Have a Fear of Heights?

[Kevy Baby]

Originally Posted by blueerica

Oh, it's not imminent death when you're securely in place up high. It's just imminent death when the cables break.

It's not the cable breaking or the fall that kills you - it's that sudden stop at the bottom that gets ya.

I'm not afraid of heights; I'm afraid of the ground.

Originally Posted by BarTopDancer

Yet I find myself OK in the skybuckets at the SD Zoo and the big giant ferris wheel at the OC Fair.

I can handle the high stuff, but I am surprisingly uneasy on the overhead sky chairs at the LA County Fair (or whatever they are called - the thing you sit on to ride from one side of the Fair to the other).

But count me in on line 2. I would probably be frightened, but I would do it anyways.

[BarTopDancer]

Originally Posted by Kevy Baby

I can handle the high stuff, but I am surprisingly uneasy on the overhead sky chairs at the LA County Fair (or whatever they are called - the thing you sit on to ride from one side of the Fair to the other).

I don't like ski lifts. Which is what those remind me of. The last time I was on one for the Alpine Slides in Big Bear I was a kid. It was windy and I was alone. And very unhappy.