HAY GUYS

acid · Local time: Aug 20, 2006, 03:17 PM

Originally Posted by Sir VG

(And statistically, the chances of a plane crashing are less than a car crashing, but you only hear more about the former because of the # of people involved compared to the latter.)

Yet far more people die as a result of car crashes. You hear more about the former because it happens to rarely. A big fucking plane falling out of the sky HOLY SHIT! 14 people wrapping their civics around a pole? Saw that last week.

Originally Posted by Sassafrass

I never really had a fear of flying when I was younger. This past March though, I flew to Vegas and I realized that as I get older, I get a lot more chickenshit about things.

Take off used to be the most exhilarating thing I could imagine. I used to love to stare down at the ground while flying into the air so fast and high. Until I flew to Vegas, wherein I did nothing but clutch the seats VERY TIGHTLY and almost started crying. I have no idea why I got so frightened.

It bothers me as well when I am 30,000 ft above the Earth's surface. I have to STOP myself from thinking about how humans aren't supposed to be that high up, and how if something were to happen in the air way the hell up in the heavens that we're pretty much fucked. We're all going to die.

I have no idea how to overcome it - the only thing I can suggest is bring something that you can be distracted with. Denial is a great medication. ^_^

I'm the exact same way. Flew to Disneyworld twice as a kid. Fine. It was the best thing ever and I fought my dad for the window seat, face plastered against the glass. Flew to France on high school. Not a problem, wasnt scared at all. Flew back to Florida last year. Nervous wreck. Couldn't sleep,couldn't really eat, couldn't relax at all. Had my left hand on the seat so tight I thought I was going to snap it and my right hand on my girlfriends hand so hard I think I was hurting her. Then we hit some turbulance. I was convinced I was going to die.

The worst part about it was that I was completely aware of how irrational I was being. I know the statistics of dying in a crash, I know that every other plane flying out of the same airport is hitting the same turbluance, and is not crashing down. I know that the pilot has probably done this before. But you can't help it, and start to freak out.

My mother used to be really bad with flying. The last time she flew she went to the doctor, got some kind of medication, and actually went to talk to a professional. She was fine. Reading a book calmly as her son, the former airplane lover, was making his piece with God.

Next trip I take, I'm going to see a Doctor and get something to calm me down. And maybe some anti-venom.

Jam it back in, in the dark.

acid · Local time: Aug 21, 2006, 12:15 AM

Originally Posted by Chyna~Girl

I know the stats on airplanes being safer than cars... but look at it this way... I could be in a car accident tomorrow and live... I could get in a plane in December and if it crashes I'm as good as dead. Point being you can live in a car accident... NOT an airplane.

Can someone explain the lift off and the landing? Also I heard you chew gum for the ear popping thing... I don't chew gum, so what do I do?

The actual statistic isn't that you are more likely to be in a car crash, it's that you're more likely to DIE in a car crash than in a plane crash.

So yeah, not only are you more likely to be in a fender-bender, you're also more likely to be in a fatal crash than a plane crash.

There's nowhere I can't reach.