# Room 101...your greatest fear **URL:** \ **Category:** Miscellaneous and Personal Stuff I Must Share\ **Created:** [October 29, 2008, 8:19am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/room-101-your-greatest-fear/470060 "2008-10-29T08:19:31Z")\ **Posts on this page:** 18\ **Page:** 3
**Author:** ![Satellite\_Guy](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/s/258eb7/32.png) [@Satellite\_Guy](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Satellite_Guy)\ **Post date:** [October 30, 2008, 4:16am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/room-101-your-greatest-fear/470060/41 "2008-10-30T04:16:16Z")
Widths. (10 points to the first to name the reference) On a serious note, imagine, if you will, a hallway, where you can’t get out. in front of you is a huge cylinder covered in sharp spikes, S–L--O–W--L–Y rolling toward you. I mean, this thing is monstrously massive, and it’s moving about a foot per minute. Did I mention you can’t escape? (this is a nightmare I had when I was elementary-school-aged, and it’s what I associate with anxiety and panic attacks even now.) S^G ---
**Author:** ![chowder](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/c/977dab/32.png) [@chowder](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/chowder)\ **Post date:** [October 30, 2008, 7:13am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/room-101-your-greatest-fear/470060/42 "2008-10-30T07:13:17Z")
> [@DocCathode](#): > > My biggest fears are failure and life time commitment to a mental institution. > > I don’t see how he could do the first. He’s already accomplished the first. The fact that you’re in his grubby mitts means you’ve failed. Oh and after he’s finished doing whatever he does, the mental inst. is your next port of call. Enjoy;) ---
**Author:** ![Sevastopol](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/s/cdc98d/32.png) [@Sevastopol](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Sevastopol)\ **Post date:** [October 30, 2008, 9:21am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/room-101-your-greatest-fear/470060/43 "2008-10-30T09:21:51Z")
Removed from my normal life to repeat a year of high school. (What’s the grief with spiders? Spiders are cool.) ---
**Author:** ![Der\_Trihs](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/der_trihs/32/233_2.png) [@Der\_Trihs](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Der_Trihs)\ **Post date:** [October 30, 2008, 9:33am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/room-101-your-greatest-fear/470060/44 "2008-10-30T09:33:05Z")
O’Brian : “We of course have overheard your mutters, observed your deepest fears . . .” Me : “No, not that !” O’Brian : “Yes, all that muttering about your “privacy” - bad enough in itself - and your whining that no one must read your secret thoughts in your diary. Which, of course, we have acquired.” Me : “No, please don’t read it !” O’Brian : “And what a silly name for a diary. “_Necronomicon_”, indeed. No doubt some political reference; we’ll learn soon enough. I will read every word, while you watch !” \*O’Brian reaches for the cover, opens it . . . \* ---
**Author:** ![EpicNonsense](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/e/c37758/32.png) [@EpicNonsense](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/EpicNonsense)\ **Post date:** [October 30, 2008, 9:53am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/room-101-your-greatest-fear/470060/45 "2008-10-30T09:53:28Z")
> [@Hazle\_Weatherfield](#): > > Michael Myers, just sitting there, staring vacantly at me, then moving imperceptably closer… > [@Mahaloth](#): > > Especially if he’s doing his Love Guru character. 😛 > > For me, it would be spiders. Loads of spiders. :eek: I think he’s talking about the [OTHER](http://www.iwatchstuff.com/2007/02/27/mike-myers.jpg) Michael Myers… For me, actually ending up in one of the contraptions from the SAW film series. That would suck! ---
**Author:** ![Chimera](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/c/8e8cbc/32.png) [@Chimera](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Chimera)\ **Post date:** [October 30, 2008, 11:47am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/room-101-your-greatest-fear/470060/46 "2008-10-30T11:47:58Z")
> [@Der\_Trihs](#): > > O’Brian : “And what a silly name for a diary. “_Necronomicon_”, indeed. No doubt some political reference; we’ll learn soon enough. I will read every word, while you watch !” > > \*O’Brian reaches for the cover, opens it . . . \* And proceeds to read aloud the Vogon poetry contained within. ---
**Author:** ![Annie-Xmas](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/a/ecc23a/32.png) [@Annie-Xmas](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Annie-Xmas)\ **Post date:** [October 30, 2008, 12:27pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/room-101-your-greatest-fear/470060/47 "2008-10-30T12:27:45Z")
Wooden ice cream paddles. I’m serious. Those things freak me out. I cannot stand to watch someone eat with them. ---
**Author:** ![Rhythmdvl](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/r/85f322/32.png) [@Rhythmdvl](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Rhythmdvl)\ **Post date:** [October 30, 2008, 2:12pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/room-101-your-greatest-fear/470060/48 "2008-10-30T14:12:59Z")
> [@Der\_Trihs](#): > > \*O’Brian reaches for the cover, opens it . . . \* while saying Klaatu Barada… ni– Klaatu Barada…_necktie!_ No, wait. Klaatu Barada NNNnnnnn… ---
**Author:** ![Shodan](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/s/9f8e36/32.png) [@Shodan](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Shodan)\ **Post date:** [October 30, 2008, 2:54pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/room-101-your-greatest-fear/470060/49 "2008-10-30T14:54:27Z")
> [@Satellite\_Guy](#): > > Widths. > (10 points to the first to name the reference) Steven Wright? ---
