What scares you, be honest here, in anything, not just trucking

[tommyh]

Oooo deep.



Deep that is.

it can go deep.....
about 10 years ago my sponsor had me do a in depth fear inventory,in other words,I look honestly at all my fears.I didn`t know I had so many,over 150...terror is extreme fear and when I was young I lived in a terror I didn`t know I had..I just felt crappy to say the least.My earliest fear was 5 years old!
I did notice all my fears started when I was a kid and grew worst as I got older.The worst they got the more crazy I got......

so in my case those outside senerios like fear of heights,snakes,spiders are just sythoms of a deeper thing,the thing being fear.The defination my sponsor used for fear was a feeling of uneasyness,of insecurity,etc,over a potiental future happening mostly.
some of my peeps say fear is divided into 3 areas
scared of losing something you have
scared of not getting what you want
or fear of what others think of you
I have learned fear puts insane ideas into my head like all negative ideas....I have learned to recoginize them as what they are,they ain`t real and disregard them

 

[dave350]

be ever alert of your surroundings this country full of nut cases.

Always.
Watch what people around you are doing.

Unless I need to poo.

Except for this. Don't watch this.

You could have kept that last tidbit to yerself...

don't discourage him, he's really pushing hard to open up.

That is exactly what my Uncle taught me when we drove team. He said walk like you have a purpose! Be aware but don't look around like you are new here.

And that's...…… Right On.

 

[Electric Chicken]

I have crazy dreams often that scares me and pisses me off too.

Ever dream that there's a lion (or other weird creature) lose in a crowd of people but it
just only targets you and starts stalking you and ignoring
everyone else.

I get that alot. Then I wake up pissed trying to figure what
the hell that dream meant.

I am the lion. Well, weird creature.

 

[ironpony]

I am the lion platypus. Well, weird creature.

Fixed...

 

[wargames]

^^ I was driving behind this guy yesterday -- an idiot who clearly doesn't know how to secure his load or have the common sense to shut the door. I kept a good distance back because I was afraid the pallet jack was gonna come rolling out.

looks like a Penske truck

 

[quillcom]

I am the lion. Well, weird creature.

'cause you just knew I was going to reiterate the obvious if you didn't

 

[Electric Chicken]

'cause you just knew I was going to reiterate the obvious if you didn't

Mmhmm

 

[Sinister]

This ain't no bullshit drivah!

So my roommate in the barracks in Korea comes back from town four sheets to the wind one night. We only had exhaust fans to cool the rooms in warm weather, so being totally plastered, decides to turn the fan off.

Now Korea has all kinds of nasty critters running around, and the hurricane flow from the fan kept whatever was out from crawlin' in.

I wake up in the morning, roll over, and I'm looking at a spider web running from the foot of my bunk to the head about a foot and a half above me. Right in the middle there's this spider about three inches in diameter...



...didn't have no little girls around ta smush it for me!

That spider was doing you a favor by catching any bugs that might try to get to you.

You probably didn’t appreciate the effort.

Truthfully I wouldn’t have either.

 

[mndriver]

I will preface this with, I have a history of better than average night vision. I'd do things at night in the army going through the woods and the guys with me would be constantly running into trees. Noise discipline was not their strong point.


Had a guy watching me move around with night vision goggles and he said it was a trip watching me. He said he was sure I was going to walk into a tree or something and then I'd suddenly Dodge it and the guy behind me would take the tree to their face.


Having said that, there are nights, nothing that goes bump in the night freaks me out.


Other nights, my emotions just take over and I can't function without a dozen flood lights on.