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Being passed something expensive to hold
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I was in my local photo shop last weekend and they had a used lens that they were putting to one side for selling to a collector. They said 'try it on your camera and have a play' so there I was fitting nearly £3,000 of lens (the size of a cricket ball) to my camera for a few photos. I felt is that I was going to drop it - my worst fear. I passed it back after a few photos and thought about how something small and fragile is worth as much as a decent car.
Same as when another camera shop owner passed me a camera and lens and said to try it. Only when I was holding it he said 'careful, that is 15 grands worth there'.
Does holding high value items stress you or can you just relax and mess about with them?
Same as when another camera shop owner passed me a camera and lens and said to try it. Only when I was holding it he said 'careful, that is 15 grands worth there'.
Does holding high value items stress you or can you just relax and mess about with them?
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I feel the same is people ask to me to hold fragile items of a sentimental value. I go into panic mode, I don't know why.
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Obviously holding a newborn baby is different to expensive items, I don't panic but I am VERY aware of their safety, how I hold them, is their head supported etc.
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It's one part of your brain competing with another. The part that imagines things, and the part that performs tasks. Once you've held a baby for a while the feeling wears off.
Like the 'Speak now or forever hold your peace' moment at weddings, I used to feel a rush and prickle of sweat, just because of what might happen.
When you walk on a pavement, you're only supported by a foot's worth of concrete beneath you. Yet some freaks feel different about their entire feet equally being supported by concrete many floors up on a ledge. Logically, there should be no fear, but humanly, there is.
Same with dropping or damaging things. Remember the episode of Top Gear a few years ago when they borrowed one of Chris Evans's extremely expensive cars and pretended a learner driver had to pass it on a narrow street? There was very real tension for many viewers, even though passing an old banger wouldn't have resulted in a scratch either. Just because of its value, viewers worried.