I have a long post in the works but due to my superb laziness I keep putting it off. So I decided to write something not so long.
Most people who know me, or probably everybody that knows me knows that I am a daredevil at any time of the day. Say it and I'll do it. I've hung upside down from the outside of a 3rd floor balcony, didn't feel one ounce of fright. I've driven at somewhere around 115mph, felt great. I've lit my hand on fire, blew fire out of my mouth, and all other type of pyro things that should have me looking like the Michael Jackson Pepsi Commercial gone wrong by now. And I've done a countless number of other things that have my friends ready to put 911 on speed dial whenever they're around me. None of these things have scared me the slightest bit.
But public transportation, most notably being on an airplane scares the living daylight out of me. The ride over here was ok, I only visualized the plane crashing about 10 times(messed up I know, but I don't know why I do it). Seriously every time the plane hit the slightest bit of turbulence, my first thought is "Alright here it goes, at least I can swim good." And since the whole Air France debacle, just thinking of the next time I have to be on a plane makes me want to pee my pants.
Even when I'm on the subway, I get these final destination type flashes that the train is about to derail and shred into pieces. EVERYTIME. I'm not like on the subway huddled up in a little corner, the thoughts just come and go every now and then.
Even being on a bus is slightly disturbing. It doesn't help that the bus drivers here drive like they're in the movie "Speed" and can't go below 50mph. It's just something about a large number of people's lives being in the hands of one or two people. It seriously freaks me out that one slight mistake could have devastating consequences. You might say that when I drive one mistake could have the same consequences too, but what gets to me is the magnitude. When the Air France plane went down, so did 228 people. In 1977, 583 people died when 2 planes collided on the runway in the Canary Islands.
