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Originally Posted by Meditrina
I encountered another thing I fear on the way home today. I get very panicky when driving between a huge truck and those concrete barriers on the side of the highways. My knuckles turn white when I am in that situation. I feel like if that truck just moves slightly into my lane, I am going to be squished for sure. Not that this ever happened to me...
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This has never been a particular fear for me, just an uncomfortable feeling, that is until this past monday when it almost happened to me. The concrete barrier I was next to on my left doesn't have more than a three foot shoulder. I was also going around a curve at 70 mph when the semi in the right lane moved about 2 feet into my lane. I drive an '88 lincoln town car and was about a car length back from his front end, not exactly hard to see. I was forced almost into the barrier before he moved back into his lane.
I don't know if the idiot was changing lanes and saw me in time or was just drifting but I saw my life flash before my eyes and was so shocked I didn't even think to lay on the horn. Asshole. I'll stick to the right lane from now on driving that stretch everyday.
As for my fears, like many of you I am freaked out by spiders and being in deep water but not debilitatingly so.
My worst two fears are death, either my own or my husband, father or sister (I worry constantly) and heights. My fear of heights is so visceral that I can get that "dropping" butterfly feeling in my stomach just seeing a person on tv on a precipice. The famous photo of the steelworkers walking the I-beams while erecting the Empire State Building makes my knees feel like jelly.
We were watching "Man Vs. Wild" the other day and I could barely watch Bear Grillis scaling the hills while traversing the Badlands. *cringe* That man is just plain crazy. I have many nightmares where I'm in some precarious position and I am losing my grip and am going to fall (I usually jerk myself out of sleep before I do). One recurring one is weird, I'm driving on a wooded road going uphill and it gets steeper and steeper until I'm almost completely vertical and eventually the car peels backward off of the road and falls (jerk awake again). Yeah, can you tell I really hate heights.
