General Chat

Compared to some of the tales mine seems very tame. I was cycling in Cuba a few years ago when I bonked (blood sugar level plummets, no energy, no control) as I went over the top of a hill. The road was very pot holed and all i could do was sit there and hang on. I darnt break as i did not know what I was doing. The bike behaved briliantly and rode the holes and the curves. I found luch at the bottom and then looked back up after I had stpped shaking. I could not belive the steepness of the road or the state of the surface. luckyly the roads are quite out there and nothing else was about at the time. Bob

My scariest experience was when i had to leave my home with my 3 kids, and take nothing with me! I was married to a NASTY man, one day it got Very nasty and the police had to take me away. I was sleeping on my mums floor with the kids for months, no belongings, no money nothing! It all turned out ok in the end, i have a lovely home another child and great fella, but it was horrible.

car crash September 2003. Other car on the wrong side of the road came round a bend and hit mine head on. Smoke in the car, thought I was going to die. Joy

mine has to be the paddington train crash. bryan.

Postie Paul... Good... because... I was wondering... <bec gets down on one knee>... Will you help me find my earring... I dropped it just here on the floor....? lol

when i was 7 and having to wait for my mum or dad to tell me if my brother was comming home after he went missing (aged 10). even more scarier was 3 days later watching a police officer break down when he had to tell my parents his body had been found.

On a very dark night on my own at an isolated farm, no lights, i opened big sliding door when out swooped a huge white barn owl, that made the hairs stand up on the back of my neck. David

Taking the wife out for her first [and last ]driving lesson.Fred.ptfg.

Sitting beside my son at 2yrs old thought he had gone in to a diabetic coma he was had a drip put in his ankle and he was on heart monitors but he has a metabolic condition he is now 18yrs old and 5ft 9ins tall and a pain in neck wouldn't want it any other way

Went to watch a medium at work at our local cinema, went with a friend who had just lost her son in a road accident, we were on the front row of the balcony when this medium pointed to us and asked if there was anyone who had lost a son, she felt a pain on her head-(a lamppost fell on him), I just froze, I clung on to my friend 'cos I thought she might jump over the balcony if she thought her son was there, I have never been so scared, Anyway the lady behind us said it was her son and it seemed it was!!!

I was about 6 and I got separated from my family on the beach at Hayling Island. I wandered around for what seemed ages before I found them. Strangely, I don't remember feeling that scared to start with but Mum and Dad were frantic!

What a lot of horror stories - glad you all survived. I remember being scared a few times when we've had some near-misses on motorways - more so now that we have children. Husband drives so is usually concentrating on that - passenger seat can be a scary place sometimes. I've had a few hairy moments when the boys were younger and I thought I'd lost one of them. I remember buying flowers for my mother on a v. busy Saturday. The boys were in the porch of the flower shop, where I'd told them to stay. I turned momentarily to collect my receipt, turned back and the younger one had gone. Typically the elder one hadn't noticed. I had no idea which way he'd gone and couldn't remember what he was wearing. Total panic for a few seconds, but then he came back. He'd just assumed I'd started going home - not realising I wouldn't have left his brother behind! Boys! nell

when ruby had meningacocal scepticemia (spelling??) and was on life support. Then again when she caught pneumonia due to the meningitus xx

A few years ago (I was 16) we went on a holiday to Turkey. My mum, brother, sister and I went on a boat trip. Suddenly the weather took a turn for the worst and the boat was rocking violently. The crew looked worried and the passengers were crying/hyperventilating/vomiting. My mother, sister and brother were all hysterical and I can remember sitting there thinking how I was going to save them all if we went over. None of them are strong swimmers and my mum has poor health so I was so scared about how to look after them. Eventually we made it back to the port and we were safe. I've never been so scared for my family than that day. I wasn't worried about myself, I just remember feeling such crushing responsibility. Becx

Hard to say; I was diagnosed with a lump in my right hand jaw when I was 14 and had to have a series of operations to firstly remove it and then to heal the affected area. At the time, it was probably scarier for my parents than for myself as the enormity of the problem was shielded somewhat from me, whereas my parents had a few sleepless nights. However the whole experience from start to finish was unnerving, not knowing whether the whole thing would flare up again, etc.

oh, and seeing Jackie Stallone last night!!!

Viewing a dead body for the first time & not knowing what to expect. Lying on the theatre table about to be cut open while awake for my first caesarean.Could still feel touch so was terrified it was going to hurt. (It diddnt) Elaine x

Angels Linda,glad you were OK-How do you feel about driving now? I used to drive sports cars in my youth and was coming down the overtaking lane past the Clock restaurant outside Welwyn Herts,thirty years ago when a B- -S- ARD OF A LORRY DRIVER just pulled across in front of me. I went under the tail of the lorry.If I had been in a saloon car it would have taken my head off.I only escaped injury because you were in almost a prone position driving these cars. I used to test drive them up and down the A1 a great job while it lasted-Rose

Flying in a 12 seater plane from Las Vegas to the Grand Canyon we hit an air pocket halfway and dropped about 200 feet!! I was sitting just behind the pilot who spent his time writing notes and generally not watching where he was going! So I really don't remember anything about the canyon and certainly didn't look at it from the plane. The hour long flight on the way back was the scariest time I have ever spent. Maz. XX ps hubby went to sleep!!!

Well...before Christmas I almost got ran over by a car because there is so much traffic here and the crossing is on the wrong side of the road! Lucia