Your Turn
When I was watching Groundhog Day this week and watched Bill Murray try to kill himself in a variety of different ways, I was reminded of some scary moments of my own. There was the time I stumbled into a macrobiotic restaurant. When I realized what it was, my eyes glazed, my heart started beating faster and I kept hearing Gwyneth's voice in my head saying, "I hate chocolate." I never thought I would find the front door in time to escape.
Now, what I want from you today is the scariest thing you have ever done or the scariest thing you want to do. I will take either. If you have done something scary though, I want details. I don't want to just read, "I went sky diving." I want to know if you had to be pushed out of the plane or if you jumped on your own. Tell me scary.
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Here is my story and I am sticking to it...
during one of my key west vacas with the girls, I wanted to go parasailing, because being an east coast city girl, had never been given the chance to try it. So while standing at the dock waiting for our turn to board the ship, I catch eyes with the hunkiest man I had ever seen. Yadda yadda yadda, he winds up on the parasail with me. So as we are flying high above the gulf of mexico, my stomach churning, we start talking about where we were from and so on .. he tells me he is there for his roommates wedding .. cool I think .. so my next question is what college did you go to .. wrong question .. seems my fella was a parole from San Quentin prison, who was down in the keys against his parole and should he get caugh, well .. anyway it dawned on me then why why he was so ripped and so horney .. not really scary like Friday the 13th, but scary for someone who had never met a real live criminal before .. it was also very sexy ..
split this in two
voluntary scary - when i was a camp counselor, i used to fling myself backwards off the camp's zipline. it was amazing.
involuntary scary - went to get a breast lump biopsied and it was actually a lumpectomy. i didn't know i was having outpatient surgery until i was being strapped to the table. the doc got an earful about that later. oh, it was the size of a peach pit but benign. :)
First off let me say I am adventurous. I mountain bike and backpack during the summer. I have been badly injured from being thrown off my mountain bike while tearing down the mountain. Lucky for me I am in good shape and I recovered with no lingering problems other than a few scars. However, rapelling down the face of a mountain was the scariest thing I have ever done. I was petrified. You kind of have to jump back a little and when you are looking 300 feet down, it is scarry. It took me several minutes of my instructor encouraging before I could get out over that rock to rapell down it. Once I got the hang of it, it was kind of fun.
Merrick - finish the story! What happened after parasailing? Hmm????
When I was younger, I rode horses, and jumped them. You know that saying, when you fall off a horse, you have to get right back on? Well, during a horse show, when I was around 12, I went for a jump, and the horse stopped, and I didn't. I crashed into the jump and scattered all the poles and stuff. The officials were yelling at me not to move, to stay on the ground until they got there. But this was in public, and my pride forced me to get back on the damn horse. And do the damn jump again. Thank god that horse jumped that fence.
I was 8 I think, me, my mom, my brother, his friend and her annoying fat brother were on our way to the movies, it was night and my mom doesnt have the best vision in the world. We had to go on the freeway to get there and this highway went around hills so there were drop-offs up the arse everywhere, so we were all talking about the movie we were going to see and my mom almost drove straight off a curve in the road down a fucking hill! I nearly shit myself silly and cried. Then end.
first, i got on the expressway too fast during a rainstorm, the car hydroplaned, i turned completely around so i was facing oncoming traffic. this was during rush hour on a friday. luckily, there was a gap that was just large enough for me to maneuver my way to the emergency lane but my heart didn't stop pounding for a week.
second, someone i know who has access to military things for special covert missions brought me up in a helicopter and the pilot took us to downtown chgo where we were hovering low enough to be looking into highrise apts. scared the shit out of me. it was just too freaky.
and when i was single i had some nut push his way into my apartment building and tell me he was going to kill me but i changed his mind once i kicked him in the groin. scary nonetheless.
You know, I've read that comment regarding Gwyneth before...however, I saw her in that docu when she was traveling through Spain; I saw her eating churros, and she said that when she was a student there, she wanted churros every day for breakfast. Churros come WITH a cup of THICK CHOCOLATE! I call BS on her.
just moved into an apartment and i ran water for a bath. i got distracted with a phone call and the bathtub overflowed. i ran toward the bathroom when i saw water puddling outside the door and, ZAP! i was thrown backwards on my butt. i later saw that the lit floor lamp had a cord with exposed wires in the puddle of water. scared the shit out of me. and still does.
lisa, i've had churro's and none of them came with chocolate, so it's possible she just had the plain old cinnamon-sugar variety.
The scariest thing to me, that I want to do, is be a mother. Sappy answer but it's true. I'd rather jump off aeroplanes for charity continuously than mess that one up and I'm not much a fan of heights.
Scariest thing I've already done is stand up to my abusive stepfather and my mother. But I'll leave that there as this isn't my therapist's office ;)
umm, ok a few things pop into my head:
1) I'm actually blind in my left eye (from being 4months premature) and i have a degenerative condition in my right which means i'm going blind in that eye too. A few years ago for 3months i was totally blind as i had to wait for surgery to my right eye due to recurring cataracts (even though i couldn't see AT ALL, my specialist needed it to be worse than it was) so that was pretty fucking scary, having to depend on people for help, having to sleep downstairs so i wouldn't fall down them, and just generally feeling majorly sorry for myslef and scared shitless. Needless to say when my operation had been performed and the bandage was off and i could see again I promptly fainted from shock and relief.
2)Moving continents at the age of 21 to be with someone who i had only known for 6months was pretty frightening... the unknown and the knowledge that everyone i knew and loved were 11,000 miles away. 5yrs later we're married with 2boys and still in Oz so it worked out. But those early weeks were a nightmare time for me.
last one: i know this is cliche but giving birth scared the hell out of me. So much so that i begged my OB for a c-section as i just couldn't go through with it, i was paralyzed with fear at the thought. My ob flat out refused to give me one (as she should) but i sailed through it with the help of an epidural. Now that made me complacent so the second time round when i was told at the hospital i was too late for an epidural i started to panic. i was screaming like a banshee on speed and was in absolute agony. For six hours, i was petrified and in so much pain. Didn't help that everytime i screamed my way through a contraction my hubby laughed as he said i was doing my 'come face'... lol... NOT what you want to here when you're in labour! Sorry for oversharing a bit but it was pretty amusing (afterward!)
I was pretty scared after some drunk guy punched me in the face in Georgetown, D.C.
He and his friend were trying to take pictures up my friend's skirt on Halloween (she was Peter Pan and her Fiance was Tinkerbell- hilarious)He got mad and started fighting with one of the dudes and when I went over to the other 2nd due he just punched me in the face!! I couldn't believe it- I'm a 5/4", 130-lb. girl...So I punched him back in the face so hard he flew into the street and almost go hit by a cab. Yay for justice!