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Posted: 3/18/2019 9:57:02 PM EDT

Because i am.

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Posted: 3/18/2019 9:58:56 PM EDT

[#1]

yes

Posted: 3/18/2019 10:00:21 PM EDT

[#2]

Yes. Oddly enough though I don't have a problem with flying.

Posted: 3/18/2019 10:01:42 PM EDT

[#3]

Not really. That doesn't mean I am the person to walk I-beams all day on a high rise.

Posted: 3/18/2019 10:01:46 PM EDT

[#4]

No. Skydiving tends to cure that.

Posted: 3/18/2019 10:02:41 PM EDT

[#5]

Absolutely.

Posted: 3/18/2019 10:02:47 PM EDT

[#6]

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I’m not a fan of heights, but still jump to kind of keep it in check.

Posted: 3/18/2019 10:02:59 PM EDT

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I don't either but get up on one of these buildings and walk right up to the window... Nope

Posted: 3/18/2019 10:03:03 PM EDT

[#8]

I shake on a ladder few feet off the ground.

Posted: 3/18/2019 10:03:27 PM EDT

[#9]

I wasn’t afraid until my mid-20’s. Had a little tree stand debacle and I’m in terrified 5’ up a ladder.

Posted: 3/18/2019 10:04:48 PM EDT

[#10]

Not heights, but being in tall buildings freaks me out.

Posted: 3/18/2019 10:05:02 PM EDT

[#11]

More afraid of falls.

Posted: 3/18/2019 10:05:33 PM EDT

[#12]

Hell yes. If God had wanted my dumb ass up in the air he would have put wings on me. Cleaning gutters and putting a roof on a 4/12 roof is about my limit.

Posted: 3/18/2019 10:06:14 PM EDT

[#13]

No. I kind of enjoy heights.

But I am afraid of falling.

Posted: 3/18/2019 10:09:36 PM EDT

[#14]

Not sure what other people mean by "afraid". When I approach the edge of a flat roof, or walk up to a full floor-to-ceiling window in a high rise building, I feel like I start to lose my balance and will fall over. It's not the height itself that bothers me, just that I think I'm starting to fall. Same when walking near the edge of a steep cliff.

Posted: 3/18/2019 10:13:44 PM EDT

[#15]

No, but falling scares the shit out of me

Posted: 3/18/2019 10:13:46 PM EDT

[#16]

Afraid of heights? No. Respectful? Yes.

Posted: 3/18/2019 10:14:10 PM EDT

[#17]

Yes

Posted: 3/18/2019 10:14:32 PM EDT

[#18]

Yea god damn it and I hate it.

Used to not be.

Posted: 3/18/2019 10:15:30 PM EDT

[#19]

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Me either, very weird! I can't go higher than 6 ft on a ladder but flying doesn't bother me.

Posted: 3/18/2019 10:15:59 PM EDT

[#20]

I've overcome my fear of heights. It's the people on the ground shooting at you that makes parachuting a bit unnerving.

Posted: 3/18/2019 10:16:34 PM EDT

[#21]

Nope.

I've worked 40 feet up doing ship construction, no safety lines, no nothing.

May not sound like a lot, but it's more than adequate to kill you quite thoroughly.

However, that was a long time ago, when I was young, fearless and stupid as a rock...now I'm old and wondering how in the HELL I ever managed to get that way.

Posted: 3/18/2019 10:17:00 PM EDT

[#22]

nope!

Posted: 3/18/2019 10:17:42 PM EDT

[#23]

Yep.
Still go up a ladder or on a roof from time to time. I try to avoid it whenever possible

Posted: 3/18/2019 10:18:39 PM EDT

[#24]

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Exactly this. I hate heights from a fixed structure, but I always want the window seat on a plane.

Posted: 3/18/2019 10:19:50 PM EDT

[#25]

Yes.

Posted: 3/18/2019 10:20:13 PM EDT

[#26]

The older i get, the less I like heights. I used to frame homes, and would regularly walk 2nd story plates that weren't kicked off with no issues... now, I won't even work 1st story plates with out a ladder.

Posted: 3/18/2019 10:21:56 PM EDT

[#27]

Not really

Posted: 3/18/2019 10:24:06 PM EDT

[#28]

Yes. I'm uncomfortable with high exposure. It can be overcome. I summited my 20th peak last summer.

