What is your one horrible weakness in a Zpoc? You'll be surprised to hear mine

Ok, I have the skills, the equip, the location, etc in real time in the real world. As I have mentioned many times, I live 100% off grid in the Rockies.

So what's my biggest fear or weakness? What scares the shit out of me?

I wear glasses.  I am horribly myopic to the point that without corrective lenses I can see clearly only about 8 inches in front of me.  Genuine coke bottles!  Typically I wear contacts and have several pairs of glasses on hands. 

 But contacts eventually break down and get rips, pin holes or rough edges.  And they have an expiration date, wherein the plastics also get weaker the older they get, even unopened, so they don't last as long and would be kinda worthless after 10-15 years of stockpiling. And they have maintantence issues with cleaning, solution, etc.

 And glasses get scratched up, break or are easily ripped off your face. Plus they impede your vision during rain and get fogged up easily  (Try wearing glasses in a gas mask sometime)

This concerns me to the point that I have seriously considered Lasik, because this is my one big Achilles' Heel in life.  Especially when it comes to night vision, I'd be absolutely useless without glasses on or contacts in.  I could see well enough during the day to drive a car, but not well enough to scout the horizon or shoot and actually hit something.

So, what is your Achille's Heel - what is your one horrible weakness that may end up causing your demise or swing the advantage against you in a disaster or Zpoc?

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Permalink Reply by samamuel Ibn'La-Ahad on September 29, 2011 at 8:00pm
I'm over weight too :D But my weakness would just be accepting it all. With family all around my state and sprawled across the country and friends I care deeply about and seeing the fact they are most likely dead in that situation would weigh down on me heavily.
Permalink Reply by William M. on September 29, 2011 at 11:29pm
My horrible weakness is my sons. Especially my 10 year old. My oldest, 14 is quite the young man. Reliable, smart, responsible, methodical.  My 10 year old...impulsive. Never thinks things through. Because he's the baby,  he truly expects the rest of us to "catch his fall". Twice, he has failed the "get into the car with a stranger" test. He almost took his own eye out with a sharp stick...while trying to pick up a SECOND SHARP STICK!!!  I swear sometimes, I just wanna punch him in the face...just to show him that life will bloody your nose if you don't keep your guard up. But instead, i'm spending all my time trying to "idiot-proof" his life, because the mistakes he is making, could be fatal.  In the zPoc, his carelessness could get his caretaker brother killed. My mission is to get my family to a safe haven, or die trying. It's about the species. These two men must survive, if we are to repopulate the planet. I just don't know what to do this this one...would I be able to put him down if he becomes infected? Lord forgive me for even thinking about this...but this is my fear. That my dumbass 10 year old will shatter my family WTSHTF and reduce our potential survival possibility.
Permalink Reply by PRIME_Ω_PREDATOR on September 30, 2011 at 9:26am
Letting him take some small but valuable falls will prepare him more then idiot proofing your life. I'm not advocating letting him disfigure and handicap himself. When we are kids we learn that we don't mess with certain things because they come back and bite us. Some of us have to learn the hard way before it gets through our skulls of mush.
Permalink Reply by William M. on September 30, 2011 at 4:19pm
I hear ya...it's hard, you know....as a father, to watch them suffer. To watch them fall. It's necessary. The best way to learn NOT to fall, is to get SICK of falling.  I now know what MY dad went through, because I was one HARD HEADED KNOW IT ALL SMART MOUTH PUNK of a guy. 
Permalink Reply by Tori Luve on October 3, 2011 at 6:05pm

This is why I sat in the hall 1/2 of the time in grade school - LOL

 

Permalink Reply by Jericho Syndrome on October 5, 2011 at 11:44am
i come back to this after i had to get an eye check and realize that just about ANYONE here with contacts, eyeglasses or even reading glasses are on this list now....just to point something out....
Permalink Reply by Tori Luve on October 10, 2011 at 8:27pm
I KNOW !!!
Permalink Reply by KP on October 5, 2011 at 1:56pm
I've thought about this long and hard, and I have to say that my weakness would most definitely be children.  I don't have any of my own, but I have an overdeveloped paternal instinct.  I feel a deep, psychological need to protect kids, keep them safe.  I've almost gotten into several fights with overly aggressive or careless parents over their actions towards thier children.  In the ZPoc, I would probably go out of my way or do something stupid to try and save any child I found.  If I felt I could save one or two kids, then I'd stick my neck out, possibly even in the literal sense.  Suffice to say, I don't think I could deal with an infected child, and the idea of facing down a zombified kid... well, that encounter might just push me over the edge of sanity.  Fortunately, my younger brother doesn't have any such reservations, so if he and I can meet up quickly I may end up leaning on him in those terrible moments.  But that's if I'm lucky.
Permalink Reply by pfc. andrew gutierrez on October 6, 2011 at 7:51am
I think maby I care too much and would try to save more people than I actually can. And that could get me killed.
Permalink Reply by Tanner Ruffin on October 6, 2011 at 2:06pm
i have anxiety disorder. i have to take pills or i will flip out. zombie attacks apply alot of stress on people. i also have a fear of deadly viruses, thats bad. once a run out of pills i will not be as useful and i might just freeze up in the middle of a swarm of zeds due to pure fear!
Permalink Reply by Claire on October 7, 2011 at 5:21am

have you tried CBT...  Isuffer from Anxiety and OCD...  theme changes from time to time.  I've never taken meds though as they freak me out...  figure if the issue is in the mind then best to teach the mind to cope... 

 

My weakness would kick in upon being alone for too long... i need to be around people pref not the undead kind lol...

Permalink Reply by michael on October 6, 2011 at 5:44pm
over thinking my strategy's. and I don't cope well with people who don't cooperate.

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