Daft things to be frightened of

This thread made me laugh The horse stories made me laugh the most as I have horses and I could SO relate to the stories told. I'm terrified of spiders. I know it's madness but I have been known to run screaming like a banshee down the stable block having had a close encounter to one of the scary beasts while mucking out I was in the garden and greenhouse today getting it all sorted after winter and went into the shower afterwards. I was rinsing my hair (which is rather long and thick) and I felt a "tug" in my hair. When I looked down there was a massive spider wiggling at my feet. I jumped out screaming (there was only me at home) and the beast remains in the shower until hubby gets home about 10ish from work. I ended up finishing rinsing my hair in the kitchen sink! I did manage to persuade my daughter to venture up and turn the shower off when she came in 1/2 an hour later

 

@ Trunky & Shiney,

I'm in fits with tears of laughter

 

He only wanted to say hello Shiney.....simples.....:D sorry couldn't resist

 

Spiders freak me out to. Its embarrassing. I'm quite a big chap and there's not much that I fear. Spiders can strike absolute terror into the core of my soul

Its crazy. I've been known to get into an enclosed space with a beast weighing half a tonne. Play fight with a dog capable of ripping my limbs off on whim, yet a tiny spider with a leg span less than the palm of my hand can turn me into a big girl

 

The first time I read Alice in Wonderland it really freaked me out, I used to walk along staring at the ground in case I fell down a hole!!! Took me a LONG time before I stopped doing this!!

Val

 

Willow did fall down a hole when she was little, we were walking across a field when she just dissapeared down a rabbit hole. I was in a right panic as when I pulled her out she was screaming uncontrolably, i thought she'd broken something. We were miles from anywhere.

Then I noticed the nettle stings on her wrists, turned out that was all the damage.

 

Holy mackerel Zig, as much as it must have scared your daughter, I can imagine how that would scare the living poo out of you as her dad. I once went to investigate why my son was crying in the middle of the night. When I got to his room he wasn't in his bed. He'd fallen out but in that brief moment of seeing his empty bed when he should have been in it, I think I nearly had a heart attack.

 

I know what you mean there Dave, there was another time when i'd taken all the kids off camping & got woken by sobbing, Willow had crawled out of her bed & got stuck in the corner of the tent & was freezing cold. Had to put her inbetween me and Poppy to warm her up.

This all pails into insignificent now when they turn up stoned/lashed up/tatooed etc.

 

I clicked the like button for this bit

When that happens, do you still worry though? I ask this because of course when I was a bit younger I would just vanish from home for a few days on end, and maybe indulge in some herbal experiences, figuring my dad wouldn't be worried because he knew I could look after myself (which I could) but he once confessed that he still worried all the time. Now I'm a dad and I think I can understand that, but of course my lad isn't at that age yet so I have no idea.

 

O yes, you still worry. I try to keep up with them on facebok. And you still worrry all the time. They get bigger & grow up.

 

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