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oscarthecat

16 years ago

Yup, gotta go with that one. But amazing what you can accomplish if you can overcome your fears. The most difficult thing is to define just exactly what your fear is. Steve in Baltimore County.

Well...I know one of mine Driving through a city like Philly or Manhattan and I just won't do it. My fear is either getting killed,killing someone else or doing enough damage to be sued and then having to live on the streets.

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meldy_nva

16 years ago

With you on that, Steve. All too often fears are generalized and you have to figure out each one before you can start to overcome it.

I continue to fear sets of steps without a hand-railing. My is not of falling and getting bruised, but of falling and re-breaking a leg.

Marda ~ LOL, I hate Interstate intersections. My fear isn't of killing someone else, but of being the one squished by a trailer doing 80mph while negotiating a 45 mph merge curve. So guess who lives near the I-95/I-395/I-495 junction which has about a half-million vehicles a day swirling around bridges and merges?! I know all the routes to get from one side to the other without having to actually drive the interchange

Here is a link that might be useful: 495-95

andie_rathbone

16 years ago

Marda. I hear you on driving in big cities, although I can navigate the surface streets a lot better than trying to navigate an given freeway system, which is a truly white-knuckle experience for me at just about any time.

My absolute worst driving experience was in Paris when I was in my early twenties & probably had no business driving there anyway. I got stuck in one of those grand roundabouts and couldn't get out (Just like in "National Lampoon's European Vacation")! Finally I just stopped the car & sat there with the traffic zooming around me crying. A gendarme had to stop all the traffic so I could get the car out of there & park it on a straight street. He told me to leave it there & call the rental car company to pick it up. I gratefully obeyed & I haven't driven inside a large European city since.

calliope

16 years ago

LOLOL. I also hate freeways. Not just the interchanges but being the filling in a truck sandwich makes any trip on one unpleasant, and I'd rather be in the position of control (driver) than the passenger anyday. My family has a joke about my imaginary brake pedal on the passenger side.

I actually enjoy driving, or used to very much. I could go from coast to coast easily if I would only use state routes where there is actually scenery and little twists and turns and stops and goes. I read an article once stating it was actually more dangerous to travel the backroads than the freeways, and I find that hard to believe, unless they were talking about the percentage of cars traveling it versus accidents. I also presume, like on the road in front or our property, many people who are used to driving in cities or on interstates don't quite "get it" that on a twisty winding counrty road, when they say watch out for deer, Amish buggies or ice on bridges, they really mean it.

I guess fear is hardwired into the brain as a defense mechanism, and it's prolly a good thing. But, it does amaze me how we can have one frightening experience and then broaden it out to all sorts of situations linked to it, but having nothing to do with it. It's likely healthy to challenge those fears now and again, but sometimes it's hard to know what is a healthy fear and what isn't? I guess my criteria is does that fear hamper me from doing something I want to do? My claustrophobia and fear of heights almost stopped me from climbing the minster at york Cathedral. I only had four or five panic attacks on the way up, rofl, but boy was it worth it when I got to the top.

Pidge

16 years ago

I don't really like driving at all but I have to drive on major highways, including an expressway, as part of my 35-40 minute commute. It would be possible to drive on a bunch of back roads for part of the commute, but I work in Philly so no matter how I cut it, I have to do city driving. Actually I think Philly is an easy city to negotiate and that the only problem is traffic congestion. I don't worry too much about accidents on City Avenue because traffic doesn't move fast so the worst that can happen is a fender-bender. I don't especially like driving on the expressway or the turnpike, but because the shortest distance between two points continues to be a straight line, I do it without really thinking about it. I'm making myself sound like Mario Andretti, which I certainly am not, but living in a suburb that is increasingly urban and working in a big city creates a different perspective. The one road I really hate to drive on is I-95--that one is a killer, literally as well as figuratively. I am always glad to get off it when I'm stuck with using it, which is usually when I'm going to Wilmington or further south.

oakleif

16 years ago

I don't have problems with height, freeways or country roads and that is such a great and true quote. One does have to prick and probe to understand their fear than go out and fight its unreasonableness. My fight works at least half the time. But than along comes a stumbling block and up comes the fear, unrational though it be.so the fight begins again.

My fear goes back to my childhood.No i don't go there. That is over and done with.

My fear? It's communication with the rest of my species, people.

Trust me. I'm going to say the wrong thing at the right time, and the world will hate me. What a thought. DO I think i'm important enough to make that big a differance to the world or even most people, Of course not but it's still a fear.

As calliope said "we are probably hardwired for fear" And some fear is good. I have a healthy fear of poisonous snakes. Do we have unreasonable fear because we have the ability to think too much?

Oh, It's my family that has the imaginary passenger brake when i drive. LOL

oscarthecat

16 years ago

Passenger brake, I must remember that one. Steve in Baltimore County.

andie_rathbone

16 years ago

Passenger break - I have one! ROTFL!

Josh

16 years ago

I've always preferred to let someone else drive, even with my first car in 1952 my Dad bought me for college. He had more confidence in my driving and made me promise I'd not allow anyone else to drive...but my roommate was my pilot...LOL And no passenger brake...I don't pay any attention which is why it's better to let someone else drive.

As to fears, irrational or not, I think there are some you can force yourself to ignore and some not. I have such a fear of heights that I can't watch tv when they show precipices of mountains or even tall buildings. Actually have to look away. I've read that it may be partly a fear that you will jump intentionally...isn't that strange?

Oakleaf, as long as someone doesn't intend to hurt or embarrass another, it's human nature to put foot in mouth occasionally, and is easily laughed off and forgiven. Of course, such incidents are often brought up again (especially by family) for the next twenty years..but who's counting? LOL

I'm not sure it's a fear but I've always felt very uncomfortable in crowded places ...starting I was told with the county fair when I was small but continuing so that I avoid anything held in a large auditorium or stadium, malls at peak times, etc. Yet I have no problem walking the crowded streets of NYC or shopping at Bloomingdales...LOL Now that's irrational! josh

tibs

16 years ago

Must be our roots, Calliope, I much prefer the twisty state and county and even township roads. I was at a transportation meeting some years back in Zanesville and it was said to be the most accident prone city in the state because the roads were like the spokes in a wheel. You had to come to the center of town. Course, they were trying to get $$$ from the state for some bypass. Never had any problem driving in Zanesville except for the crazy lane changes downtown because of the oneway roads. This block right lane is right turn only. Next block left lane is left turn only. Have to do a lot of zigging and zagging. But dangersous to drive in?

Pidge

16 years ago

I grew up on a farm and drove on plenty of twisty and zig-zaggy country roads and I was glad to leave them behind. Funny that as soon as they are brought up, I realize how much I prefer a straight road!

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