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What is the closest you've ever come to being killed?
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I was swimming and when I tried to come up for air I hit my head on the bottom of a row boat. The boaters were my cousins and they shouldn't have been boating in the swimming area.
I was below deck on a sailboat and when we hit a huge wave the chair became untethered sending me flying. I hit my head on a metal pole and was knocked out for quit a while. When I came to everyone was standing over me crying. |
Anonymous
| Gosh some of these are scary! Not me, but my MIL was probably a minute from dying in a car accident - car skidded on black ice, spun out and off the road, down an embankment, hit a tree and burst into flames. Did I mention this road was in the middle of nowhere, in a place there is almost no traffic? Luckily, a young soldier just back from Iraq did drive by, saw the flames, and pulled her out. But she had already made peace with dying. |
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My mother came to pick me up at swimming lessions when I was about 5 and found me on the bottom of the deep end, none of the counslers were paying attention and they had told us we could jump off the diving board, apparently I thought I could swim better than I actually could, I remember being at the bottom of the pool, and then one of the counslers doing mouth to mouth. I was fine but it was a very close call, imagine if my mother had been ten minutes late?
Once I drove down the exit ramp to the highway and realized when I swa the headlights coming at me, it was dark and I didn't know where I was. I once was at a festival/concert type thing sleeping in a tent and got run over by a 4 wheeler, the wheels went right on either side of my head, the person sleeping next to me had tire marks on his shoulder the next day. |
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Thank goodness previous posters are all alive to tell their tale. I am sure there are even worse ones out there, but some are too traumatized to share...
I was hit by a car at 10 years old right in front of my school. My head made a big dent in the front of the car and I had a brain injury but no broken bones. Right when my parents were agonizing on whether there would be long-term consequences, the driver calls them up and asks for reimbursement for the damage!!!! My father, who has never once lost control of his nerves, simply replied: "talk to my lawyer" and hung up. Had I been my father, I would have screamed at her. |
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My DH and I were on a country highway, going 55 mph, when a white van coming toward us drifted all the way into our lane. DH just managed to avoid the head-on collision but we ran off the road into a ditch. I still remember it all so vividly.
Asshole in the van didn't even stop to check on us. Slowed down, looked back, but didn't stop. |
Anonymous
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I sea lion popped up from the ocean only about 3 feet away from me, staring at me. I freaked and I ran/swam for shore. I was in shallow water, only about 4 to 5 feet in.
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#1- Scuba diving in a very remote area of the Pacific ocean. The first "big" dive and descended a bit quickly. Found myself at 90 feet quickly and started to pass out. Managed -somehow- not to panic and ascended until I felt better. (Stupidly, I went on to finish the dive).
#2 - In Tijuana with a friend. Got in a car with two college boys who promised to give us a ride back into San Diego. We had been drinking and had never met these guys before. Luckily, they were nice boys. Clearly were wanting some action but left quietly when it was clear that wasn't happen. Very bad judgment. |
Anonymous
| I smoke, am overweight, drink 10 beers a night, love Quentin Tarantino movies, get very little exercise, think vampires are the new coming, am a big fan of The Cure and Radiohead, sleep as much as possible just to dream of a better life, and eat potato chips on a regular basis. I am the Evel Kenivel of the new millenium. I court death on a regular basis yet keep on waking up every morniing-what am I doing wrong? |
Anonymous
You, my dear, will live to see beyond ninety. And the exercising, deep breathing, soy, organic granola who works eighty hour weeks will die many years before you.  Who knows though, I know of some hard drinking, chain smoking, crappy diet, all around hard living, hell raisers who lived into their nineties.
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You are my hero. Revel in your excess. (and I write this with a smile on my face and no snark in my intent.) |
Anonymous
| delivering my child. all worked out, but almost didn't. |
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When I was 10 years old I remember driving in the front seat (between my parents - it was an old car with a bench seat in the front...oh a lap belt) and my dad must have been driving 65mph on I95 north towards Baltimore.
Traffic started to slow down, but the car didn't. For some reason, the breaks failed. My dad swerved to the right to avoid hitting the gridlock ahead (still going 65mph!) and we veered into construction barrels - (there was a construction zone on the shoulder) and must have ran over at least 8 of them before we finally hit a mound of gravel and stopped. My dad was able to avoid cars, heave construction equipment, and the workers. We all walked away without a scratch. |
Anonymous
| I think i was one of the last people to be vaccinated with smallpox vaccine - and had a very bad reaction to it which almost killed me. Glad that i survived and that DD would not need the smallpox vaccine now! |
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Last year, my sister was staying in Saddam's old palace and it was bombed while she sleeping. Thank God they missed her, but others were not so lucky. A few weeks ago she felt a bomb 8 miles away. Sigh.
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Mine all have to do with cars.
1. my mom and I were going to pick up my sister from friends house a few miles away. The van broke down/ran out of gas (we still don't actually know which- gas gauge indicated it was low but still had some...) we got out, crossed the highway (which in and of itself was dangerous- route 50 at 10pm) to go to a payphone (pre cell phone days) She called a few people who weren't home, finally got in touch with one person who said they'd come. I was young and freezing, hungry and tired and wanted to go wait in the car (kids!) but she told me to wait until after the next phone call to inform the people we were getting sis from... That person answered the phone. A few minutes into the call we heard the sounds of a crash and saw sparks flying. By the time we got back across the highway people were looking for our bodies down the embankment... a trucker with a frozen food/freezer load fell asleep at the wheel, drifted off to the side and hit our van pretty much obliterating it up to the front 2 seats! That was one crumpled car. I'm sad to say one of my beloved baby dolls "died" in that crash. I was so heartbroken. Carried that baby everywhere with me for a year or two prior. 2. when I was learning to drive I went down one way streets the wrong way twice. Oops. Definitely learned to figure that one out pretty quick! Thank god for the more experienced drivers who were paying attention! One of them was on a 4 lane road that had a small crossing area in the center and was poorly lit... there weren't any cars when I first turned on it...but within about 30 seconds I quickly realized my error that I had turned too soon! (thinking it was a 2lane) just as I started to spot headlights coming at me head on. Never made that mistake again. Thankfully no crashing was involved in those incidents. |