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04 February 2007

What are you most afraid of? →[More:]I'm starting a new job tomorrow, and feeling a bit anxious.
My worst fear though, is this recurring nightmare that I have, where I don't have enough time to complete a test, and I can see the seconds ticking by, and the only thing I can do is stay glued to the clock, cos the time's so little that I can't do anything else. Blech! I hate school.

post by: hadjiboy at: 12:03 | 35 comments

deep water and industrial sized fans

posted by youngergirl44 04 February | 12:09

currently? Tonight.

tomorrow? That I'll never live up to my potential. And that I won't care.

posted by hugsnkisses 04 February | 12:16

A cross-eyed nun with a whip and a bottle of gin.

posted by jonmc 04 February | 13:10

That my procrastination will get the better of me and I'll do poorly in college again this semesterd. This cannot happen.

posted by CitrusFreak12 04 February | 13:10

Living the rest of my life alone. Dying alone and lonely.

posted by essexjan 04 February | 13:18

(suspects that jonmc actually isn't afraid of the nun, and that it's all just a kinky thing)

posted by Zack_Replica 04 February | 13:48

1. Harm to my child
2. Harm to any of the other people I love.
3. Snakes (Yes, I KNOW that the poisonous one are few and far between. I did not say SNAKE BITE. I just don't want to be anywhere near one of those evil motherf-ers.)
4. Driving

You are not alone, jan. I think I speak for a lot of mechazens when I say that we may be words on a computer screen, but our affection for you is very real.

posted by jrossi4r 04 February | 13:57

(suspects that jonmc actually isn't afraid of the nun, and that it's all just a kinky thing)

Yeah. I need to give up my nasty habits.

posted by jonmc 04 February | 14:12

LOL jon.
My biggest fear is fire. Especially a quick moving fire. I don't know where this comes from; I've never ...oh, wait. now I remember as a child ... When I was in second grade or so, my best friend lived three or four houses away. I remember coming home one day in my mom's car and turning down our street filled with smoke. My friend's house was engulfed in flames. I remember seeing flames shooting out of the side of her home. I was so upset! We were so young - she never told me she was moving. As it turned out, they had moved just a few days before, I just didn't know it at the time. Funny, I had forgotten all about that.

posted by redvixen 04 February | 15:10

I'm living my fear.

posted by brujita 04 February | 15:17

Where to start?

- being among strangers
- losing loved ones (death or otherwise)
- loneliness
- dying by fire or drowning
- falling (but not heights)
- other people thinking I'm stupid (I don't care what else they think of me, but stupid would be very bad)

You are not alone, jan. I think I speak for a lot of mechazens when I say that we may be words on a computer screen, but our affection for you is very real.

Ditto.

posted by deborah 04 February | 15:26

1. Pain
2. Terror
3. Permanent disability or disfigurement
4. Never getting married and/or having children, and dying alone. Along with that goes buying my own funeral plot, all by itself, because there are none left where my family has plots (I just read "Stiff" by Mary Roach last night, so that's on my mind.) Or, if I fail to make my own pre-arrangements, ending up wherever people who have no one to make funeral arrangements for them end up.

posted by amro 04 February | 15:27

(And I know that chances are I won't know what happens to me after I die. But I hate to think of people saying, "How sad, she died all alone. You know, they didn't discover her body for days, and by then her cats had eaten her face off.")

Man, I'm really feeling morbid today.

posted by amro 04 February | 15:29

Following through on the decisions I make. Sweet jesus do I make bad decisions.

posted by cmonkey 04 February | 15:32

1. Dying before my children grow up.
2. Deborah's number 6.
3. jrossi's number 1.
4. hugsnkisses number 2.
5. That I'll never be content with my life.

posted by LoriFLA 04 February | 15:42

Falling into some wretched typical existance in the 'burbs with all my priorities around the fucking neighbourhood association or some shit. Never travelling again.

posted by gaspode 04 February | 15:46

Doctors. Hospitals. Needles.

Harm to people I love.

posted by Fuzzbean 04 February | 16:03

Right now I want to hurt myself--I will never look hot in a bikini, but I am not a fucking gold digger and there's nothing I can do about it now. There's been very few men who I've been attracted to, and even fewer when it's been mutual.

I'm coming to London Thursday--and I'll be there at the meetup, wherever it is.

posted by brujita 04 February | 16:13

This is probably going to come out all wrong, but I'm really afraid that my kids will be stupid.

posted by chrismear 04 February | 16:16

What are you most afraid of?

The death of Humanity by Stupidity. Or simply death by Stupidity, particularly my own.

A cross-eyed nun with a whip and a bottle of gin.

Send them all this way, Jon. Much obliged.

posted by loquacious 04 February | 16:19

And now I'm afraid that brujita will be trying to marry me for my money at the meet-up. Or not. Or something.

posted by chrismear 04 February | 16:20

Money's not really the issue here.

posted by brujita 04 February | 17:33

Life.

posted by dg 04 February | 17:46

Not having enough money to live on when I retire.

posted by TheDonF 04 February | 17:59

Success. And failure.

posted by court siem 04 February | 18:28

Cancer.

posted by Doohickie 04 February | 20:08

The Dreyfus affair, happening to me.

posted by catfry 04 February | 20:32

Conformity.

posted by Eideteker 04 February | 23:48

I've lived through it. I really don't have fears so much as triggers to anger.

posted by arse_hat 04 February | 23:59

Failure.

Both never being able to think of myself as truly independent, and always being alone.

posted by casarkos 05 February | 00:19

That the Middle East conflict will escalate into World War 3, wasting the lives of millions more people including mine.

Other than that there is a gnawing fear that my single-purpose cutlery is embarrassingly quaint and possibly unsafe.

posted by bigblueroom 05 February | 00:33

jellyfish.

posted by lonefrontranger 05 February | 00:35

currently? Tonight.

So, are you still alive?

posted by chrismear 05 February | 06:16

I don't talk or even think about what really scares me, because either I'm a superstitious twit, or a fabulous mental hygienist, and believe that opening those doors in my head will not wendell.

posted by taz 05 February | 08:04

Falling into some wretched typical existance in the 'burbs with all my priorities around the fucking neighbourhood association or some shit.

Won't happen, love. You'll end up part of the underground resistance like the mister and myself. That mostly means you display unpopular campaign signs during election season and don't mow your lawn nearly enough. Small things, to be sure, but a huge thorn in the side of Republican lawn-lovers everywhere.

Fight the power!

posted by jrossi4r 05 February | 09:48

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