
I remember back when there were some big plane crashes and everybody died (when I was little) I got frustrated and asked my dad if they could just cancel all the flights in the world. He brought out a HUGE book he had upstairs, filled with teensy tiny writing.. with like a thousand PAGES of flights listed. He said this was all the flights that took off and landed every single DAY. I then saw that canceling ALL of them just because of one plane crash was not at all pheasable. And now I see that even 5 planes taken over in one day is only a grain of sand in a whole beach compared to all the flights there are, so it's so very slim that anything would happen while flying.
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Posted: Tue Aug 02, 2005 8:58 am
MysticfawN We have another here who is afraid of bridges, and has nightmares about them. I won't name names unless she wants to come forward herself. (but she doesn't drop in often.) I remember back when there were some big plane crashes and everybody died (when I was little) I got frustrated and asked my dad if they could just cancel all the flights in the world. He brought out a HUGE book he had upstairs, filled with teensy tiny writing.. with like a thousand PAGES of flights listed. He said this was all the flights that took off and landed every single DAY. I then saw that canceling ALL of them just because of one plane crash was not at all pheasable. And now I see that even 5 planes taken over in one day is only a grain of sand in a whole beach compared to all the flights there are, so it's so very slim that anything would happen while flying. My logical mind knows you are right... but then again you are talking to someone who has found the older she gets the less she even likes to leave the house redface It was absolutely mind boggling that I went to Seattle earlier this year, since it was a two day drive and hundreds of miles and a ROAD trip confused Until hubby and I got married and spent the night at Mount Charleston (about 60 miles NW of our house)the furthest he and I had ventured from home was to Boulder City (this side of Arizona/the dam) It drives hubby crazy cause he would love to travel, and I hate to leave the house... I beleive there is at least two local purkles who can vouch for me there rofl
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