What is the SCARIEST thing you heard someone say?

[Snoggera]

Not the national creeps that want you to think about fear all the time.

On a personal level.

Scariest words?

[AlCzervik]

1. I was getting a pap smear a couple of years back

and while it wass being done the nurse looks at what the Doctor and says..."What are YOU doing!!??"

[Moonbeam_Starlight]

2. The boss:

"I need to see you in my office."

The doctor: "Precancerous, we're going to have to wait on the results. Might have to freeze it off."

[Piperay]

3. Doctor told

my mother that her cancer had come back :scared: a year and a half later she died. :cry:

[flamingyouth]

4. Would you like your husband's clothes he died in?

Or shall we cremate them with him? :cry:

[Mara Steele]

11. Oh Lisa!!

:hug:

I'm so sorry!!

:cry:

[flamingyouth]

55. It's actually the law - they have to ask

And what a bizarre law it is, indeed. Technically, it is property, so the survivor has to decide what he or she wants to do with it. :scared:

[Rhiannon12866]

62. That is really bizarre! I had no idea...

When my Dad died, and after the wake, they returned his jewelry, his wedding ring and a diamond that he had always worn on his right hand. It seemed so strange to see this, sans Dad, since he had never removed his rings in my lifetime. A couple of days after the funeral I was suddenly struck by a thought that made me suddenly sit up in bed. He was still wearing his St. Christopher's medal. They must not have noticed this. My father traveled all over the world and averted some near-miss situations. I thought of this and thought that it was a good thing that he had kept this. I hoped that it would continue to keep him safe on his final journey.;(

[Rhiannon12866]

28. Me, too! WOW!

I thought that people trained in that line of work were given sensitivity training, or something! I am so sorry!:hug:

[vetwife]

46. Lisa, I am so sorry....That is terrible

[rasputin1952]

50. Oh Dear Lord...

:cry:....:hug:

[EstimatedProphet]

5. I was in a Missionary Baptist church in the MO Ozarks back in the 70's

and there was an old nutjob that actually complained, IN CHURCH, that he wasn't allowed to bomb people's houses.

[Snoggera]

6. Oh man

I truly feel for all those who experience scary things. I am so concerned, and worried.

I tend to be an absorber.

[pocket]

7. "If it wasn't for my horse..."

"I never would have spent that year at college."

[NJCher]

8. I used to work with this Cuban-American

He was so much fun and we laughed our heads off while we worked.
We did good work together, too. Produced lots of interesting, creative things.

Remember when Ari Fleischer said we'd better watch what we say? Well, I brought this up and expressed horror. My co-worker said, "You can't just let people say whatever they want!! That could lead to trouble!!"

I thought he was kidding but he wasn't. He absolutely meant it.


Cher

[bluestateguy]

73. I know how he can be taught that he is a fool

"You can't just let people say whatever they want!! That could lead to trouble!!"

I couldn't agree more. Let's see what he thinks when the government starts to use the FBI to infiltrate anti-abortion groups, subjects the Christian Coalition to IRS audits and begins tapping the phones and computers of the Heritage Foundation.

Your Cuban co-worker will recognize that kind of stuff from the old country.

[Lovecrafty]

9. "That deficits are good for starving out the Democrats base..."

I was talking to a Conservative "Christian" once at college and he explained that creating huge deficits was a GOOD thing because it means the government then is FORCED to reduce spending on social programs...which ultimately hurts the Democratic Base!!! He then went on to describe that greed was good and it is a survival of the fittest world in America! AMAZING coming from the same guy who a few weeks later would denounce Darwin and present a totally theocratic view of our government in class! Compassionate conservatism in action!!!

I believe his attitude and comments, although very scary, are typical of your average Right-Wingnut...

I did manage to argue back quite effectively. I said that the ONLY reason why conservatives emphasize military spending over social spending is that they ALREADY HAVE THE WEALTH...all they want is for us poor kids to go out and help protect that wealth for them..and in the case of Iraq, EXPAND that wealth! I also quoted a few passages from the Bible and mentioned that socialism is a CHRISTIAN CONCEPT! My proof? Right here!

"All the believers were together and had everything in common. Selling their possessions and goods, they gave to anyone as he had need." (Acts 2:44-45).

