Phobias on Aisle 5

[liz_marcs]

via honorh:

Sears Tower in Chicago has opened a glass balcony on the 103rd floor.

I believe I have mentioned several times in this journal that I have crippling terror of heights.

Just looking at the pictures made me go AAAAAAAAAHHHHHHHH!!!!!!!!

And then I had to hide under my desk for 5 minutes until I calmed down.

Slide show showing people looking like they're floating in air if you're a freak.

Acrophobes like myself might want to give the pictures a big miss.

Comments

[dingsi]

It took a lot of courage to click the link, but I wanted to try. And, uh. I managed to look at a few pictures. Though my brain was constantly screaming "Get the kids out there! Gah, don't show me the floor! People, you need to get OFF that balcony NOW!" in a panicky, slightly nauseous fashion. I don't get the appeal. At all. (You couldn't PAY me to step onto that balcony. D:)

[liz_marcs]

I told you! I told you!

But, yeaaaaahhhh. I'm all, "Why are you not screaming and running away?"

I think everyone who was on that thing had to be blind. That's the only explanation why people weren't throwing up while standing in a class box 103 stories above the ground. Seriously.

[twistedchick]

When I went there with my aunt some years ago, it was all I could do to stand five feet back from the windows and look across the lake. Glass balcony? Not going there. *SO* not going there.

[liz_marcs]

Nope. No. No. No. Never.

Hell, I wouldn't even go in the building if I could help it. Standing in a glass balcony suspended up the city like that? Not going to happen. Assuming you could even get me in the building.

[theantijoss]

Dude, I'm not even particularly afraid of heights and I find that scary!

[liz_marcs]

Imagine a 'phobe dealing with it.

[theantijoss]

I told my mom about it, and she plugged her ears and went "Lalalalalalala!" She's terrified of heights. I have to bring her plants down from their ceiling hangers when she wants to water them because she won't climb even a stepladder.

[dorothy1901]

I've added it to my list of "100 Places You Must Visit Before You Die (If You're Not Me)."

[liz_marcs]

*nod nod nod*

I've added it to my list of "100 Places You Must Stay Away From If You Don't Want to Die of a Heart Attack."

[rainkatt]

Oh, hell, no. I did click on the slideshow link, and managed to see a few, and I'm still slightly nauseated and my legs are tingling with the urge to RUN! far, far away. I may be hyperventilating, just a little. Oh, argh.

I'm flashing back to the lighthouse tower I climbed. Lordy, was that not pretty.

A definite place to never, ever go. EVER.

[liz_marcs]

Yes. Indeed. Best if we all stay away, really.

I keep flashing on, "What the hell were they thinking?!?"

[krait]

As an acrophile (is that even a word?), I must say that that is the Coolest Thing Ever! And I cracked up at this part:

Sears Tower officials have said the inspiration for the balconies came from the hundreds of forehead prints visitors left behind on Skydeck windows every week.

That was me, when I went to Chicago! Leaning as far over the protective rails as I could, taking pictures. :D

(If I go to "the Ledge", you can bet I will be oh-so-cautiously tiptoeing out upon it. Probably trying not to look down until I'm standing still. But I'll be on it!)