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purplegrum wrote:Daddy long legs - god I haaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaate them.
scotia47 wrote:purplegrum wrote:Daddy long legs - god I haaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaate them.
I hate them too, nasty lanky things. Dunno how I forgot to mention them earlier. If one ends up in my room, I refuse to go to sleep until it's gone. (it might land on me during the night *shudder*).
Second stripe, WOOHOO!!!
dr_lightning wrote:It's an odd one. Inside a tall building I'm fine.But if I was outside it's another matter.
*That is because you are outside and the edge is now possibly accessable*
Top of the Wallace Monument I was uncomfortable, even asking my wife not to take my arm, as I had some bizarre idea that if she slipped I would plummet to my death.
*I have abseiled off that 3 times. The bit where you have to lean back out gets me every time. Other than that I am fine.
The very first one I ever did was down the Glasgow University tower.
I have to tell you that, sitting on the ledge of the belfry halfway down, provides the most wonderful view. I was ok when I started off down again.*
Thing is, I know EXACTLY when this started.
*I do have a slight fear of being RIGHT at the edge of something tall. It started after I fell head first 4 meters off a clifflet. I was perfectly ok (I have a very thick head) but I do have the scar on my forehead to prove it.
I enjoy rock climbing, etc, and I have just had to get over it.*
At some sort of fair at Strathclyde Park years ago, the Paras had a thing where you could put on parachute harness and do a kind of jump thing from a scaffolding tower, all while wired up.
*That is ok because I know I will be ok, and if I am not, then, if I survive, I can sue them, simple as that! *
"That looks fun" thought the twelve-year old me. So I queued up to take my turn.
"I can't do it" said I. I wanted down,
*I once got to the top of a deathslide and couldn't do it when I was about 12.
I am almost convinced the guy pushed me anyway and I was not scared of it after that.
The only real problem would be if you leaned to much forwards so that you started to fall away from the side.*
I'm never doing that again, let me tell you.
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