What could you NOT do, even if your life depended on it?

[QueenOfOversharing]

LIGHTHEARTED

After commenting on another thread that my worst nightmare would be to have to dive underwater & resurface somewhere else. You always see it in films & they look like they’ll run out of air. Or they do it on Bushtucker Trials.

I can’t even watch it on tv / a film - gives me such anxiety. It is related to a PTSD issue, so that makes it maybe a bit more understandable, but I’m not sure I could do it, even if my life depended on it. Obviously, I’d have to try... 😬

What, if anything, would you struggle with?

Omg I think about loads of scenarios that I'd struggle with...

I can't drive and panic that I have to escape a murderer but I don't know how to drive

Also I wear contact lenses and would struggle being lost in the jungle/at sea etc...

Also when people dangle over the edge but pull themselves up...I couldn't do that..

I also can't run fast

And I can only swim by doing a leisurely breaststroke... so wouldn't be able to outswim a shark or anything..

That should be ‘and I don’t bat an eyelid’ of course!

And re motorways - it’s the lorries, the speed, changing lanes. The fear that I could make one wrong move and kill us all.

I have been in a pretty bad accident on the motorway with a lorry so that hasn’t helped but I was already scared prior to that.

Heights. Just heights. Went up the CNN Tower years ago and had full on panic attack. Actual snotty sobbing and collapsed on the floor. DH had to go all manly and pick me up and carry me like a baby

Worryingly I really wouldn't have a problem killing someone to protect myself or my family. Infact I would probably volunteer depending how bad my PMS was.

daysoflight
Have sex with Quentin Tarantino or David Walliams. Death suddenly looks the best

I hear you. Add Trump and Boris to that list. 《 not envy!

Give up my cats and rabbits 😭

I’m very good in an emergency and seem to go into hyper efficient mode so lots of scenarios involving heights etc would be ok. I’d struggle with animal-related things like snakes though.

• Run a mile
• Same as other pp's in terms of pull myself up if I was dangling over an edge

Basically anything to do with fitness

I’m with you all on the pull up thing. I’m actually really strong, can lift quite heavy weights in the gym and easily do dips but pulling myself off the ground is a no (and no I’m not that heavy). Why???? Am I lacking in a specific pulley uppy muscle.

Oh I couldn’t have sex with a bloke with no or little chest hair!

I am 35 and therefore should know better, I am still terrified of the deep end of swimming pools, including the one that my dd has lessons in, it comes up to my shoulders if I stand up, but still get the fear and leg it back to the shallow end (up to my knees!) in case I get eaten...

I used to be on the swimming team at school, and represented the county a few times, probably because I swam as if a shark was chasing me... I watched a James Bond where the vents to the pool opened and sharks swam in when I was about ten... ugh. Sharky fuckers shudder

Whistle

Blow up a balloon

I am not sure it's fair that sex with Trump counts for the purpose of this thread. That is in the category of burning my own house down with the pets inside....

i’ve walked under a cruise ship in a dry dock, it was amazing.

in horror movies, it always seems to me that everyone has done months of cardio in case dreadful things happen to them.

faced with certain death, i would just sit down and sulk until it was over. fuck running. fuck it in the ear.

Oh oh oh, and also remembered I am terrified of a) children b) dogs and c) horses... I currently have a dog and a child, horse went into retirement a year ago...

Clearly I am basically a weird sadist...

Touch my toes.

Be in a room full of flapping birds

Go into a room with water pipes in it. High level WCs make me almost pass out

I'm terrified of going under noisy things like bridges or underground car parks

I can't cope with people being behind me, especially if they move around the back of my head. I hit my teacher once as he was handing work back and I hadn't seen him. Reflex was to jump and duck and I punched him by accident

Visit a butterfly farm

Crawl through a narrow tunnel

Eat meat, fish, eggs or dairy. Vegan for life!

Being chased. I cannot bear the thought of being chased, so I would turn around and face it.

Couldn't Pothole or cave dive. Couldn't jump on a boat or cliff into water.

And at the moment I have recurring dreams, that wake me up, might be nightmares about riding my bike with cleats on and not getting my feet out in time. But I'm working in this one.

Anything that involved fish.

Watch a horror movie, especially a really gruesome, scary one where the female is in the Forest late at night and meets a gruesome end

Ride a roller coaster, especially a haunted house , evil scary Things jumping out of you type of roller coaster

I wouldn’t want to go into one of those diving bells to the bottom of the ocean
Neither would I like to be blasted into orbit
I will drive in snow , rain, Ice and fog but not up or down a mountain. Luckily there’s barely a hill near us
Even though I can afford it I would not have plastic surgery Eventhough I could do with it
I wouldn’t walk through a graveyard at night
I wouldn’t bungee jump, sky dive or walk along a plank on a high building as in I’m a celebrity
I wouldn’t put my hand into those boxes of critters
I wouldn’t eat any of the Bush trucker trials.

I am gillian McKeith 😂

Same here lol

I can just about look at the engine of the plane we are about to board, but it has to be a sideways glance for a split second..a full on gaze would send my anxiety through the roof