Name the Time you have been most scared.
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From: M.I.A.M.I., FLORIDA
Mine is a little long.
I was working for a demolition company that paid their workers in cash. I was with the owners daugher sitting down actually waiting for her dad to get back in to the office with the cash, so we were getting the payroll stubs together. Guy comes in, short hispanic guy, black rim glasses, asks where the girls dad was. We said he's not here right now, should be back soon. He said ok then he pulls out a revolver (silver barrel handgun type), points it at us and asks us where the money is. We tell him, we don't have any money. He said where are the envelopes (first sign it was someone who knew we paid in cash and in envelopes). We said we didn't know. He climbs over the reception window (there was no glass there) tells us not to look at him, all while we are begging at this point for our lives. The other girl is HYSTERICAL crying/sobbing. She had just had a baby and kept saying "Please please don't kill me i just had a baby". I was very calm and kinda kept assuring her to stop acting so hysterical cause she can freak this guy out then he will shoot us. He takes her into her dad's office making her look around for the money, when we tell him over and over that we do not have the money yet that he hadn't come back with it yet... maybe about after 15 mins and the phone ringing constantly he finally gave up, took her $6K wedding ring set and left both of us in her dad's office on the floor. She kept sobbing all while i kept reassuring her. Please calm down, calm down. You are freaking this guy out and then he will shoot us. We are going to stay on this floor until either someone comes to look for us, or we know the coast is clear.
About 2 mins later the girl from the Attorney's office next door, came in looking for us cause the girls father had been calling and calling with us not answering, he got worried and had them come look for us. Once we heard her voice we screamed! They called the cops and i think once i knew that it was over, i just started to sob. After that we hired a cop to be with us every single friday while we handed out paychecks.
I think i was so scared just having that pointed at me that i just i didn't know what to do. It's funny cause i've always had people tell me i should be come a cop, and i always say "After having a gun pointed at me, i will never be able to become a cop".
I was working for a demolition company that paid their workers in cash. I was with the owners daugher sitting down actually waiting for her dad to get back in to the office with the cash, so we were getting the payroll stubs together. Guy comes in, short hispanic guy, black rim glasses, asks where the girls dad was. We said he's not here right now, should be back soon. He said ok then he pulls out a revolver (silver barrel handgun type), points it at us and asks us where the money is. We tell him, we don't have any money. He said where are the envelopes (first sign it was someone who knew we paid in cash and in envelopes). We said we didn't know. He climbs over the reception window (there was no glass there) tells us not to look at him, all while we are begging at this point for our lives. The other girl is HYSTERICAL crying/sobbing. She had just had a baby and kept saying "Please please don't kill me i just had a baby". I was very calm and kinda kept assuring her to stop acting so hysterical cause she can freak this guy out then he will shoot us. He takes her into her dad's office making her look around for the money, when we tell him over and over that we do not have the money yet that he hadn't come back with it yet... maybe about after 15 mins and the phone ringing constantly he finally gave up, took her $6K wedding ring set and left both of us in her dad's office on the floor. She kept sobbing all while i kept reassuring her. Please calm down, calm down. You are freaking this guy out and then he will shoot us. We are going to stay on this floor until either someone comes to look for us, or we know the coast is clear.
About 2 mins later the girl from the Attorney's office next door, came in looking for us cause the girls father had been calling and calling with us not answering, he got worried and had them come look for us. Once we heard her voice we screamed! They called the cops and i think once i knew that it was over, i just started to sob. After that we hired a cop to be with us every single friday while we handed out paychecks.
I think i was so scared just having that pointed at me that i just i didn't know what to do. It's funny cause i've always had people tell me i should be come a cop, and i always say "After having a gun pointed at me, i will never be able to become a cop".
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Nothing really stands out...
