I hate heights.....

Daz · May 2006

So F this! http://www.cnn.com/2006/TECH/05/11/grand.canyon.skywalk/index.html
15 seconds is a long time to contemplate your imminent end of existence. Obviously it'll be pretty safe, but I'm a pussy.

Joao Sapiro · May 2006

the moment i step in the glass i would freeze and they there for weeks.

snemmy · May 2006

yikes.. i dont like heights either, but as long as the footing is STABLE then i would try to try it. but yikes.. those updrafts sound brutal. o.o

thnom · May 2006

You gurl.

killingpeople · May 2006

arizona! woo!

MoP · May 2006

Looks like fun!

Daz · May 2006

I tried to explain this to Poop, Arsh, V and Ruggels the other night when the subject came up but I think I scared them. Personally, I'm afraid of acting on my impulse to jump. No matter how small it is, it's there.

Tulkamir · May 2006

That'd be quite the experience, I'd deffinatly like to check it out.

Though I can understand the fear. I'm actually afraid of heights, I just ignore it. (I want to skydive and bungee jump and stuff still).

:P

cholden · May 2006

In the Appalachian Mountains in North Carolina, theres this mountain famous for tourism at Lake Lure called Chimney Rock (plenty of those in the world). Near the rock itself, theres a restaurant build on the side of the mountain. It has that effect on one side because of its huge glass windows. You look and all you see is down. Its very cool, like this, but also creepy if youre scared of heights.

Daz, I sometimes get that same feeling of wanting to jump. We crazy.

Joshua Stubbles · May 2006

Daz - same here, man.

I stayed in a hotel a few months back, here in town. We got a free penthouse suite, with floor-to-ceiling windows, about 20floors up.

Standing next to the window, I had an unsettling feeling to jump. Small, but it was there. F'd up, if you ask me - I sure as hell don't want to die.

Joseph Silverman · May 2006

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Standing next to the window, I had an unsettling feeling to jump. Small, but it was there. F'd up, if you ask me - I sure as hell don't want to die.

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Yeah, I get the same thing. It's not that I'm seriously considering jumping, it's just the thought that I physically could that comes into my mind.

killingpeople · May 2006

being able to resist those impulses make you normal.

Dukester · May 2006

I'm absolutely not afraid of heights and I would venture out onto the bridge once to take some pics. Still it is kind of a freaky thing walking out on glass. I would not spend a whole lot of time on it

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I tried to explain this to Poop, Arsh, V and Ruggels the other night when the subject came up but I think I scared them. Personally, I'm afraid of acting on my impulse to jump. No matter how small it is, it's there.

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LOL, Daz! I get the same kind of feeling if I'm going to a titbar ;D

flaagan · May 2006

When I visited the grand canyon this past summer, there was a large outcropping that went about 30-40 yds from the edge of the walkway out to the canyon... walked out to the edge of that and took a few photos... wind was blowing pretty hard, and it was a loooooooooooooooooong way down on either side... I'd feel much safer on that walkway than where I was standing...

rawkstar · May 2006

hehe yeah i have that all the time... every time i'm walking on the side of the bridge or the roof of a building i have to control myself to not jump over...

JonMurphy · May 2006

So, there you go, Daz. Perfectly normal (I'll chime in and say I get it too)

Walkway sounds great. Could do worse things. You could try hiking down to skeleton point with loafers and 500ml of water. .. (no, not me. Someone in my party)

Paul Jaquays · May 2006

Heights in games even give me the willies. Don't go out in the infinity room in House on the Rock in Wisconsin if it does the same to you.

JKMakowka · May 2006

Now if you could bungee-jump from the tip of it....

Eric Chadwick · May 2006

I sat out on the diving board on Half Dome in Yosemite a few years back, dangled my legs over. What a thrill! Wouldn't do it now though, I guess I changed after having kids.

My father-in-law has to actually grab onto things to stop himself from jumping off heights, very scary being around him, and scary for himself of course.

I hate heights.....

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