**Author:** ![AllWalker](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/a/db5fbb/32.png) [@AllWalker](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/AllWalker)\ **Post date:** [October 30, 2008, 3:05pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/room-101-your-greatest-fear/470060/50 "2008-10-30T15:05:39Z")
There is nothing to fear but fear itself. So, I need to stay away from [first person shooters](http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/F.E.A.R.), as well as [Japanese game companies](http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/FarEast_Amusement_Research) and [activist groups concerned over forfeitures in America](http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Forfeiture_Endangers_American_Rights). That’s some scary shit right there. ---
**Author:** ![Illuminatiprimus](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/illuminatiprimus/32/11520_2.png) [@Illuminatiprimus](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Illuminatiprimus)\ **Post date:** [October 30, 2008, 3:30pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/room-101-your-greatest-fear/470060/51 "2008-10-30T15:30:24Z")
> [@Sevastopol](#): > > Removed from my normal life to repeat a year of high school. I hadn’t thought about that one, funny really considering I have regular nightmares that I’m back in school. ---
**Author:** ![BaneSidhe](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/b/c5a1d2/32.png) [@BaneSidhe](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/BaneSidhe)\ **Post date:** [October 30, 2008, 3:44pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/room-101-your-greatest-fear/470060/52 "2008-10-30T15:44:33Z")
Falling into a pool drain and the drain being just small enough for me to be sucked through it SLOOOOOWWWLLLY… ---
**Author:** ![chowder](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/c/977dab/32.png) [@chowder](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/chowder)\ **Post date:** [October 30, 2008, 4:38pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/room-101-your-greatest-fear/470060/53 "2008-10-30T16:38:11Z")
[quote=“Sevastopol, post:43, topic:470060”] Removed from my normal life to repeat a year of high school. Have you read _Replay_? ---
**Author:** ![CalMeacham](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/calmeacham/32/35_2.png) [@CalMeacham](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/CalMeacham)\ **Post date:** [October 30, 2008, 4:58pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/room-101-your-greatest-fear/470060/54 "2008-10-30T16:58:32Z")
**Satellite^guy** wrote: > [@](#): > > Widths. > (10 points to the first to name the reference) Steven Wright routine, delivered totally deadpan (like everything he does): “Most people are afraid of heights. I’m afraid of widths.” ---
**Author:** ![Der\_Trihs](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/der_trihs/32/233_2.png) [@Der\_Trihs](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Der_Trihs)\ **Post date:** [October 30, 2008, 7:30pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/room-101-your-greatest-fear/470060/55 "2008-10-30T19:30:10Z")
> [@Chimera](#): > > And proceeds to read aloud the Vogon poetry contained within. - Pale faced, gasping, sweat beading on his forehead, O’Brian reaches to turn to the next page with a shaking hand \* “This . . . being a ruthless agent of tyranny . . . isn’t as easy as it looks sometimes . . .” ---
**Author:** ![Sevastopol](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/s/cdc98d/32.png) [@Sevastopol](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Sevastopol)\ **Post date:** [October 31, 2008, 9:57am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/room-101-your-greatest-fear/470060/56 "2008-10-31T09:57:15Z")
> [@Illuminatiprimus](#): > > I hadn’t thought about that one, funny really considering I have regular nightmares that I’m back in school. Nightmares are where it comes from. [QUOTE=chowder] [QUOTE=Sevastopol] Removed from my normal life to repeat a year of high school. [/QUOTE] Have you read _Replay_? [/QUOTE] No, my imagination is brimful of terrors as it is. ---
**Author:** ![Acorns.but\_not\_Bacon](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/a/3da27b/32.png) [@Acorns.but\_not\_Bacon](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Acorns.but_not_Bacon)\ **Post date:** [October 31, 2008, 10:26am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/room-101-your-greatest-fear/470060/57 "2008-10-31T10:26:10Z")
Well death I suppose but if I’m afraid of death I might aswell be afraid of the Sun or my toenails growing, _shrug_ it’s nature. Guns I find scary, they’re vicious and sleek. I can imagine holding a gun and how incredibly nervous I would feel and how daintily I would handle it. Then I’m afraid I might have the urge to shoot myself, not in a depressive way understand! But in a way where you’re walking along a cliff edge and your brain sort of dares you to stand _really_ close to the edge. I believe there was an essay written by Edgar Allen Poe(?) about such feelings…? Plus there was an entire thread dedicated to it. Oh and another thing for Room 101? John McCain’s voice. It’s a bit like nails on chalkboard; goes right through me. ---
**Author:** ![LightWithoutHeattttttttttttttt](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/l/bc8723/32.png) [@LightWithoutHeattttttttttttttt](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/LightWithoutHeattttttttttttttt)\ **Post date:** [October 31, 2008, 12:23pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/room-101-your-greatest-fear/470060/58 "2008-10-31T12:23:20Z")
> [@Winston\_Smith](#): > > To be exposed before my peers. How very Roger Waters-ish of you. [Previous page](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/room-101-your-greatest-fear/470060.md?page=2)