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?

Anything to do with heights, get terrible vertigo. Anything with spiders. Anything with horror, i’m a wimp!

Sad. lift a worm, could do that , could even pick up a slug, give Birth? 😨😨

@IdblowJonSnow i am the Queen of Flatpack - I've got you ;)

Eat meat

Run.

@midsomermurderess I often dream that I'm being chased or there's some emergency but I cannot physically run. I can't run as I have osteoarthritis in my foot & ankle - weird how it crops up in my dreams.

Right. We have a few things covered here.
My dd built her own ikea table and chairs aged 4. No help. I had planned to do it after dinner, but she had better ideas.
Snakes and lizards are fine. Hold them close to your body and they will cuddle up to you and keep warm.
Ds will happily touch, clean and cook the raw meat. Remove the spiders if dd doesn't get to them first.
But along with another poster (sorry, rubbish with names) no way could I ever eat that slimy orange mess of baked beans 🤢

Share a toothbrush!

Pronounce my 'r's properly. I physically cannot do it. Spent years trying. Have given up now. I don't quite 'w' them, but it's a close-run thing.

Christmas A friend's little brother couldn't either!! We'd try to 'help' him and he could say 'rrrrrrrrrr' over and over. But when we said "Good!! Now say rrrrrrrrabbit!" He'd say "RrrrrrrrrWabbit". We gave up.

Pot holing/similar. My most horrible dreams are of dark caves and small spaces.

Some people are able to apologise to another person just to keep the peace even if they are not the one in the wrong. Me? Nope? I’d sooner sever all ties and burn all relationships to the ground than apologise to another person if I’m not in the wrong, just to keep the peace.

Rats. I honestly thought I was ok but then I found a dead one and had to climb six feet to get around it. I felt faint.

I have NO idea why this happens. No trauma that I know of and I am particularly down to earth and fairly brave in other areas of my life. Weird.

I feel the same regarding rates. Spiders snakes etc no problem but rats trigger something in me.

Do a headstand. I’ve tried so many times but the blood goes to my head too fast

Do anything fancy with hair - like a French braid or any kind of elegant up-do!

Also as I’ve shamefully proven to myself today get 10/10 on a 11-plus maths paper. My best score was 6!

Look at a picture of Dominic Cummings for more than a split second.

Some people are able to apologise to another person just to keep the peace even if they are not the one in the wrong. Me? Nope? I’d sooner sever all ties and burn all relationships to the ground than apologise to another person if I’m not in the wrong, just to keep the peace.

My kind of people. 🙌🏼

Do anything fancy with hair - like a French braid or any kind of elegant up-do!

I am wholly incapable of using heated curling irons / tong of straightener to put a curl in my hair. I bought a GHD wand - it had the weird 2 finger glove. I used the wrong hand & burnt myself.

This goes alongside - looking into a mirror & making my hands go the right way.

QueenOfOversharing which ones? The stubborn as fuck people or the ones happy to apologise just to ‘keep the peace’?

@TheBreastmilksOnMe stubborn as fuck. And build up a huuuuuuuuuge resentment! 😂

QueenOfOversharing

Me too! I Cannot abide apologising to anyone if I’m not in the wrong and cannot understand why people would do it. Huge resentment!

@OrganicSmorganic only thing is, I do apologise to ppl when I bump into them. Like some fucking weirdo!

I mean when they bump into me

A forward roll. Never could do it at school, I tried once, and crashed onto my back, thereafter I was terrified of doing it. The PE teacher was not sympathetic.