Just an odd observation
Oct. 26th, 2005 10:26 am![[personal profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/silk/identity/user.png){kind=small}
sestreeQuite a few on my friends list are doing the 2 things meme. Anyway I have noticed a few have 'drowning' as a fear.
Out of all the fears I have heard mentioned casually over the years that isn't one. There's heights, fallilng, plane crashes, buried alive (personal favorite of my family), accidental murder (another familial favorite - we're disturbed), ghosts, etc but that's one I just had never associated with a mentionable fear.
Maybe it's regional? hmmm. Shouldn't be. In Kansas and Oklahoma we swam in rivers (not the Arkansas River because it's just too treacherous) and ponds and lakes without benefit of lifeguards. Often times as teenagers copious amounts of alcohol were involved. Two or three of us in my highschool group pulled people out of the water who decided to go swimming but were too drunk to remember how, or too drunk to be coordinated enough to swim.
Anyway, we didn't lose anyone in the graduating years of 1973 to 1983 (that I am aware of) to drowning - inebriated or not. We did lose 12 during those 10 years to drunk driving.
Just rambling on about the differences in areas of the country. You'll notice I put "drunk drivers" down as a fear. I guess it's all where you live.
Out of all the fears I have heard mentioned casually over the years that isn't one. There's heights, fallilng, plane crashes, buried alive (personal favorite of my family), accidental murder (another familial favorite - we're disturbed), ghosts, etc but that's one I just had never associated with a mentionable fear.
Maybe it's regional? hmmm. Shouldn't be. In Kansas and Oklahoma we swam in rivers (not the Arkansas River because it's just too treacherous) and ponds and lakes without benefit of lifeguards. Often times as teenagers copious amounts of alcohol were involved. Two or three of us in my highschool group pulled people out of the water who decided to go swimming but were too drunk to remember how, or too drunk to be coordinated enough to swim.
Anyway, we didn't lose anyone in the graduating years of 1973 to 1983 (that I am aware of) to drowning - inebriated or not. We did lose 12 during those 10 years to drunk driving.
Just rambling on about the differences in areas of the country. You'll notice I put "drunk drivers" down as a fear. I guess it's all where you live.
