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?

Face a zombie. Absolutely terrified of them. Keep telling myself they don't exist but I am definitely expecting the world to end with being overrun with zombies.

@Straycatstrut

I guess there are more than a few of us. The real reaction scenario is 'fight, flight, or freeze'. The lack of screaming is considered a form of 'freezing', although I can move and run.

Let's say I have just drunk some poison(for the lols) and the written antidote for it is simple BUT it is written in my OWN HANDWRITING when I'm in a rush.
Not a chance I'm ever gonna deficer that.

Swim in dark water.

Just writing that sentence made my palms sweaty.

Things under water make me feel nauseous.
Imagine your legs dangling into the darkness of the water and maybe sharks or other water dwelling things. Vile vile vile.

Holding my breath and/or keeping my eyes closed
I just can’t do eithef

Run. I do not run. If you see me running, something is terribly and utterly wrong! The end of the world might be imminent!
Heights! the edge of a tall building, balcony, cliffs...can't even look at others being there. Better kill me on solid ground, I'm not going to the edge of anything

I couldn't pothole or go caving if you paid me all the cash on earth. It fills me with horror watching others do it.

DS2 is all about nature and documentaries at the moment and recently watched a show where they dived in Mexico; there are patches of jungle where the floor has collapsed over the years and turned into underground water-filled caves and the people on the show explored them. I'm not a baby and have scuba dived for most of my adult life but my head would fall off even being near to those caves. Vile.

Another thing I couldn't do would be to approach (let alone climb) a wind turbine - I am terrified of them (for same reason as large ships) and a whole host of other abnormally large objects. That new Weetabix ad with the little girl that catches an enormous submarine on her fishing line - scared the crap out of me the first time I saw it!

@madambee see whispers a bit dim! 😂

@TrippingOnSunshine I was just talking to my son about those photos. If I'm not mistaken, the guys were native Americans as they had no fear of heights (why I don't know, and I could be making that up 😂)

@schnubbins I'm putting off getting mine fused & I often have dreams where I can't run

@LikeDuhWhatever no way! I probably should try that - gives me the fear just thinking about it. 22 minutes?! 😱

@ArtemisOfOrtygia come on, what has Beyoncé done to deserve that? I mean, had you said Taylor Swift, then ok. 😂

@golddustwomen Jaws has ruined a lot of lives.

Hi @HebeMumsnet 👋🏼 That poor woman - glad ppl helped though. I'm with you on the eating stuff - but to be fair I'm a greedy cow. Though, I do draw the line at deriving my dogs - side-eying you hard

@HaHaVeryBunny I'm not laughing. I once got stranded on the windowsill, cleaning the outside of the window. I had to call for my son to hold my hand. Shhhhhhh....

@WhatHaveIFound oh no - I can definitely see that French plait thing coming up in the apocalypse. We'll go on without you.

@BitOfFun hahaha! You've reminded me of the time my gym PT was taking a step class and asked me to stop as I was "a danger to myself & others"

@BusterMove the Wills Tower! That's it. I am sweating thinking about it

@Squidgoals they will be reported. Similarly if anyone ever posts a pic of the dogs I saw recently with huge ticks in their ears

@MilkTrayLimeBarrel I had to have a brain MRI - they got me in, had a panic attack. They rescheduled it twice. I couldn't even go in the bloody room. I've had loads on other bits & even my neck, but the head thing they clip you into - omg never! My neurologist isn't happy, but I said sedate next or nope.

@Lazydaisydaydream but 46 seconds is a lifetime. I'm hyperventilating thinking about it.

@emwithme I may have taken the fucking tiles out of one I couldn't do.

@CleopatrasMum I refuse to click that link!!!! 😱

@Thurmanmurman I had to throw one out of my kitchen once. Didn't know they pissed (or expelled some sort of fluid) down your arm though. 🤢

@potter5 and other zombiephobes - I actually think I'd be awesome in the apocalypse (despite my many physical limitations). I do have a shit ton of pent up rage though. Meh.

I do apologise if I have triggered any nightmares. If it helps, I'm sweating so badly the back of my hair is soaking & one dog is licking the inside of my damp elbow 😬

Anal

Put in contact lenses.