"All the believers were one in heart and mind. No one claimed that any of his possessions was his own, but they shared everything they had… There were no needy persons among them. For from time to time those who owned lands or houses sold them, brought the money from the sales and put it at the apostles' feet, and it was distributed to anyone as he had need." (Acts 4:32,34,35)


Shortly thereafter he simply quit arguing and walked away...

But his disregard for humanity still spooks me to this day.

[GoddessOfGuinness]

19. Welcome to DU!

:beer:

That would've been creepy!

[Rhiannon12866]

31. That is a scary story, Lovecrafty!

But it sure is a mighty impressive first post! Welcome to DU! Glad to have you with us! You've already added quite a bit to the discussion!:toast:

[dolo amber]

10. "Will you marry me?"

:scared:

[Snoggera]

13. Yes.

yes

[Lizzie Borden]

12. Relax and breathe with the machine,

you can't breathe by yourself now. It certainly didn't calm me down any.

[Mizmoon]

14. "If people can't work they should just die."

This from a kid who was trying to get into med school.

[nini]

16. GOOD GOD

I wouldn't want that guy being my doctor!!!

[nini]

15. You may not walk again..

showed them :-)

though it hurts like hell a lot. I offer the pain up to Jesus (LOL that's throw back to my Catholic school days!)

[Wheelie_Alex]

17. "Grenade! Grenade!"

Luckily one of my brother Rangers kicked it out of the back of the truck.

[Pegleg Thd]

21. "She's gonna BLOW"

was yelled out by a state trooper as my partner and I were trying to get the driver out of his wrecked truck. This was about 40 years ago. Yep! we got him out--- she blew !!:nuke:

[RUSTY SHACKLEFORD]

18. Over the emergency announcing system on my submarine...

"FLOODING IN THE MISSILE COMPARTMENT!!"

[Wheelie_Alex]

20. Now that would scare me!

As a Ranger, we always had the option to jump out of anything. Planes, Helicopters, Trucks (several did on that Grenade! Grenade! incident). But being stuck in a craft where I KNEW there was no way out...Way too scarey!

[RUSTY SHACKLEFORD]

22. Just the opposite for me.

I'm trained to fight a flooding casualty. You run towards the location and cover the leak.

Don't think that would work with a grenade.

[marigold20]

23. "Come on little guy -don't scare your mom -breathe!"

He did - he was three and a half weeks late and I guess he decided to delay his breathing too.

[Mrs_Beastman]

24. "We are in the 'people planning' process of this merger".......

can you say 'outsourcing'?

[Mrs_Beastman]

25. You got a certified letter from the IRS

:puke:

[Mizmoon]

26. "The cops called. They want you to call them back."

I was in big trouble, too. Well, big trouble by my standards.

Just remembered that one.

[OneBlueSky]

27. "I, George W. Bush, do solemnly swear . . ." n/t

.

[WillyT]

30. LOL, First Thing That Came To My Mind Too !!!

:bounce::hi::bounce:

[Ladyhawk]

29. Self Deleted

[Rhiannon12866]

32. "I'm voting for George Bush* in November."

After all the damage he's done and the crap he has pulled, the fact that someone could STILL say this, just makes my blood run cold!
:scared::scared::scared::scared::scared::scared::scared:

[Reverend_Smitty]

33. I've heard people in my own family say that...

and obviously there is nothing that I can say to convince them otherwise

[Rhiannon12866]

43. My family, too. In fact, most of them,

but it's my mother who is the rabid one. It's not just that she won't listen, but just starts yelling so loudly that she couldn't hear me, even if she wanted to. There's no way to reach a closed mind. She has even gone so far as to say that my late father would be "ashamed" of me. It is so easy now for her to put words in his mouth. My father may have been a Republican, but he was neither stupid, nor insane. I know that we could have discussed this amicably. My grandmother, his mother, who even voted against FDR, came around. She called me and told me that she voted for Bill Clinton. I told her that I had, as well, but there was no need to tell the others, LOL!:D

[catzies]

34. "You're pregnant."

n/t

[rockymountaindem]

35. "Well, if your *are* Jewish, you should die!"

Someone told me that when I was a freshman in high school and he overheard a religious discussion between me and one of my Christian friends. I guess he figured out I was Jewish, so he asked me, and my friend told him "it's none of your buisness". That ass replied with "Well, if you *are* Jewish, you should die!", and that was the end of the exchange.

