But he said he could earn more pay as an ordinary soldier; his stronger motives were adventure, "idealism", and the fact that he was stifling in Paris, "bored shitless", if he didn't make war somewhere.
(A significant increase in faecal pellets suggested they were scared shitless as well).This is an important finding.
The tech-writing guru Om Malik's take was that Facebook was "scared shitless" by a formidable competitor in the world of photo-sharing, but I see it as a much simpler "because we can" rationale (though the two are not always mutually exclusive).
But an ambulance was not the only memento mori, and there were other auguries capable of scaring us shitless.
I ran into Lana at Saks Fifth Avenue, and she told me, 'I'm pregnant, and they're scared shitless, and they're trying to make you into me.
"I was scared shitless, but I learned my lesson," he said.
A member of the McCain staff told me that Cindy was "scared shitless" of harming her husband's campaign.
"He had his face turned away from me, and he said, 'I understand you're here to buy the Yankees, or to make a proposal.' I was scared shitless.
People describe themselves as excited, nervous, apprehensive, tense, stressed out, bugged, worried, panicky, vapor-locked, scared shitless, sick to their stomach, and feeling like they're gonna die.
Ordinarily, I'm exempted from my turn helping Sledge shift his banks of grow lights from one position to the next, but one day recently I was feeling vital (and bored shitless) enough to give it a go.
