31 of the Wildest Things People Have Done to Avoid Facing Their Fears
Contrary to that one quote from Franklin D. Roosevelt, there’s a whole lot more to fear than just fear itself.
Take it from the very crafty Redditor who ventured where only Angus MacGyver — or let’s be real, SNL’s bumbling MacGruber — has before, in jerry-rigging a massive contraption to remove a branch from their roof instead of facing their fear of ladders. “The only way I could think to get it down was to duct-tape two rakes together, end to end, and try to get it with that,” he recalled.
Their gadget, unfortunately, failed, and the branch is still sitting on his roof. “Probably gave the neighbors a laugh,” he concluded.
This very grounded man is in good, albeit terrified, company. Other Redditors have divulged the greatest lengths they’ve gone to avoid facing their fears, including one who actually climbed out of a window to avoid walking past a spider.
