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?

@dottiedodah there's no way in hell I could watch that. I once watched a program about some free diver or whatever you call it - they hold onto a rope & go as far down as they can just holding their breath. I thought I'd try holding my breath as they did it. Don't think I got past 7 seconds.

Sewing! I’m shit at it.

Oh and drawing. Hopeless

queenofoversharing

Noo when horses eg see a mailbox or a plastic bag they think 'ooh is that a dinosaur better run' or

an unexpected wind or the field with cows you often pass 'iiih must be a ghost... better jump' .

Btw mine is everything to do with heights.

@QueenOfOversharing

Yep, that's my lunch gone.

I think I'd also struggle to enjoy a break at Centre Parcs. I've heard what goes on there

Rock climbing. It’s for sickos.

Same as everyone else...!!
Caving/pot holing.
Going up anywhere high especially a thin high thing like a pole or something. There is a famous picture of some workmen eating their lunch sat on a steel girder high up, think it's New York, even looking at that picture makes me feel like crying.
Also eating disgusting things if someone held a gun to my head and said eat that witchitty grub or else..well I'd be dead then.

Run ..my ankle is fused and I cannot run.I would just have to hobble away and hope for the best.Worries me sometimes.

Bungee jump or skydive. There's just no way. Utter madness.

QueenOfOversharing
Do you know you can train yourself to hold your breath for a long time? You gradually increase your lung capacity by practicing every day. My record is 4 minutes 17 second. But the world record is some insane 22 minutes.

Llot5 I know this isn’t in the spirit of the thread, but I am a real evangelist for discovering drawing later in life. If you try harder you will actually make better drawings, I’m sure of it.

There are things I couldn't physically do because of my physical limitations but if it genuinely was life or death I suspect that there is nothing I wouldn't do, bar those things that are physically beyond me.

The desire to live is pretty damned strong and I think people generally have no idea what they would be willing to do in reality if they were in a situation where the alternative was death.

Go to a Beyoncé concert

Eat balut (basically a chicken fetus in its egg), or other "delicacies" of this kind

Go backpacking, stay in hostels or partake in any other extreme low budget holidaying habits

Hitch hike

Ask for favours

Listen to someone eating a packet of crisps loudly and not want to punch them in the face. Repeatedly.

Bungee jumping or skydiving!

Also opening my eyes underwater, even with goggles on.

Swim with sharks. Cage diving. Anything in the sea. Sharks. Jaws. No.

I was made to go caving once. The leader tried to tell me it would be fun, I could learn about rock formations (yes I'm a nerd). And likened it to a roller-coaster ride she'd been on, really scary beforehand but actually really fun once she was on, and over in no time. The difference being that the cave trip took 3 hours, I got claustrophobic just crawling through a cardboard box, and it was not even remotely fun.

My boyfriend and I hired a boat on holiday and the sea was so gorgeous I jumped out of it for a swim... Turns out boats feel a lot closer to the water when you're in them compared to when you're out. I couldn't pull myself up again so my life did sort of depend on it (appalling upper body strength!).

So I guess that's my answer. It was very embarrassing and a bit scary. I had to swim to rocks about 200 metres away and he had to very carefully manoeuvre the boat next to me!

Another vote for caving here. Anyone else read the Weirdstone of Brisingamen as a kid? That bit where they have to wriggle through the tiny tunnel and then they come to a flooded bit, and they have no way of knowing how far the flood goes and no way to turn back? Argh, it’s the stuff of nightmares!

Spudlet yes! That scenario is literally my worst nightmare

Yes to the anything requiring upper body strength.

On a less lighthearted note, I was watching a documentary the other day about some people who survived the terrorist attack on the Bataclan and one woman was crying talking about how everyone climbed into a hole in the ceiling to escape but she couldn't do it. Other people did push and pull her up in the end but she thought she was going to die because she had no strength in her arms and I really felt for her. That would be me in that situation.

On the other hand, I can eat almost anything, I reckon. I've eaten a witchetty grub voluntarily. In a starvation situation I'd have no qualms. I'd see off one of my own cats if I was just a bit peckish to be honest.

ask for a pay rise.

I think I could do all of the other things on here if I absolutely had too...but ask for a pay rise...NEVER

Whistling, particularly a shrill whistle for help or imitating a wild creature.

My arms feel tired whenever someone clings from a ledge in a film

Another pull up failure here. I've been going to the gym for years. Good muscles etc but genetically something just says nope when I try. Interestingly my super lean son can't either and just about all his mates can too. It's genetic I swear?

Also bungee jumping. For the love of God why?

Aah @hebemumsnet if I report you, do you have to delete yourself?