(Intense sudden , ranging from the most effective “boo” or prank to “oh Christ, I could die this very moment and I’m about to or actually losing it.”)
Tie: in summer camp age 7 when the older kids and counselors had us watch “Psycho”; in target range, hearing first wave of Scud attack, Gulf War
When my 1 year old son (who’d just started running for the first time) fell and cut his head on our coffee table. He wasn’t hurt seriously, as it turned out, but he bled so profusely that I was in a blind panic as I drove him to the ER.
When my father died leaving me and my two sisters orphans. I was 18.
1990 on a flight from Albuquerque to LA with a stop on Tuscon. The first leg of the flight we met a thunderstorm head on - terrifying turbulence. I gripped the armrest so tightly, I nearly pulled it loose from its bolts.
A plane I was on aborted a landing and peeled off to one side with its wings nearly perpendicular to the ground. I though I was going to die.
Being caught in a rip tide and nearly dying while swimming with my two sons off the North Carolina coast.
Hit a patch of ice on an S-curve, lost control of my car and hit a truck head-on.
Ex-wife rolled her car on dark freeway, 6yo son thrown from vehicle, fractured skull…I lived 1500 miles away and the soonest flight was 18 hours later. Longest day of my life.
A passenger in a car during a storm when a lightning bolt hit a live power line and the wire came down on the car!
(Intense sudden , ranging from the most effective “boo” or prank to “oh Christ, I could die this very moment and I’m about to or actually losing it.”)
Tie: in summer camp age 7 when the older kids and counselors had us watch “Psycho”; in target range, hearing first wave of Scud attack, Gulf War
When my 1 year old son (who’d just started running for the first time) fell and cut his head on our coffee table. He wasn’t hurt seriously, as it turned out, but he bled so profusely that I was in a blind panic as I drove him to the ER.
When my father died leaving me and my two sisters orphans. I was 18.
1990 on a flight from Albuquerque to LA with a stop on Tuscon. The first leg of the flight we met a thunderstorm head on - terrifying turbulence. I gripped the armrest so tightly, I nearly pulled it loose from its bolts.
A plane I was on aborted a landing and peeled off to one side with its wings nearly perpendicular to the ground. I though I was going to die.
Being caught in a rip tide and nearly dying while swimming with my two sons off the North Carolina coast.
Hit a patch of ice on an S-curve, lost control of my car and hit a truck head-on.
Ex-wife rolled her car on dark freeway, 6yo son thrown from vehicle, fractured skull…I lived 1500 miles away and the soonest flight was 18 hours later. Longest day of my life.
A passenger in a car during a storm when a lightning bolt hit a live power line and the wire came down on the car!
Driving Interstate 355 in a blizzard and totally spinning out, drifting across three lanes to end up on the shoulder, miraculously unhurt and with not a ding on the car
(Intense sudden , ranging from the most effective “boo” or prank to “oh Christ, I could die this very moment and I’m about to or actually losing it.”)
Tie: in summer camp age 7 when the older kids and counselors had us watch “Psycho”; in target range, hearing first wave of Scud attack, Gulf War
When my 1 year old son (who’d just started running for the first time) fell and cut his head on our coffee table. He wasn’t hurt seriously, as it turned out, but he bled so profusely that I was in a blind panic as I drove him to the ER.
When my father died leaving me and my two sisters orphans. I was 18.
1990 on a flight from Albuquerque to LA with a stop on Tuscon. The first leg of the flight we met a thunderstorm head on - terrifying turbulence. I gripped the armrest so tightly, I nearly pulled it loose from its bolts.
A plane I was on aborted a landing and peeled off to one side with its wings nearly perpendicular to the ground. I though I was going to die.
Being caught in a rip tide and nearly dying while swimming with my two sons off the North Carolina coast.
Hit a patch of ice on an S-curve, lost control of my car and hit a truck head-on.
Ex-wife rolled her car on dark freeway, 6yo son thrown from vehicle, fractured skull…I lived 1500 miles away and the soonest flight was 18 hours later. Longest day of my life.
