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What happens if you get scared half to death (Original Post)
Floyd R. Turbo
May 2019
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htuttle
(23,738 posts)1. Then you're 3/4 scared to death
Zeno's Paradox, and all.
Floyd R. Turbo
(26,545 posts)2. Ah ha! 😏
Thank you!
NotASurfer
(2,146 posts)3. Three times, you're mostly dead
just short of going through your pockets for loose change, if I remember the wisdom of Miracle Max correctly
Wounded Bear
(58,601 posts)9. Mostly dead!
True Dough
(17,255 posts)4. I haven't been scared half to death
but I'm still trying to get my bejesus back!
VOX
(22,976 posts)6. Petition the gods for a mulligan. But there's a ton of paperwork involved.
And you have to go through the proper channels.
Bayard
(22,005 posts)7. Then you're a cat
KY_EnviroGuy
(14,488 posts)8. Depends.
If I get scared half to death today and again five years from now, I will have had plenty of time for my nerves to recover so in the end, I'm still only scared half to death. Adrenaline actually (normally) subsides within an hour or so.
However, if I get scared half to death by a bullet whizzing past my head and then a second shot does the same a second later, then I'm scared 3/4 to death - at least for a while.
After I first change my underwear.......
backtoblue
(11,343 posts)10. I think it's like working off a sick day at work
After about a year, it's all reset.