Absolutely no upper body strength so would fall in a resigned fashion after about 3 seconds.

I can run in my dreams. I wish I could in real life.

And what @mingeofdeath has just said

Heights, anything to do with high places and my body turns to mush and my head to fog! I especially dislike metal staircases with gaps between them, I know the statistical probability of falling through said gaps is low now I’m a 31 year old medium weight woman, but that fear has been one I had since I was a waif of a child and slipped on a metal staircase, my leg shot out the gap in the back and whilst there was no real damage done I still get vertigo on them.

If my life depended on any of the cave diving, deep swimming, bunjee jumping etc. I’d be fucked. For my DC though I’d probably manage without thinking about it.

l’m currently managing my arachnophobia better than I ever have because I don’t want my twins to think spiders are scary because of my fear of them! Need them to grow up to be good spider confiscaters as DH is also arachnophobic 😂

Most things wouldn't bother me, heights no problem, jumping out of a plane/parascending done, swimming under water fine, animals don't mind them, confined spaces no problem but.............

Don't think I will ever drink milk or watch someone drink milk.

My sister and I once got stuck in a shop because there was a guy with a pet rat on his shoulder at the door. We had to wait til he moved because we were too freaked out to go close to him.

Also I truly hate cheese in all forms to the point of retching, so if I had to eat a cheese sandwich to escape then I’d stay trapped. Yes, I know it’s weird of me.

Find my way without a sat nav. No really, this isn't one of those mildly getting a bit lost things.

In the last three months I have been lost in a car park 4 times , driven at least three hours extra on the grounds I took the wrong direction exit on the m25 but was absolutely convinced I was right , got myself and a colleague lost in a care home (that's right IN a care home , not on the way , not nearby , on the sodding care home).

Was firmly convinced I was in one part of Essex when I realised I was in a completely different town ( in my defence the postcodes were very similar and I still claim semantics .....I was in the right place, I always am, I just had no idea what actual town I was in)

DP once asked me what motorway I was on and I gave him an option of 3 (which he has never let me forget )

I am genuinely a good driver , not hesitant and always get where I need to , I just have little idea of the actual road name or you know county that I am in.

I'm taking notes of who we can rely on in the zombie apocalypse. Surprisingly few of us. We clearly need to recruit some bungee jumping, cave diving, spider and snake handling strong person with an inquisitive palate.

@QueenOfOversharing
I've just googled the horrendous photo and it's called Lunch atop a skyscraper. I would attach it but dont know how. And now I've looked at it I feel like I've got something stuck in my throat!

@Shinyletsbebadguys do not pair up with my beagle. He gets lost in the garden & barks til I "find" him. My staffy is ashamed of him.

@TrippingOnSunshine they've got their lunchboxes haven't they? I prefer to believe it is faked. The whole thing.

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.

I can't look at that photo without feeling quite sick. Even pictures of people standing near cliff edges and stuff makes me feel a bit dizzy and nauseous. I have to shut my eyes if there's anything on tv or at the cinema that involves people up high, doing precarious things.

When I was young, I had a great head for heights, and even went parachute jumping. I was in my 30s the last time I climbed a tree.

I have no idea what's changed to give me a fear of heights, but the first time I ever got vertigo, I was pot-holing. We had to traverse a narrow ledge and you couldn't see how far down it was, because of the darkness. I really felt like I was falling and completely froze.

Give a blow job (well you did say lighthearted)

Prude alert - I was shocked at the SATC episode when the hot postal guy delivers something to Samantha and then Carrie walks in to find her giving him a blow job - understand the reciprocal thing as part of regular sex but to find pleasure in doing that on someone you’d only just met? I just don’t get it..

I could not assist/comfort/be close to/be in the same building as somebody vomiting.

I couldn't jump out of a plane, but if the person next to me was vomiting I'd give it a bloody good try.

There was an awful clip on twitter recently of someone shifting around on a sloping cliff edge trying to get the best selfie pose - I almost had a panic attack watching it!

However, every apocalypse survival team needs a nerd and this is where I feel my strengths are so keep me please. I'll be Velma in other words. Bet she can't do a press-up.