Originally Posted by Salty Dog (Post 2199426)

That the economy will continue to tank along with my investments/retirement funds...

Originally Posted by paminix (Post 2199442)

Stairs with no backs, as in bleachers, ladders, etc. I feel like I am going to fall through.

Originally Posted by Dmossien (Post 2199511)

I am scared to death of heights after four near death events. I can’t go higher than three steps on a step ladder much less change the bulbs in our ceiling fan above the bed.

Originally Posted by Nucky (Post 2199589)

I really didn’t want to say this straight out in my initial post but many of the people in the hot tub were counting the time soaking as a bath.

The hot tub removes dead skin and other chromosomes that I don’t want to share with anyone. The volume of people in that tub was big. Not for me or many who owned a hot tub at their home Gross!!!!

Originally Posted by New Englander (Post 2199640)

What prey tell is wrong with the Dutch?

Originally Posted by CFrance (Post 2199148)

Closed-minded people.

Originally Posted by jimjamuser (Post 2199714)

I have been hit by lightning - twice. Caught in a rope underwater at 30 ft. And ended up upside down on a moving motorcycle to avoid a direct hit by a car. ......And I would be glad to do those same activities again, no problem.

Originally Posted by Cybersprings (Post 2199721)

Doesn't apply to everyone but I usually find that people referring to closed-minded people are referring to people who disagree with them no matter how many times they they are told they are wrong and explained to that they are wrong, and may even try to convince you of the error of YOUR ways.

Originally Posted by Fullbird (Post 2199193)

Bath water? Try a toilet!!! During our Lifestyle stay, our agent took us to Rec pool, it was empty. I looked on the stairs going into the pool and there were 3 TURDS! Guess the depends get loose when wet. There is a silver lining though, they were solid.

Originally Posted by Boomer (Post 2199662)

Nucky, I completely understand. But I certainly would not categorize it as a phobia. It just makes good sense to me.

I don’t know how it was in other places in the country, but in my part of the Midwest, it seems like some of us boomers (and beyond) went through a stage in the 90s, and the early 00s, when if we were building houses or remodeling bathrooms, we thought we had to have a Jacuzzi bathtub…..

I was among ‘em. (sigh) But, at least, we had sense enough to put in a big water heater.

Later sold the house with the giant Jacuzzi in the bathroom, bought another house from some boomer who had been like-minded back in our salad days of those damned jets……

BUT THEN, I perused plumbing websites until I found that same size, same shape, exact same tub — but without somebody else’s jets — that had been there for 20 years……

Had the old tub very carefully gouged from the nice, neutral tile that surrounded it (a Sawzall is your friend) — and new jetless version was plumbed in.

AND when we sold that house, that “soaking” tub was definitely a feature.

So, Nucky, not only do I get what you are saying, but I have played out the same aversion to jetted tubs of any kind. But please, please, promise me that you will not get so grossed out thinking about that hot tub on the historic side that you will go and take a Sawzall to it.

Persnickety, but not phobic, Boomer

Originally Posted by jimjamuser (Post 2199719)

what if you were in a nursing home with 2 or more people per room? And then they wheeled in a person that you hated from your previous active life. And you were there together for years until one of you died?
.........that would be close to the only phobia that i might have.

Originally Posted by New Englander (Post 2199722)

You're like Batman.

Originally Posted by Michael G. (Post 2199231)

A friend take a couple of "babe-ruth" candy bars when know one was
looking, drop them in the pool.

He had the whole pool to himself. :1rotfl:

Originally Posted by jebartle (Post 2199836)

It's a dooo-dee