I was pretty freaked out, but I never saw that guy again.

Someone else gave me the Nazi salute one time too (he thought it was funny). He's in the Air Force Academy now.

[onebigbadwulf]

36. "Democrats just tax the poor, republicans look out for us"

AAAAAAAAH! (screams)

[Kat45]

37. There's something on your MRI that might be a (brain) aneurysm.

You said your vacation is in a week. Go and enjoy your vacation and we'll take another MRI after you get back. :scared:

Wasn't easy to enjoy my vacation that year. When I had the follow-up MRI, the "something" wasn't there. No aneurysm, thank God.

[WilliamPitt]

38. "I support the President on Iraq." "Why?" "September 11th."

Conversation between me and my roommate's mom a few months ago.

[Rhiannon12866]

44. I also lose it when people say this

But it's not unexpected. Bush* made a very clear connection between these two events, every chance he got, in his march to war. He just began, in one of his rare press conferences, to refer to 9/11 and Iraq in the same sentence. He got away with it, thanks to our unquestioning "liberal" media, so he actually began linking the two. And many Americans still believe this. This scares me, as well.
:scared:

[JohnKleeb]

48. Yeah rhi, totally

hey what up.

[Rhiannon12866]

57. I am, LOL!

You have to know that this is the third computer that I have used, today, to access DU. Am I insane, or what?:crazy:

[DemWitch]

39. From my Doc...

I got your X-ray back, and I found a spot on your lung.

Thankfully it was calcification of scar tissue from an infection I had, but I had to wait for two weeks to find that info out.

[Rhiannon12866]

61. I am so sorry! What a nightmare for you!

The waiting must have been interminable!:-(

[SoCalDem]

40. "Your baby has a serious anomaly, and we're not sure what to do"

words that changed our lives...

[JohnKleeb]

41. Kleeb youre a metro

that was pretty scary heh, nah thats not the scariest.
Probably, "Alan Keyes would make a good president"

[Guy Fawkes]

42. "Are you bleeding badly?"

Woman was pointing at my right hand after I broke the 5th metacarpal. The flesh over my knuckle was gone and I was pouring blood. ("Nah, I spilled my McDonald's, it just looks like a piece of bone!" "Here's your sign!")

[Fuzz]

45. The scariest thing my dad heard from me was . .

Dad, I think I'm a heterosexual trapped in a man's body.

He stopped breathing for like 10 seconds until it sunk in. :)

[AwakeAtLast]

47. I'm probably getting deployed when I get back

Said by my husband tonight. He is in training for the National Guard right now and is due back in early September. He thinks he will have orders waiting on him when he comes home. :cry:

[LastKnight]

49. "i didnt vote in the last election..."

from a few different people, one of them being a florida democrat.

another being from the hard right republican at work that keeps bitching his ass off about stephanie herseth, tim johnson and tom daschle when he never votes against them. he either needs to vote or shut the fuck up, dont vote, dont have the right to complain. but i must admit i do enjoy debating him, though, he is so easy to bait and switch and then nail to the ground. and then he feels foolish for a few days cause he (a college grad, and by no means a dumb man) gets shown up by this straight outta highschool kid in front of customers (i know, we shouldnt do it in front of customers)

-LK

[Valerie5555]

51. How about screw politics and voting for it won't make a difference anyways

:D

[LastKnight]

53. a friend of mine actuially said "i may just not end up voting again"

she said this full well knowing about... they way i am with this stuff. shes apolitical and gets tired of me and my soapbox. but i think i swayed her to blue, but i donno if she will even bother to go voice it.

-LK

[vetwife]

52. Take your pick and I swear they are all true

1. My own voice back in 72 ..to the police...my 2 year old is missing..he was kidnapped by a neighbor

2. You do have Cancer. (But they got it all in a hysterectomy)

3. tell me what you know ( Working as a POlice dispatcher when the FBI threw a M-16 to my head in a drug raid and found out later it was a CIA outpost and the police chief was reportedly set up by the HW Bush bunch for drug running during the Columbia deal with capturing Noreaga.) In Florida ..Governor Martinez..I gave that story to Greg Palast..hadn't heard anything on it..1980's.

