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?

[AmelieTaylor]

@StealthPolarBear

I can barely pull myself out if bed, so I’m suitably impressed you can pull yourself out of a pool! Press ups are vastly over rated!

[HavenDilemma]

Since when was asking what someone finds scary about something, considered as nasty? That's a development I must've missed

[FizzyIce]

@chugmonkey actually happened to me and I fractured my spine !
Still couldn’t do it if I was in the same situation

[redastherose]

I couldn't eat anything live! I think I could eat even horrible things if forced if they were already dead but the horrible bite the head off things on I'm a Celebrity I just couldn't.

Physical things don't bother me though, I have done rock climbing, caving, diving none of those were terrible. I got a buzz from them because my adrenaline was up, the only thing I would say about caving was that it was freezing and the tunnel that was easy to climb down with the water flowing down my back was actually a waterfall in my face climbing back up. Also, I was a teenager and slim so current me would possibly get stuck

[LadyMadderRose]

I can drive on the motorway now, but for a long time after passing my test it scared me shitless. Yes it's all going the same way, but FAST, and there are loads of unwritten rules and expectations about where you should be, and people driving up your arse or harassing you if you hesitate. The thing where you have to join the motorway from the sliproad and you depend on someone letting you in. Terrifying! Even overtaking scared me so much at first I would just sit behind a hay truck the whole way rather than venture out of the slow lane.

[StealthPolarBear]

"when some Bond villain is ordering me to calculate dry pasta amounts correctly to save my life, I'll be shafted,"
:o the villain wil still be waiting for me to get my nose off the carpet.

[FizzyIce]

Cook rice that’s not microwave and boil in the bag

[FizzyIce]

*or

[evilharpy]

Run a mile in less than 8 and a half minutes. Over the years I've trained and trained and never got below this.

Currently quite unfit and a 10 minute mile would be more likely.

Also monkey bars, even as a kid I couldn't do them.

[AmelieTaylor]

@HavenDilemma. Posting [hmmm] at someone because of something they can’t do I consider nasty, yes.

That’s not ‘not understanding’ that’s ridiculing and I’m FAR from the only one to pull you up on it.

I’m not ‘incredibly defensive’ 🙄 Why would I be I drive on motorways all the time. I just gave sufficient empathy to accept they scare others people and enough decency not to mock someone for it.

There’s always someone who has to do it in these threads and spoil them -congratulations.

[CleopatrasMum]

Holding an earthworm - bleurgh. I found one climbing up our front door once and had to go to the pub until my husband came home (that's my excuse anyway...).

Funny about all the caving ones. I used to do that with the Venture Scouts years ago. I quite enjoyed it until my large boobs/wetsuit combo stuck me fast between two slabs of rock (luckily upright but still). I had to sit with one of the instructors at the mouth of the cave for 2 hours while everyone else enjoyed the cave. I never went again.

I think making small talk with a caving instructor for 2 hours might be my not-if-my-life-depended-on-it scenario.

That, and sleeping in one of those tiny tents suspended over the side of a mountain you see sometimes. Like this:

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[Gingaaarghpussy]

Walking on a pier. It's the gaps between the planks, they maybe tiny but I will only go if I can cling onto someone else.
Spiral staircases is another one. I generally glue myself to the wall, shut my eyes and go up the stairs.

[silencebeforethebleeps]

I had to do the diving thing to get my swimming diploma as a child - they'd put a large plastic sheet with holes over the pool and you had to dive in one hole and come out the other. Still gives me nightmares!

[SoundofSilence]

Yet another upper body strength failure here. Perhaps the PP is right and we should collectively try to do something about it. I think I'm going to have a go at the monkey bars next time I take DS2 to the park. He can't do it yet either so he won't put me to shame (yet).

And I can't whistle. I have tried so, so many times. If I have to get someone's attention to save my life, it's going to have to be: "OI!!!"

[BarbedBloom]

Thank you @spudlet I have been trying to remember the title for years!

[BusterMove]

HavenDilemma, meh. Different things unnerve different people. for some, I suppose it's unfamiliarity. What's scary, really, about a lot of things people are wary/afraid of?

[Thurmanmurman]

Touch a slug. Honestly they repulse me so much, I dry heave if I see a big fat one!

[Just4alaff]

Be in a room with birds, I can’t physically bring myself to pass a pigeon on the street let alone be in a room with them.

[minou123]

Ok, I know this I'd unlikely, but mine is: I could not survive a zombie apocalypse.

I just cant be arsed to come up with a plan and then have to do it.
I'd rather just become zombie.

[aspoonfulofyourownmedicine]

Run. If I'm running, someone/thing is chasing me and even then I'd give up and let them win.
Deep water - I don't do water I can't stand up in. Lakes, rivers, pools.. nah!!
Creepy crawlies. I'm getting better with spiders and can bear them to an extent but no to bugs etc
Eat or even make macaroni cheese 🤮🤢
Snakes - absolute no go, even on tv etc

[FairNotFair]

Remember that bit in Raiders of the Lost Ark when he gets lowered into that tomb full of sarcophagi, rotting corpses, and a million snakes? Snakes everywhere, limited air, one teeny tiny torch, and no visible means of escape. Plus a screaming companion in an evening gown.
That.

[JellyfishandShells]

Cave diving.

[virginpinkmartini]

Those nasty sling-shot capsule rides that fire you up into the sky. Fuck that.
Same as bungee jumping. You're just asking for your neck to be broken.

Would consider skydiving if it meant saving my life though.

[Straycatstrut]

I can't scream. Literally, my vocal cords 'seize up' and all I do is utter a strangled croak. So I'd be a goner in a dark alley faced with a monster.

[shocked] same!! I always thought I was the only one. Instead of screaming I do the frozen thing (not Disney, that'd be interesting!) I can't imagine using up all my energy letting out a piercing scream when in danger anyway to be honest!

[CookieSue222]

PolloDePrimavera - yes!!!!
That's exactly my massive unreasonable fear - or, even worse being in a dry dock, under a massive ship at the propeller end - I actually feel physically sick just thinking bout it. Apparently it's called Megalophopia, or fear of oversized objects. Google it - but not the images!
Interestingly I am fine with spiders, motorway driving etc.
I went caving once bout 30 years ago, and it wasn't as bad as anticipated, and I also own a 6 foot snake! Guess I'm just weird......