Stuff that Scared me Shitless in Life

[Milord]

I might flesh these out later but first I'll start with a list.

Starting a Forest Fire as a kid playing with matches

Getting my Mother's car (Buick Skylark 350) stuck in the snow (away from home) when I was 13

1st motorbike ride @ 14 and going thru a cedar hedge

1st parachute jump

1st solo airplane landing

Sliding down a steep icy mountain road with no brakes (friends car)

GF telling me she was pregnant when we were 15



... let me think



When were you Scared Shitless?

[frank lee bent]

running out of air under an ultra large crude carrier in murky water.
panic saved me. your legs kick real hard as you are dying.
when i got back out, i closed the valve on the bottle- took the reg of it and cracked the valve to see if anything was left.
I Swear to God, i had pulled a partial vacuum on it.

[Digg3r]

I'd love to do a parachute jump but doubt I ever will. Too Damn scary!

[Milord]

running out of air under an ultra large crude carrier in murky water.
panic saved me. your legs kick real hard as you are dying.
when i got back out, i closed the valve on the bottle- took the reg of it and cracked the valve to see if anything was left.
I Swear to God, i had pulled a partial vacuum on it.

hehe, you're not supposed to go under 500 psi.

At the cottage my homemade "tank" was a 5 gallon bucket of air tied to a bucket of rocks with a snorkel.
To stay down I tied weights to my waist. I walked out to 20 feet deep, with the snorkel in the air bucket, when the snorkel got filled with water this time. This had worked many times.
Trying quickly get the snorkel back in the air bucket I tipped the air out. Then I tried to remove the weights
from my waist, the slip knot wouldn't budge. So, there I am standing on the lake floor looking up at the surface thinking,
this was a dumb idea, oh fuck.
I took a big jump off the bottom, with weights still attached, then, "your legs kick real hard as you are dying", grabbed a breath of air at the surface before sinking back to to bottom, this time as I'm floating down to bottom, managed to untie the weights and get back to the top.
Got scuba certified after that BS.

[Milord]

I'd love to do a parachute jump but doubt I ever will. Too Damn scary!

I recommend you try it ONCE.

AFTER SCREAMING like a little girl forever it seemed, finally the chute opened and it was very pleasant.

Nah, ... take a ballon ride, nearly as dangerous I hear.

[flying chicken]

Good lists.

i burned my house down playing with a match , half of it saved when the neighbor came to the rescue.

Jumping out of the 2 story window sleeping with my ex when her dad came barging with an axe.

Scariest moment? A gun pointed to my temple and ready to trigger.

[Milord]

Good lists.

i burned my house down playing with a match , half of it saved when the neighbor came to the rescue.

Jumping out of the 2 story window sleeping with my ex when her dad came barging with an axe.

Scariest moment? A gun pointed to my temple and ready to trigger.

I prefer to be the one with the ONLY gun if I had a choice, which I didn't, in Afganistan, surrounded by very pissed off soldiers.

Ooh, ... that was another scared shitless moment.

[StroppyChops]

Fire seems to be a theme around here!

My brother and I burned out a church yard, the federation-era church got scorched but cleaned up okay. We were under 10 and playing with matches, too young to have up to it. I'm not sure my brother didn't light a fire in the sawdust pits later that year, or if the tunnels we local kids dug provided air for spontaneous combustion. Those fires burned for six months or more.

Later I set the countryside on fire around the town water reservoir - this is the greatest sin a farm boy can commit in a farming town. I was pretty scared of the fire chief and the local sargeant after that, but they were pretty cool about it.

Scariest moment - violent childhood, too many to mention.

[ExPenhMan]

No wonder the warning in the term "playing with matches" became common currency on the street and in public service announcements.

[Cowshed Cowboy]

Being in a toilet in a remote part of Kazakhstan and punched by a drunken young gangster for no reason other than presumably being one of 2 foreigners in town. No way out. He could quite easily have knifed me and that would have been it. If it ends in Stan don't visit.