Hmm... I almost wrecked my old RX-7 in to a guard rail after hitting some gravel. I can't say that I was scared though even though I probably would have been severely injured. I was 17 and stupid and going 100mph around a 30mph curve... (I still know to this day that had there not been gravel strewn all about the road I could have made it, but I'm not so willing to try something like that again.)... anyways, caught the gravel and the back end swung around 90
Hmm... I almost wrecked my old RX-7 in to a guard rail after hitting some gravel. I can't say that I was scared though even though I probably would have been severely injured. I was 17 and stupid and going 100mph around a 30mph curve... (I still know to this day that had there not been gravel strewn all about the road I could have made it, but I'm not so willing to try something like that again.)... anyways, caught the gravel and the back end swung around 90
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From: NYC
I was doing backflips off of the wall (like Neo in the first Matrix) at my school. I kicked off the wall three times and was about 12-15 feet in the air when my shoe sliped on my third step. I didn't make it completely over and fell straight upside down on the marble floor of my school. My hands hit first then my legs slammed shortly after. For the next 15 minutes I thought I was paralyzed because I could not feel my legs anymore, nor could I move them. After I moved my toe I knew I was ok. The pain started rushing in and I was relieved to feel some sort of sensation.
Another scary moment was when i was playing football for my high school. I was having a record game 2 touchdowns and 200+ yards Reggie Bush style when on one play the linemen let the defense through. I was tackled but I had the ball in front of me so I landed on the ball, then had two 300lb linemen jump on top of me. All of our weight was concentrated on the ball which was on my chest. I heard a crack and I thought my ribs were broken cause I could hardly breath. I walked away with only a cracked rib though.
Another scary moment was when i was playing football for my high school. I was having a record game 2 touchdowns and 200+ yards Reggie Bush style when on one play the linemen let the defense through. I was tackled but I had the ball in front of me so I landed on the ball, then had two 300lb linemen jump on top of me. All of our weight was concentrated on the ball which was on my chest. I heard a crack and I thought my ribs were broken cause I could hardly breath. I walked away with only a cracked rib though.
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Scariest for me was when I was in highschool. I showed up one day and spotted my girlfriend outside in tears. I walked up to her and asked her if everything was ok and she told me she was pregnant. 
Turned out she wasn't, but that was probably the scariest time until we found out for sure. Didn't want to end up a teen parent with some girl I knew was just a passing love interest. That would have really thrown a wrench in my life
Reminds me of a standup routine I heard on the radio. The guy gets up to heaven and is confronted by St. Peter on all the promises he made to God but didn't keep. The guy had no clue about any promises he made to God so St. Peter decides to read them off the list for him:
1 Please God don't let her be pregnant and I'll never have sex again
2 Please God don't let her be pregnant and I'll never have sex again
3 Please God don't let her be pregnant and I'll never have sex again
4 Please God don't let her be pregnant and I'll never drink again
5 Please God don't let her be pregnant and I'll never have sex again
Had me rolling on the floor for a while
Turned out she wasn't, but that was probably the scariest time until we found out for sure. Didn't want to end up a teen parent with some girl I knew was just a passing love interest. That would have really thrown a wrench in my life
Reminds me of a standup routine I heard on the radio. The guy gets up to heaven and is confronted by St. Peter on all the promises he made to God but didn't keep. The guy had no clue about any promises he made to God so St. Peter decides to read them off the list for him:
1 Please God don't let her be pregnant and I'll never have sex again
2 Please God don't let her be pregnant and I'll never have sex again
3 Please God don't let her be pregnant and I'll never have sex again
4 Please God don't let her be pregnant and I'll never drink again
5 Please God don't let her be pregnant and I'll never have sex again
Had me rolling on the floor for a while
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From: Napa
4th grade, didn't swim well, got in deep water, started drowning. My friends heard me yell, think I am fooling around. The third time I went under I saw the side close enough to reach. When I came up I grabbed it. I learned to swim pretty good after that. Thought my life was at an end. I still think the worst way to die would be to drown. (excluding torture or listening to rap until I slit my wrists)
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2004 spring, Brussels to London flight. the turbulence was so bad after taking off, i seriously thought we were all going to perish. people were screaming, crying, and yelling. the 737's engines were at full power most of the time but we went up and down (sometimes dropping so fast i can see people's necklaces floating).