4. I am going to kill you ( attacked by a stranger in Nashville)

5. Working as a Property Manager in Gainesville Florida..The police
tell me...We think the Killer may be living here. ( The Gainesville Murders)

There are other scary words but those are the top 5 !

[LastKnight]

54. you win. i give up lol. nt

[SoCalDem]

56. How weird.. Two of yours are mine too..

"No Shit Lady, I'm gonna shoot you".. as I was held up at gunpoint..
(I picked him out of a line up and he did 7-12 yrs)


and

when I called the police toi tell them..



"My 2 yr old and 3 yr old are missing from the back yard"..

(they turned up after 3 1/2 hours wandering around on the mesa, in weeds taller than they were.. 20 miles of NOTHING til the mountains..
They went to "see the cows".. (and the rattle snakes, wolves & coyotes :scared:..)

[vetwife]

58. That is wierd....and people wonder why we are not afraid of

TERRA TERRA TERRA orange or yellow?

[oxymoron]

59. "Leave the area or we start killing hostages"

My best friend and I were in a McDonald's in Portland, OR in the late '70's. Two masked gunmen entered both side doors, and forced all of the patrons (about 12 of us) into the cooler. We were in there for about 20 minutes. They then pulled us out of the cooler, opened the outside back door, and forced me to stand in in the doorway with a gun to my head. They yelled the above line to the cops, that were crouching, guns drawn, outside the back door. One of the gunmen said that he "didn't want to kill anybody" and they eventually gave themselves up without a shot fired. We later learned that they were 18-20 years old and were eventually sentenced to about 10 years in prison.

My friend was a truly brilliant woman, who is now an agoraphobic. I have always wondered if this incident had anything to do with her illness.

[Valerie5555]

60. Here is one thing I read that "freaked me out" or something about how the

U.S is "a terrorist attack away from martial law," or at least " a terrorist attack INVOLVING WMD'S away from martial law."

[jdonaldball]

63. "What is your ideal of a wife?"

[Chomskyite]

64. A few student papers have been frightening

I read a paper recently in which a student said the torture at Abu Ghraib was justified because the torturers MIGHT have gotten some information that saved Americans.

A few others have compared gays to serial killers.

I teach in the South, needless to say.

[Mara Steele]

66. YIKES!!

You have my sincere sympathies. :scared:

[bluestateguy]

72. Student papers, eh?

I got one as a TA four years ago that said, "blacks are for Gore because he's for more welfare."

[Chomskyite]

65. Also

"My period is a little late . . ."

But that wasn't in a student paper.

[trof]

67. "I'm late."

period
But eventually she wasn't.
whew

[Commie Pinko Dirtbag]

68. Brace yourselves. This is going to be heavy. Think twice before reading.

Two guys sitting on a park bench, chatting. I was sitting on the same bench, looking after Gabriela who was playing in the seesaw, swing etc. By their uniforms they were probably drugstore clerks . It was around lunchtime. One of them was talking about an acquaintance of his who was a policeman. He went on like this:

"He says criminals are like lace -- you gotta kill them whilke they're still larvae".

He then went into specifics, like the time the cop open the car trunk to proudly show two gagged and cuffed kids inside, how he and his cohorts like to beat them up silly before shooting, how sometimes he loses pitbulls on them just for fun.

The guy hearing pointed to some 8-9yo kids playing in the park, asking "about that age?" and the other said, "yup". The scariest thing was the lack of indignation of their part.

I left the place shaking. Gabriela asked, "Daddy, are you cold? It isn't cold."

[wickerwoman]

69. "Are you comfortable with the orange juice?"

Asked by a very sweet and solicitous Indian waiter who also wanted to know if I was comfortable with the chicken (this was back during the bird flu scare).

I think the only thing I ate in the restaurant was bread. He got a big tip though.

[Submariner]

70. While I was testifying as an eyewitness to an attempted murder

by the husband against the wife with a shotgun, the brother of the accused, sitting behind the accused, mouthed the words as he stared at me, "I am going to fucking kill you!"

After his brother was found guilty and got 20+ years in Angola tha day, I went out and bought my first handgun and started sleeping with a 44 magnum.

[bluestateguy]

71. "If there's a draft, YOU'LL SERVE"

Um, no I won't. But I was threatened by some manly, military type about a year ago when I commented on the draft.