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Hm... i don't want to interfere with someone's business, but would it be possible to try to overcome the fear by watching videos of bridge crossings from a driver's perspective? You may watch it in slow motion, you may successively increse a distance to a point where you dont want to go futher, and you may at any instance pause, stop or interrupt the video, until you have seen the whole trip a few times.. Finally you may use the Kent Island Express as a front passenger, until you get so used to it that you may take teh trip by yourself...
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I had a friend who had a phobia about driving over bridges, matching the feelings of some of the Reddit commenters. I'm scared of heights, but can manage bridges by looking straight ahead. Were things a bit worse, I could see paying someone to help. Like, the last time I was on an aerial tramway I had to keep my eyes closed for the first 30 seconds.
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Fahrenheit is a scale based on human comfort. Zero is really cold, and 100 is really hot, in human terms. It's quite simple, but not at all random. Centigrade is fine when you want to boil or freeze water. Kelvin is for mad scientists.
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Being on the metric system, I wasn't familiar with the DeForest Kelley unit of measurement. I guess it's another confusing American measurement that makes as much sense as that weird temperature unit. Fartytarts? Fearofheights? You know what I mean, that one that is just based on random numbers selected from a hat for freezing and boiling and then a scale slapped in it. Voila!
Farfromright?
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I thought of the 1967 Gilligan's Island episode "Splashdown" where they tried to signal "SOS" to the passing spacecraft using burning logs, but Gilligan ended up turning it into "SOL" - one of the astronauts is named Sol Tobias, and he thinks the "SOL" is to honor him.
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