My mother has a severe fear of heights. I did not know about it as a kid. One of several things actually, like not knowing my mother's mother was killed by a drunk driver when she was young, thus leaving me to think my 'nana' on my mothers side was my biological grandmother when she was just my grandfathers second wife, something I didn't know until I was like 20 years old.
A long long time (mid 90's), one of my aunties and several of her kids were visiting and we went to Parramatta. Place was packed out, had to park on the roof, right on the edge.
After we finished and came to leave I casually remarked that we could see centerpoint tower... my mother did not take this revelation well.
Neither did she take me going on about it while in the van for another 5 minutes while we were waiting for a straggler.
She ended up screaming out 'fucking shut the fuck up' inside the packed van filled with several teenagers & pre-teens (and her sister, who laughed her head off). To this day I remind her of it. I reminded her of it yesterday actually, as she came home from a holiday, having taking a balloon ride in Turkey and supposedly been 'cured' of her fear of heights.
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Edited by macktheknife: 8/5/2014 09:16:49 PM
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