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  A one lane each way bouncy bridge with zero margin for error and no divider. You could see the whites of the oncoming truckers eyes. I'd get my game face on when driving over it. It has been replaced with a four lane bridge with room and barriers between traffic.  Bye! 
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As I said earlier in the thread, I don't have any phobias that I am know about.
Spiders are just a little bug, and yea, I know they are not insects. Back in the 1980s I was in the astronomy club and very active. One of the members had a really nice dark site in his back yard next to a large lake that had no marinas or businesses at all in his area. We all went to his house to see Haley's comet with his 21 inch telescope. He let us use his bathroom in the workshop, but to get there, was a walk through a patch of trees. He mentioned to everyone, stay on the path around the trees, and don't go between the trees because they are full of spiders. At about 4:00 AM I forgot that bit of advice, and walked right into a tons of spider webs and it was all over my face in virtual 100% darkness. My imagination had hundreds of spiders all over me like in horror movies. I did hustle out of the area, and wiped the spider webs off my face and jacket, and back of my neck. I did a bit of a yuck dance, and finished my trip to the the bathroom without turning on more than his very dim red light to see the toilet. Spiders hold no special fear to me. I was very sure to walk down the path on the way back to the telescope. Haley's comet was a major disappointment, just a fuzzy blob and nothing like the the drawings of the giant streak across of the sky like the text books had when I was in school.
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My parents told me about a bridge like that somewhere near Dover Delaware. I was just an infant so I don;t remember it, but mom said there were so many people afraid to drive their own cars over it, that professional drivers sat in a room on each side. All day long they drove other people's vehicles over the bridge and the owners just held on for dear life and trusted a professional driver to get over it safely.
Evidently my mom used the pro drivers when she had to use the bridge when my dad was not with her. That would be a weird business card profession. I guess professional bridge driver is not something I have ever seen.
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All this bridge talk reminded me of an incident I had in the 80's, albeit in a tunnel.
I was living in England and had flown back to the US for extended work at / near Norfolk Naval Base. I believe my plane got in around 4 or 5pm US East Coast time, and I went to dinner with some work mates. So my body clock thought it was after midnight. On the way back to my hotel I was in one of the underwater tunnels between Norfolk and Hampton Roads (I believe). Next thing I know I wake up in a panic with a very deep gasp. I had only been asleep for a couple of seconds but it scared the poopoo out of me. Never really liked those tunnels afterwards. Not a huge deal but always happy when I see the light at the opening exit.
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 I would always say a prayer to the automotive gods that my pieced together rustheap p-car would make it through without breaking. It always made it, but I still get on edge in those tunnels. Last edited by LEAKYSEALS951; 03-23-2023 at 10:02 AM.. |
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I guess I don't have a fear of heights. I've climbed a 400-foot rock face, but I was roped in with protection and a belayer, and was fine. If I didn't have the rope, like in Free Solo, I would have been freaking out, even though it was an easy climb. (5.6 for those in the know.)
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I have a real fear of clicking on some PPOT threads .... there might be pics I can't unsee
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Funny thing is, I'm not afraid of heights. I do high angle rescue. I have no problem climbing a radio tower. I'm in my glory hanging off a tower crane a few hundred ft in the air on a 1/2"rope. Climbing up a ladder onto a roof, I'll do it, but nervous as hell. Lol. Go figure.. .
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It is because you have a brain in your head, and you don't want to leave it scattered on the ground.
Half inch rope ain't much, but it is more than you have on a ladder.
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I have fear of office, bank, hospital, government buildings. The thin carpet, echoing concrete stairwells, blue phosphorescent lights buzzing on and on and on, glass partitions. I get dizzy.
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