Posted: 3/18/2019 10:25:56 PM EDT

[#29]

Don’t work in a refinery. Those big columns swing and sway when you climb them, which makes it worse. If it doesn’t bother you, you can move up the chain and not have to deal with it, but you’ll do lots of climbing to get there.

Posted: 3/18/2019 10:26:39 PM EDT

[#30]

This, all day I’m ok..

This, not a fucking chance. Walking around, My legs would be shaking like Elvis.

Posted: 3/18/2019 10:27:30 PM EDT

[#31]

Naw. Love it

Posted: 3/18/2019 10:27:30 PM EDT

[#32]

Not all all.

Posted: 3/18/2019 10:29:58 PM EDT

[#33]

Nope.

Riding on mountain roads with steep drops freaks me out. Talk about hugging the high side.

Posted: 3/18/2019 10:31:42 PM EDT

[#34]

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I am the same way. I don`t like things I can fall off of, like cliffs or towers. but I love to fly, the best flying ever was in an open biplane. had my head hanging out like a dog in a truck.

Posted: 3/18/2019 10:32:07 PM EDT

[#35]

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nope!
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What are you doing to that cable?

Posted: 3/18/2019 10:32:14 PM EDT

[#36]

Walking across the glass floor on the Shanghai Eye, my hands were nearly dripping with sweat.

Little kids were stomping on the glass floor for fun, I have no idea how people aren't afraid of that shit.

Posted: 3/18/2019 10:34:52 PM EDT

[#37]

Yessireebob...

I also get the heeby jeebies standing on the ground looking straight up at tall buildings. I feel like I am going to fall over.

Posted: 3/18/2019 10:35:10 PM EDT

[#38]

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This, all day I’m ok..

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This, not a fucking chance. Walking around, My legs would be shaking like Elvis.

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This.

Depends how high. I can plod around on the roof of my 2 story house just fine, but the observation deck of the Sears tower had me damn near paralyzed last summer. You can feel the damn thing move and shift with the wind loads.

I hate flying, but looking down at 30K feet doesn't bother me.

Posted: 3/18/2019 10:35:53 PM EDT

[#39]

Conditionally. Tall buildings or gantries and stuff? Yes. Planes? Nope.

Posted: 3/18/2019 10:36:04 PM EDT

[#40]

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nope!
https://i.imgur.com/mAwm3rT.jpg

What are you doing to that cable?

taking off dampers and prepping it to be pulled out and replaced. 50 years of salt water does wonders to the steel core

Posted: 3/18/2019 10:36:05 PM EDT

[#41]

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Yes. Oddly enough though I don't have a problem with flying.

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Same here. Some heights bother me (most) some I can deal with and a few lime flying does not bother me at all

Posted: 3/18/2019 10:36:31 PM EDT

[#42]

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nope!
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Big fucking hairy balls.

You haz them.

Posted: 3/18/2019 10:38:00 PM EDT

[#43]

I don't think I've ever met anyone who wasn't.

Posted: 3/18/2019 10:38:33 PM EDT

[#44]

It’s been a while, but I’ve done some tower work.

So, no. Not really.

Posted: 3/18/2019 10:42:34 PM EDT

[#45]

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Not sure what other people mean by "afraid". When I approach the edge of a flat roof, or walk up to a full floor-to-ceiling window in a high rise building, I feel like I start to lose my balance and will fall over. It's not the height itself that bothers me, just that I think I'm starting to fall. Same when walking near the edge of a steep cliff.

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Sounds like vertigo

Posted: 3/18/2019 10:43:37 PM EDT

[#46]

Those climbing vids on YouTube of antennas, cranes, chimneys, etc make me feel really uncomfortable

Posted: 3/18/2019 10:46:01 PM EDT

[#47]

No.

But sometimes I get a tingle in my pingle!

Posted: 3/18/2019 10:46:07 PM EDT

[#48]

Nope

Volunteered on a tall ship for a few years.

One hand for you, one for the ship...

Never had a problem. Loved it, actually. It was like an adult jungle gym.

Posted: 3/18/2019 10:48:54 PM EDT

[#49]

On a ladder or on my roof - yeah.
But in my airplane I feel totally at ease all the way to the highest I have flown it (17,500 ft).

Posted: 3/18/2019 10:49:47 PM EDT

[#50]

spent my teenage summers as a laborer for my dad's steel setting company, spent about 11years as a journeyman ironworker......so no, I have a healthy respect, but no fear.

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