"There are countless horrible things happening all over the world and horrible people prospering, but we must never allow them to disturb our equanimity or deflect us from our sacred duty to sabotage and annoy them whenever possible." -Auberon Waugh
Monday, March 14, 2016
I admit it, great heights give me a queasy feeling
It's funny how sometimes the difficulty only comes when you're on the ground.
I've got a friend ex Air Force who spent his time hanging out of helicopters. But he can't go near the handrail at a lookout. I'm the same, I love the window seat when flying, but queasy on a building.
Mr. H and I went up to the top of the Stratosphere in Vegas one year. He rode the roller coaster on the outside of the building, 800 feet above the ground. I didn't. I could barely approach the windows.
I have been known to sit down facing the door in glass elevators. I can only go near windows in tall buildings if I look straight ahead at the horizon. I cannot walk across bridges, nor can i climb great heights. Glass bottom helicopters scare the daylights out of me, as do gondolas up the mountain. But get in a tube to fly 3000 miles across the Atlantic - no problem.
A friend of mine once let me ride the wrecking ball on a crane; took me up seven or eight stories, and then left to go get a coke. This certainly did nothing to reduce my fear of heights.
It's funny how sometimes the difficulty only comes when you're on the ground.
ReplyDeleteI've got a friend ex Air Force who spent his time hanging out of helicopters. But he can't go near the handrail at a lookout. I'm the same, I love the window seat when flying, but queasy on a building.
Mr. H and I went up to the top of the Stratosphere in Vegas one year. He rode the roller coaster on the outside of the building, 800 feet above the ground. I didn't. I could barely approach the windows.
ReplyDeleteI have been known to sit down facing the door in glass elevators. I can only go near windows in tall buildings if I look straight ahead at the horizon. I cannot walk across bridges, nor can i climb great heights. Glass bottom helicopters scare the daylights out of me, as do gondolas up the mountain. But get in a tube to fly 3000 miles across the Atlantic - no problem.
ReplyDeleteA friend of mine once let me ride the wrecking ball on a crane; took me up seven or eight stories, and then left to go get a coke. This certainly did nothing to reduce my fear of heights.
ReplyDeleteLet's just make sure that multi-megawatt antenna isn't transmitting, ok?
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