Simple task scares you?

I am a bit surprised at the things people are scared of but I have to admit I have never been on a roller coaster or any of those rides you see at Alton Towers or elsewhere. When I took a school group there I was the teacher who sat in the cafe all day that children could find if they needed an adult.

I was coerce into doing white water rafting when I was in NZ last Christmas I don't like going under water at all and it was the most terrifying thing I ve ever done going down a 27ft fall and landing under the water before coming up again was one part of it after that bit I managed to find a way of tucking my head into the life jacket and most of the photos of me I look like a tortoise with my head tucked in causing plenty of laughter amongst the family I would NEVER do it againWecalso had to walk through a 'squeeze alley' of rocks and as I m a bit claustrophobic too so that was a continuation of the torture
As I ve got older a lot of things I enjoyed even everyday tasks I have become fearful of like in half an hour going to the dentist with a painful abscess dreading it

Oh yes I have no idea how to parallel park. I wake up scared every morning, but I'm just scared of life in general.

Me too, I can't believe how political Facebook has become after the Bexit vote. I thought Facebook was for fun and information, not a political platform! I nearly left!

I can't parallel park for toffee but nothing else driving wise worries me. I have a friend who wouldn't attempt to use our lovely new, bright, widebay, John Lewis car park until her husband had driven her there to prove that she'd manage.

I will try most things but hate water and heights. I have had to walk round the ramparts of a castle with my eyes half shut when the self administered stiff talking to didn't work.

The Very worst experience I had was the time DS and his fiance took us to a hotel in Japan via the scenic route. The route involved a cable car through the tops of trees emerging over a huge lake. Apparently it was beautiful but I wouldn't know!

I will try most things but so far haven't dared to use those clicker, scanner things on items you buy in supermarkets! I have gone as far as getting a leaflet but lost it on the way home. I am determined that I will use them one day, as I will also do a sky dive, when I have saved enough money. (Bucket list hot air balloon done this year!) I have forced myself to use the self service checkouts but nearly always have to call for assistance when they the machine orders me to do so. No I haven't felt old and past it, as all the assistants have been very respectful and helpful, so far anyway.
I have to say I am still paranoid about walking behind parked cars since I got knocked over by one reversing down a one way street last year.

Even as a passenger I am terrified of motorways. The whole time we are one I am thinking "I am going to die". If I'm not thinking that then I am praying to keep us safe.

Slip roads on motorways.Have to drive fast but my brain says 'this is dangerous, slow down'. And I don't trust mirrors so I have to look backwards. The S.O. does all the driving now, thankfully. I'm not sure that I'll ever have the courage to drive on motorways again.

I felt quite green round the gills just reading your post wb

I can do parallel parking - we live on a main road where parking is limited, so I've had to learn! I don't mind automatic car washes, but we have one near us where you have to align your wheels with a conveyer system, which then pulls you through the wash. No way will I attempt that! I couldn't bear the thought of misaligning the wheels and feeling like a complete idiot!

Many years ago I was responsible for installing a water cooling system for our factory. The company we were considering suggested I look at the system that Ilford Films had. I didn't give a thought as to what the access to their roof would be. It was on the roof of a very high building only accessible by a ladder up the side of the building, it did have safety hoops, so you couldn't fall of, but I nearly s... myself when it came to stepping off the roof back onto the ladder.

There's a glass floor near the top of Blackpool tower too people, just to warn you and at Bluewater shopping centre. The shopping centre floor is obscure glass but D won't cross either floors.

I have to say that I am fairly laid back about most situations but, after an incident involving someone close to the family, I am really wary of farm vehicles, tractors, combines and the like, and will travel for miles behind them and not attempt to overtake unless they go onto the verge. And having them come towards me is even worse, makes my hair stand on end.

Nellimoser, They are two of the ones I was talking about!!!

Some roundabouts are less frightening than others. Those on the ring road in Sheffield terrify me. I have hated them ever since DD went to uni.

I used to be very good at parallel parking in the side roads where I worked. Since I retired six years ago I really struggle.
I am not worried about flying by myself It's the worry of getting to the airport and finding the right carpark. I use meet and greet now after one traumatic journey where I got shunted out of the terminal onto a road heading in the wrong direction. Just Terminal 1 meet and greet in Manchester to locate next year.

Cooking especially in someone else's kitchen.

Parallel parking and heights! I was never taught to park like this but manage to avoid having to do it even if I've to drive round the block a couple of times. The heights thing is odd....mountains aren't a problem but anything man made is. It's not just looking down that's an issue but looking up at a tall building also makes me dizzy. I believe it's a form of vertigo. My idea of hell would be Manhattan!! Flying is pretty problematic due to the height thing as well. I wouldn't fly for 40 years but have made some trips in the last few years. Not as bad as I'd feared but I only have a 2-3 hour tolerance before I really need to get off.

Motorway driving for me too and like you Twice as Nice I went up a similar tower in Calgary with my Canadian cousin and she couldn't get me to walk over the glass floor for love or money, heights freak me out, even pictures of people doing dare devil things such as hanging over a precipice somewhere like the Grand Canyon make me go hot and cold

Getting up on a step ladder to change a light bulb is something I find intimidating nowadays. I may soon be in the dark!

Chicken I am the same about bridges with planks.
It dates back to coming home from Sunday School and one if the boys would dare us all to cross what was known as the Monkey Bridge. It went over a railway and goods yard and you could see the rails between the gaps in the planks. It seemed to go on for miles and I was terrified. I still dislike footbridges.

I am with you over the glass floor chicken there was one in the tower in Toronto and I just couldn't make myself do it. I won't use self service petrol pumps or checkouts in the supermarket, when staff try to make me I reply I am paying to be served! I'm ok with roundabouts and cable cars . I also don't like cash points I'm always convinced I'll lose my card

Fortunately motorways, multi stories and roundabouts don't phase me.
However, I don't do parallel parking. (I was never taught) . I've never been through a car wash and I don't like suspended balconies or wobbly things that are high up

I can't bear going over a footbridge with gaps between the planks where you can see the area beneath, and when I went round HMS Victory I was horrified to find that halfway round we had to walk over a part of the deck that was totally transparent glass. Luckily, my good friend was with me, and she guided me over it while I screwed my eyes tight shut!( There was no option to retrace your steps, so if she hadn't been with me, I would still be there today.)

I don't like roundabouts either, but had a baptism of fire last year when DH had an op as a day case and I had to drive him home across the city at rush hour, negotiating three of the biggest, scariest roundabouts you could never wish to meet. Terrified is not the word and when we got home - unscathed more by luck than good judgement - I was a trembling wreck.

I am scared of heights , can't look down from a first floor window, yet have climbed mountains , lifts are a no no , when having an op as I was wheeled towards the lift I was shaking, the nurse assured me the op would be just fine , I said - sod the op it's that lift

Shanma, perhaps lively is more apt than exciting for political threads