A passenger in a car during a storm when a lightning bolt hit a live power line and the wire came down on the car!
Driving Interstate 355 in a blizzard and totally spinning out, drifting across three lanes to end up on the shoulder, miraculously unhurt and with not a ding on the car
Went for a walk in the woods by myself and ended up lost in a cornfield. Sesame Street told me to walk backwards so I remember where I was but that did not help at all.
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Scariest moment in your life
(Intense sudden , ranging from the most effective “boo” or prank to “oh Christ, I could die this very moment and I’m about to or actually losing it.”)
Tie: in summer camp age 7 when the older kids and counselors had us watch “Psycho”; in target range, hearing first wave of Scud attack, Gulf War
When my 1 year old son (who’d just started running for the first time) fell and cut his head on our coffee table. He wasn’t hurt seriously, as it turned out, but he bled so profusely that I was in a blind panic as I drove him to the ER.
When my father died leaving me and my two sisters orphans. I was 18.
1990 on a flight from Albuquerque to LA with a stop on Tuscon. The first leg of the flight we met a thunderstorm head on - terrifying turbulence. I gripped the armrest so tightly, I nearly pulled it loose from its bolts.
A plane I was on aborted a landing and peeled off to one side with its wings nearly perpendicular to the ground. I though I was going to die.
Being caught in a rip tide and nearly dying while swimming with my two sons off the North Carolina coast.
Hit a patch of ice on an S-curve, lost control of my car and hit a truck head-on.
Ex-wife rolled her car on dark freeway, 6yo son thrown from vehicle, fractured skull…I lived 1500 miles away and the soonest flight was 18 hours later. Longest day of my life.
A passenger in a car during a storm when a lightning bolt hit a live power line and the wire came down on the car!
Driving Interstate 355 in a blizzard and totally spinning out, drifting across three lanes to end up on the shoulder, miraculously unhurt and with not a ding on the car
Went for a walk in the woods by myself and ended up lost in a cornfield. Sesame Street told me to walk backwards so I remember where I was but that did not help at all.
When I thought I was going to be late for school, in ninth grade. I haven’t been that scared since. School teaches you the true meaning of fear.
(Intense sudden , ranging from the most effective “boo” or prank to “oh Christ, I could die this very moment and I’m about to or actually losing it.”)
Tie: in summer camp age 7 when the older kids and counselors had us watch “Psycho”; in target range, hearing first wave of Scud attack, Gulf War
When my 1 year old son (who’d just started running for the first time) fell and cut his head on our coffee table. He wasn’t hurt seriously, as it turned out, but he bled so profusely that I was in a blind panic as I drove him to the ER.
When my father died leaving me and my two sisters orphans. I was 18.
1990 on a flight from Albuquerque to LA with a stop on Tuscon. The first leg of the flight we met a thunderstorm head on - terrifying turbulence. I gripped the armrest so tightly, I nearly pulled it loose from its bolts.
A plane I was on aborted a landing and peeled off to one side with its wings nearly perpendicular to the ground. I though I was going to die.
Being caught in a rip tide and nearly dying while swimming with my two sons off the North Carolina coast.
Hit a patch of ice on an S-curve, lost control of my car and hit a truck head-on.
Ex-wife rolled her car on dark freeway, 6yo son thrown from vehicle, fractured skull…I lived 1500 miles away and the soonest flight was 18 hours later. Longest day of my life.
A passenger in a car during a storm when a lightning bolt hit a live power line and the wire came down on the car!
Driving Interstate 355 in a blizzard and totally spinning out, drifting across three lanes to end up on the shoulder, miraculously unhurt and with not a ding on the car
Went for a walk in the woods by myself and ended up lost in a cornfield. Sesame Street told me to walk backwards so I remember where I was but that did not help at all.
When I thought I was going to be late for school, in ninth grade. I haven’t been that scared since. School teaches you the true meaning of fear.
Having my and my father’s lives threatened by a guy who thought (erroneously) that we had done him wrong.