what are you afraid of?

On top of freak accidents, I am afraid of spiders... and today while I was cutting the grass, there was an old shingle laying next to the fire pit, and it was moving... I thought it was a mole, or some other critter so I stopped to go move it out of the way of the mower... I lift up the shingle and I see creepy legs flailing around in a hole... so I grabbed a stick, moved the dirt out, and this HHUUUUUUUUUUUEG spider...leg span roughly the size of the palm of your hand, black and yellow, came flying out. This thing booked it... I paniced and ran... lol... the spider was big enough to move a shingle off the ground and I guess when i lifted it up it got scared and tried going into its hole and it just got ugly from there... yikes :(

El1te
 
owls sorta. they bother me. their hooting and their existence in general really. anything that can look me in the eyes and be facing the other way at the same time is screwed up. that and one attacked my brother and I when we were young lol

probably didnt help my father used to feed it hamburger meat.
 
Definitely spiders.

On top of freak accidents, I am afraid of spiders... and today while I was cutting the grass, there was an old shingle laying next to the fire pit, and it was moving... I thought it was a mole, or some other critter so I stopped to go move it out of the way of the mower... I lift up the shingle and I see creepy legs flailing around in a hole... so I grabbed a stick, moved the dirt out, and this HHUUUUUUUUUUUEG spider...leg span roughly the size of the palm of your hand, black and yellow, came flying out. This thing booked it... I paniced and ran... lol... the spider was big enough to move a shingle off the ground and I guess when i lifted it up it got scared and tried going into its hole and it just got ugly from there... yikes :(

El1te

Man, I'd have had to change my underwear if this had been me. I was working on a car one time and a big "FUZZY" brown one crawled into the garage. I had a can of starting fluid near by so I grabbed it and pulled out my lighter and made a flame thrower. Only problem was the FUZZ wasn't FUZZ. It was hundreds of tiny, baby spiders clung on to the big one and they scattered everywhere when the initial burst hit. I freaked and, of course, my Dad started laughing at me so hard I think he peed a little. But at least I got to use the flame thrower again.:D(y)
 
t_bone that is SCARY! Bunches of little ones?! Oh man :(

El1te
no joke I picked my feet up off the ground while reading yours and his posts and didn't even notice till I was done. I HATE spiders to the point where toy spiders creep me out really bad. I got pissed at my wife once at the grocery store when she picked up a toy spider and chased me with it. Not cool.
 
:( No good man :( I can do scorpions no problem... don't get it... Spiders are just AWFUL... except daddy long leggers, they are jolly fellows hahaha

El1te
 
Yeah. It's gotta be spiders. We have some monsters out here. Big and black, they're the size of your hand and they string their webs between street lights.....They don't mess about. Then there are the black and yellow striped ones (big) that have a habit of making their webs at face hieght. You can guess what tends to happen (shudder)
 
What Was I Scared Of?

Well I was walking in the night, and I saw nothing scary.
For I have never been afraid of anything...not very.

Then I was deep within the woods, when suddenly I spied them.
I saw a pair of pale green pants with nobody inside them.

I wasn't scared, but yet I stopped. What could those pants be there for?
What could a pair of pants at night be standing in the air for?

And then they moved those empty pants. They kind of started jumping.
And then my heart, I must admit, It kind of started thumping.

So I got out. I got out fast. As fast as I could go, sir.
I wasn't scared but pants like that, I did not care for no sir.

After that a week went by, then one dark night in Greenwich,
I had to do an errand. I had to fetch some Greenwich Spinach.

Well, I had fetched the spinach and was starting back through town,
When those pants raced 'round the corner, and they almost knocked me down!

I dropped my Greenwich Spinach, but I didn't even care!
I ran for home, believe me, I had really had a scare!

Now bicycles where never meant for pale green pants to ride them.
Especially SPOOKY pale green pants with nobody inside them!

The next night I was fishing for doubt trout on Roover River,
When those pants came rowing towards me, well I started into shiver.

And by now I was so frightened that I'll tell you, but I hate to...
I SCREAMED AND ROWED A WAY AND LOST MY HOOK AND LINE AND BAIT TOO!

I ran and found a brickel bush and hid myself away.
I got brickels in my britches, but I stayed there anyway.

I stayed all night, the next night too. I'd be there still now doubt,
But I had to do an errand, so the next night I went out.

