Whatever you do... don't look down!

The other day I was working on the house down the road. I don't mind ladders, in fact, I kinda like them... you know, those folding ones that you can sit on the top even thouigh they have the picture of a stick man sitting on the top and there's the red circle cross thing suggesting "Don't do what Donnie Dont does" (old Simpsons reference). But when it comes to a foot wide aluminum platform spanning across the greatroom of the house, I don't feel as secure. In fact, I take walking on it very slow. If that beam was only a mere 4 or 5 feet above the ground, it wouldn't be so bad. But it's 12 feet up. And the funny thing is, if you look down, you freak yourself out! Isn't that funny?

I wonder if I have a fear of heights, or a fear of falling. Maybe the height induces the psychological reaction of, "Oh, if I fall, this is going to suck." But if I'm on a boat, I don't have a fear of falling into the bottom of the lake. Weird huh?

What sort of things freak you out? Is it logical?

The following is a list of other things that I despise:
Fingernails (and the scraping thereof onto fabric)
Toenails (same classification)
A Paintbrush rubbing alongside painter's tape on doors or window frames

That's about it for now.

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