What.

[TWR]

Has been your most frighening experience?

[AlwaysConfused]

Being knocked off my bike by joyriders and laying in the middle of the road head on with cars racing towards me. Managed to roll to the side of the road before passing out.

Armed robbery with a gun at my head. Managed to keep and follow procedures, but am still very jumpy when people think it is amusing to try and startle me

[AlwaysConfused]

*keep calm* oops - missed a word out there

[paddywak]

The slit second when I realised I was going to be hit by the haulage chain and the pain until they got some morphine into me.

[Brinjal]

Being robbed at gunpoint in my home and hearing my husband being beaten in the next room.

[AlwaysConfused]

Bloody hell Brinjal. How long did it take you to feel safe in your own home again? Or have you never felt safe since?

[Peter Pedant]

oh Hahahaha Prudie
a plane I was on in Phnom Penh landed wonky
like you know sort of side on

and I er 'said' involuntarily, oh no ! this is awful !
as the pilot sort of tried to get it to land in a straight line

so after we landed I apologized to the plane full of Chinese and one said
Oh we all felt like that, it is just we didnt say it.

[DTCwordfan]

Being down under a glacier with the ice creaking behind you, threatening to close off the tunnel.....that was almost a superb brown adrenaline moment.

[DTCwordfan]

There were a few flying moments and one or two with mountain death crew as we called it in the Lakes (and Scotland).

[Brinjal]

We now have electric fence security screens on front and back doors which are always locked at all times sleep with the bedroom door locked and have a browning 7mm under the pillow.

[naomi24]

Waiting a whole day for news of my husband and family, working in the City of London, on 7/7. Without doubt the worst day of my life.

[silliemillie]

I was at work in the City during the 7/7 bombings, very scary.

But scarier was breaking my leg & waiting for 7 days for them to fix it as they wanted to do scans first as they thought I had Cancer (I did). Most horrible few weeks of my life.

[naomi24]

millie, I would have coped better if I had been there. It was the long hours of not knowing .........

[doctordb]

Being blinded for half a day through shock. I was terrified I wouldn't see again and I kept trying to remember the faces of loved ones.

[DaisyNonna]

Telling a professor of history that I would not be taking his course because he was so rude.
Having realised I had experienced a stroke was not that frightening.

[Baldric]

Peter @ 18:36, I must have missed that, I don't normally ignore people who ask me something.
Sloopy @ 18:44, I most certainly did, I must have been 20-25mtrs away, not far enough in the case of bagpipes (apologies to James if he reads this) but very moving.

[Answerprancer]

I have two:
1) When the plane I was on from Doha (Qatar) to Heathrow diverted to Damascus amid a load of screaming and running up and down the aisles.
I thought we were all going to die in a rain of machine gun fire - turned out to be a nutter from Catalonia who had announced that there was a bomb on the aircraft.
2) Staying awake all night nursing an automatic rifle after my friend in the US had his house broken into by crack heads.

[Caran]

Trying to get into the loft when the ladder decided to move, I hung for a split second and fell onto the fallen ladder, bruised ribs, torn shoulder. Never going there again.

[Spoonboy]

Having to face all the bad things that happened to me in my childhood, and trying to make sense of it all. And though it is a chapter in my life I have managed to close, I will never make sense of it.

[Brinjal]

Second most frightening would be living through the Christchurch earthquake