Do you have any phobia's..

[Flick of the Elbow]

I wouldn't be too worried, it was over 40 years ago and that's how these guys dealt with situations like that. Any other scenario would have ended with me being bitten and very little chance of getting specialist help any time soon.

If they were close enough to fire a gun at it point blank then surely they were close enough to push it away with the muzzle ?

 

[lazybloke]

Two for me. Blood and ropes.

As a teenager I went to a blood donor session, not to donate but to watch. Was fascinating to see cannulas going in and blood coming out, but eventually I started to feel iffy, culminating in crawling out of the building on all fours feeling very nauseous.
To this day I'm mystified at the experience - how can I be fascinated to watch something, NOT be disgusted, yet still be nauseated? Brain needs a rewire maybe.
These days it's more a white coat syndrome. I don't often have a strong reaction but I have had one full blown vasovagal syncope following a holiday jab. Woke up to find a nurse putting a BP cuff on my arm. Can't remember how low the reading was, but the nurse sprinted out of the room to fetch a GP.
(Which is a lot better than the usual 3 weeks to get an appt).

The ropes phobia is just a variation of heights. I can climb to the top of a climbing wall no problem, but ask me to abseil down and I have the biggest problem letting go : I'm phobic about trusting the safety rope & harness. Every few years I give it a go again, either a climbing wall, a Go Ape, or a zip wire; I'm trying to conquer my fears, but in over 3 decades of trying it's not getting much easier.

 

[Slick]

If they were close enough to fire a gun at it point blank then surely they were close enough to push it away with the muzzle ?

As best as I can remember, any delay would have resulted in a bite.

 

[Jenkins]

My initial response was "nothing". But then I thought about those potholers, squeezing through little gaps in the dark, far underground...*shudder*

This. Bad enough to have to change channels when shown on TV.

 

[MarkF]

Heights combined with the realistic possibility of falling off the edge.

I'm another one, bizarre, seeing as I ran a roofing business for years.

Apart from heights, moths, they give me the creeps. Some don't have mouths they are the scariest things in the world

 

[fossyant]

Lifts. Scared stiff every time I get in them, mostly of getting trapped in a small box. Annoying phobia to have as I often have to use the lifts at work.

We have glass ones. They had to be 'slowed down' as people thought they were falling. My nick name is the 'Tower of Terror'. Dead handy though, as you can tell which door they are arriving at when waiting for one.

 

[fossyant]

Heights with me. Not too keen. Nothing too bad, but not comfortable.

 

[ColinJ]

Lifts. Scared stiff every time I get in them, mostly of getting trapped in a small box. Annoying phobia to have as I often have to use the lifts at work.

Oh, you would love paternoster lifts then!

They are mostly being scrapped now because they are only really convenient and/or safe for able-bodied adults.

 

[IBarrett]

Pregnant women.
They genuinely make me want to throw up.

A couple of friends had sprogs in the last few years and were brilliant with my daft phobia and did all they could to help.

I suspect I was too impressionable when I saw Alien.

 

[swee'pea99]

I don't think I have any phobias as such, but I'm very squeamish, which I suspect is in the same sort of ball park. I have to look away when they do any kind of operation on the telly. My nearest and dearest find it hilarious. "You know they're only pretending, right?" "Yes, thanks. Just tell me when it's finished, ok?"

 

[fossyant]

Oh, you would love paternoster lifts then!

They are mostly being scrapped now because they are only really convenient and/or safe for able-bodied adults.

I'd love to find somewhere that used them - bet there has been none in use for over 20 years.

 

[slowmotion]

I'd love to find somewhere that used them - bet there has been none in use for over 20 years.

Head for Germany.
https://www.theguardian.com/world/2015/aug/14/elevator-germans-loopy-revolving-lifts-paternosters

 

[fossyant]

We've actually found the glass lifts less oppressive, people actually talk to strangers in them, more so than you would in a fully enclosed one, due to it being open.

 

[Shaun]

Not good with heights ... fairground rides are a no-go (panic and try climbing off when they're in motion) ... and I recently discovered claustrophobia when I had a panic attack during an MRI scan. Felt proper daft, but just had to get out of the "torpedo tube". The bigger scanner at another hospital on the other side of town helped a bit, but I still only managed 5 mins before I "lost it" and had to bail. Thankfully it was enough to get the doc the answer he needed. Phew!

 

[fossyant]

Roller coasters. I have done them, but don't like them. I 'had' to do Alton Towers a few years on the run as we were doing 'Disney'. I've done enough of them 'for the kids'. I have a good excuse now with my back not to do one again. I did bail on smiler (before the accident) - we'd been stuck in queue's from mechanicals, and when I got there it was, I'll see you at the finish, and made a sharp exit as the rest of my family got on. It's a 'control thing' with me, even though I've been badly injured on bikes many times.