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Post by Stormwatcher on Jul 9, 2017 22:52:46 GMT
:Catches breath: Ok, let me respond a little... Gracious sakes, Alaina, you have my total sympathy! I never had it quite that bad, but when People's- remember old People's Drug?- got bought up by CVS, we had quite a bit of similar 'restructuring' go down, including the perception that 3 employees can OF COURSE do the job that 8 employees previously did, just as well and in half the time. HAH! Your company is lucky to have someone as dedicated as you are!
Rokia, I'm the opposite: I love bridges, but I freak out in tunnels.
Purple, good luck! Definitely better to get away from people like that if you can.
Laurie, I'm heading for vacation too- down to South Car'lina for a beach wedding. Just gotta get through this week. Fortunately now that the 4th's over we're done with heavy-duty busy until Back to School begins...though you wouldn't know it by the gargantuan sale they foisted on us this week... I will miss my kitties, but getting to stay in a big luxurious beach-house for five days *on someone else's dime* is not to be passed up.
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Post by Rokia on Jul 10, 2017 3:03:43 GMT
We ARE opposite Storm - I like tunnels! That may go back to my time as a child on trips (otherwise known as moving) -- one of my older sister told us to hold our breath, close our eyes and put both hands on the roof of the car as you go through - and make a wish... so that's what I think of when I get into a tunnel.  (considering Ketchikan, AK has a tunnel you HAVE to go through - one way at least -- to get from one side of town to another side -- I went through a lot of tunnels... |
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Post by Stormwatcher on Jul 10, 2017 3:53:38 GMT
I seem to remember not minding tunnels as a kid...until we went through one that had men inside working on something and I got to thinking about the whole 'things that can collapse on you' perspective. Ever since I get really antsy in any small enclosed place; visiting the Hoover Dam, years back, was one of the less sensible and more defiant things I ever did. But bridges and heights in general are grand. I'm careful of them, I have respect for the danger that potentially could result from carelessness or accidents, but I really enjoy them. I've always been good with airplanes, too; I think I may've been a bird in a former life!  Speaking of things that are up, I just discovered that we're due for some very elevated temperatures this week- 92, 97, 98, 98, and a mere brisk 90 come Friday. : p |
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Post by Rokia on Jul 12, 2017 2:56:48 GMT
I have no problems at all with heights . (I love standing at the top of the Sears Tower and looking down on the street below -- and when I was in the Hancock Tower I went to the outside part of the observation floor (loud and WINDY). That was seriously cool - and cold... |
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Post by Stormwatcher on Jul 13, 2017 0:36:11 GMT
Ooo, I just remembered the first time my Granddad took my sister and I up into the Sears tower. Yes, that was very cool! That's the first significant height I can remember, so it was probably the formative one. The Seattle Space Needle was great too, with floor-to-ceiling windows... Wish I could get back to the Grand Canyon and do that 'walk into space' platform thingy that's now there. Only thing I ever balked at was taking the roller coaster ride at the top of NY NY in Vegas. And that's just because roller coasters and I don't get along. |
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Post by alaina on Jul 13, 2017 0:42:24 GMT
Rokia - yes, we did change leadership a few years back. The new CEO has a different mindset. Every year on the company's anniversary, the CEO gives a speech. The prior CEOs were all pretty awesome, very company oriented, very aware it's the employees that make the company great, not him. This new one, when he gave his first anniversary speech it was littered with "I", "I", "Me", "Me", "I"... I think that pretty much says it all. I'm not a huge fan of bridges but I'm terrified of tunnels. I think it started when I was in grade school and they were building the Chesapeake Bay Bridge Tunnel. During tunnel construction a barge hit a piece of the tunnel and knocked it out of place. I remember thinking "What if that happens when there are cars in the tunnel?!"  I've been scared of tunnels that go underwater every since. Only underwater tunnels though. I've been in tunnels through the mountains in the Poconos and they didn't bother me at all. |
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Post by Robina on Jul 13, 2017 3:23:23 GMT
I'm slightly bridgephobic and I don't mind shorter tunnels - my husband tried to convince me we should take the train through the Chunnel and spend a couple of days in Paris last time we went to England. I suspect I'll lose that argument next time we're there.
We went camping in western Saskatchewan with a couple of friend on the July long weekend, we took their camper which was great. A couple of weeks before that, we went camping near Kakabeka Falls with our canvas pavilion and it pounded down rain while we were there, I hate packing wet canvas. We set it up in my brother-in-law's back yard to dry after we got home and it rained every day for the next week.
I HATE driving through Chicago. We do it every two years on our way to the Pennsic War and it never gets better. Two trips ago we got an I-pass and that's made the tolls much easier to deal with.
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Post by cheryl on Jul 13, 2017 20:16:59 GMT
Oh geez. Yeah, I'm no fan of tunnels at all. I tolerate bridges, but just barely. As I have gotten older, my claustrophobia has set in badly, and do don't do well with heights (hence the bridge and tunnel thing!). Ah, the joys of ageing!
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Post by Stormwatcher on Jul 14, 2017 1:33:56 GMT
It has seemed to get more noticeable as I get older; I never had that much trouble with the tunnel in PA en route to the grandfolks, in my teens and 20s, but when I was at the Hoover dam, and later in the tunnel to Brice Canyon, I really felt it. Haven't been through any tunnels at all lately, which is probably just as well!
The real fun bit about going to see the Chicago folks was that we always, ALWAYS arrived in Illinois in the late afternoon and inevitably hit Chicago in time for 5 pm rush hour. And it was late July to early August, so searing hot. : p
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Post by Rokia on Jul 14, 2017 2:09:52 GMT
I should mention - I don't like tunnels that GO UNDER WATER. I went through one of those on a bus going into New York City (Manhattan maybe? Not sure where the Greyhound Bus Station I was at was located). Tunnels that go under water brings about the same phobia I have of bridges. (The idea of going through the Channel Tunnel from England to France just gives me the heebie-jeebies!)
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(considering Ketchikan, AK has a tunnel you HAVE to go through - one way at least -- to get from one side of town to another side -- I went through a lot of tunnels... 
I've been scared of tunnels that go underwater every since. Only underwater tunnels though. I've been in tunnels through the mountains in the Poconos and they didn't bother me at all.