I had to do an errand, had to pick a peck of snide,
In a dark and gloomy snide field that was almost nine miles wide.

I said,"I do not fear those pants with nobody inside them."
I said and said and said those words. I said them, but I lied them.

Then I reached into a snide bush, and the next thing that I knew,
I felt my hand touch someone, and I'll bet that you know who.

And there I was caught in the snide and in that dreadful place,
Those spooky empty pants and I were standing face to face!

I YELLED FOR HELP! I SCREAMED! I SHRIEKED! I HOWLED! I YOWLED! I CRIED!
"OH SAVE ME FROM THESE PALE GREEN PANTS WITH NOBODY INSIDE!"

But then a strange thing happened. Those pants began to cry.
Those pants began to tremble. They were just as scared as I.

I never heard such whimpering, and I began to see,
That I was just as strange to them; as they were strange to me.

I put my arm around their waist and sat right down beside them.
I calmed them down poor empty pants with nobody inside them.

And now we meet quite often, those empty pants and I.
We never shake or tremble. We both just smile and we say, "HI."
 
As long as I don't see a red spot on a spider's Abdomen, I don't get that scared.

And I'm surprised nobody has listed Sharks. I live in a coastal community, and I rarely ever go to the beach. And for the times I do, you never catch me in the water. I don't care how safe you say it is, or how long it's been since a shark was last seen in the area, I will not go in the water. I might make a possible exception if the water is absolutely clear, yet that's about it.
 
By the way, my daughter's pet Quentin would like to say "HI" to everyone.:D

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I'm afraid of the deep open seas. You'd never get me on a cruise boat or something that goes way out in the ocean. Or a submarine, oh god, forgot about the subs.
 
What Was I Scared Of?

Well I was walking in the night, and I saw nothing scary.
For I have never been afraid of anything...not very.

Then I was deep within the woods, when suddenly I spied them.
I saw a pair of pale green pants with nobody inside them.

I wasn't scared, but yet I stopped. What could those pants be there for?
What could a pair of pants at night be standing in the air for?

And then they moved those empty pants. They kind of started jumping.
And then my heart, I must admit, It kind of started thumping.

So I got out. I got out fast. As fast as I could go, sir.
I wasn't scared but pants like that, I did not care for no sir.

After that a week went by, then one dark night in Greenwich,
I had to do an errand. I had to fetch some Greenwich Spinach.

Well, I had fetched the spinach and was starting back through town,
When those pants raced 'round the corner, and they almost knocked me down!

I dropped my Greenwich Spinach, but I didn't even care!
I ran for home, believe me, I had really had a scare!

Now bicycles where never meant for pale green pants to ride them.
Especially SPOOKY pale green pants with nobody inside them!

The next night I was fishing for doubt trout on Roover River,
When those pants came rowing towards me, well I started into shiver.

And by now I was so frightened that I'll tell you, but I hate to...
I SCREAMED AND ROWED A WAY AND LOST MY HOOK AND LINE AND BAIT TOO!

I ran and found a brickel bush and hid myself away.
I got brickels in my britches, but I stayed there anyway.

I stayed all night, the next night too. I'd be there still now doubt,
But I had to do an errand, so the next night I went out.

I had to do an errand, had to pick a peck of snide,
In a dark and gloomy snide field that was almost nine miles wide.

I said,"I do not fear those pants with nobody inside them."
I said and said and said those words. I said them, but I lied them.

Then I reached into a snide bush, and the next thing that I knew,
I felt my hand touch someone, and I'll bet that you know who.

And there I was caught in the snide and in that dreadful place,
Those spooky empty pants and I were standing face to face!

I YELLED FOR HELP! I SCREAMED! I SHRIEKED! I HOWLED! I YOWLED! I CRIED!
"OH SAVE ME FROM THESE PALE GREEN PANTS WITH NOBODY INSIDE!"

But then a strange thing happened. Those pants began to cry.
Those pants began to tremble. They were just as scared as I.

I never heard such whimpering, and I began to see,
That I was just as strange to them; as they were strange to me.

I put my arm around their waist and sat right down beside them.
I calmed them down poor empty pants with nobody inside them.

And now we meet quite often, those empty pants and I.
We never shake or tremble. We both just smile and we say, "HI."


***! That was one of my favorite books as a kid. I remember the first time my mom read it to me. It scared me silly.
 
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