AMDZen
Lifer
- Apr 15, 2004
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Me too. I rolled the sexiest car I ever owned. And the worst part was that nobody saw my side of the story. All the cops were in agreement that it was my fault, despite the fact that I was cut off on the highway. It was still my fault because :
a) I was racing the other car
b) I swerved to avoid hitting the Porsche vs brake, which probably would have worked
But I still wasn't the only one at fault, and it certainly wasn't me who caused the accident. I can live with it now, but it still haunts me to this day. On the bright side, my car was faster then the Porsche and that makes me proud because I did all the mods with my dad to make that car so fast. It was a 1994 Trans Am BTW, with Headers, Intake, Exhaust and super chipped. Too bad I had to ruin it.
Oh and I should add, that one of the witnesses was going to side with me. He told me he would and everything, and that he saw what happened. Turns out he said to the cop that he wasn't sure what happened, and he wasn't sure if the Porsche had cut me off. So I got a Red license, a huge insurance raise, and hell from everyone.
It could have been ALOT worse though, death comes to mind.
When my parents told me they were getting a divorce.
When my fiance called off our engagement and dumped me 6 weeks before the wedding because she needed to "find herself".
When the dog I had raised since my childhood suddenly died a little over a year ago.
When my fiance called off our engagement and dumped me 6 weeks before the wedding because she needed to "find herself".
When the dog I had raised since my childhood suddenly died a little over a year ago.
SacrosanctFiend
Diamond Member
- Oct 2, 2004
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January 14th, 1999. I was skating outside my house with my best friend, my mom was sitting on the front porch painting. 4 guys in a car drive up, open fire with some automatic weapons. My best friend gets hit in the leg and goes down, I get hit in the chest and go down. I wake up in the hospital with two cops and a doctor standing next to my bed. The doctor looks at the cops, they leave, and then the doc tells me my mom was killed. Then I have to endure some questioning by the cops while in a state of shock. At that point, I'm lying in a hospital bed without any parents, and only one living blood relative left.
had a hangover.
had 1 bareback and 2 bulls to ride.
rode the horse and first bull fine, second bull and final ride of the rodeo.
tagged out at 7 1/2 seconds. went over the top and landed in front of the bull.
bull proceded to stomp and gore me. 13 inch cut up my chest, 8 broken ribs, dislocated knee, concusion and then the fvcking ambulance crew cut my new pair of tony llamas off my feet on the way to the hospital.
that was a pretty bad day, but not as bad as one of my co-workers...
he got shot in the back of his head while hunting. he's ok now, but he got lucky as hell
had 1 bareback and 2 bulls to ride.
rode the horse and first bull fine, second bull and final ride of the rodeo.
tagged out at 7 1/2 seconds. went over the top and landed in front of the bull.
bull proceded to stomp and gore me. 13 inch cut up my chest, 8 broken ribs, dislocated knee, concusion and then the fvcking ambulance crew cut my new pair of tony llamas off my feet on the way to the hospital.
that was a pretty bad day, but not as bad as one of my co-workers...
he got shot in the back of his head while hunting. he's ok now, but he got lucky as hell
I was working a third shift job at an Iron Foundry, needed to have some maintenance on my car that I could only get a dealer to do. The only "time slot" they had for the repairs was at 9AM and they told me it would take only a couple of hours. I get home from work at 7AM and go to bed, so I figured instead I would just take the car in after work at sleep after it was done until I have to leave.
I take it there after being quoted a price of about 200 to fix it. 11AM rolls around and the car hasn't been even taken into the garage. I asked what was going on, the assured me that the car was going to be in the garage in 5 minutes. I had read through all of their magazines and didn't want to watch their TV that only got reception on one channel, so I decided to walk across the street to the mall and walk around for a bit.
I wonder around for an hour and a half, walk back, and as I'm getting there, they are JUST THEN taking the car into the garage. Since I've been awake at this point for almost 22 hours, I plop down on their couch and fall asleep. I can't get to sleep because some mom and her 5 kids are running around screaming, so I just watch Judge Judy (I hate that lady.) 2 hours later and asked about my car... they still hadn't finished.
FINALLY, at 4:30, they came and told me that my car was ready. I get to the cashier and they told me the total was about $400... $400!!!!!!!!!!! YOU QUOTED ME FOR ABOUT $200!!! THAT'S ALL I HAD TAKEN OUT OF MY ACCOUNT TO PAY YOU WITH!!!!
So I ended up having to walk half a mile to the nearest branch of my bank, overdraw my checking account to get the remained of the money (I couldn't withdraw from my savings, it was presidents day or something dumb and the bank was closed.) and walk back to pay for my car. I get there right as the same damn cashier is locking the door and I have to argue with her to open the door back up so I can pay. I've been there from 8:30 until 4:30 and you won't let me have my car? Fsck you. I don't care if you are tired and you want to go home because pressing buttons and taking money is a hard job.
Finally, at 5:30 I get home. I have to leave for work at 8, so I get to bed, sleep for 2.5 hours and wake up wanting to kill myself for being so tired. I rush out the door, forget my lunch, have only $1 left in my wallet to buy any food and drive to work. I get pulled over on the way to work for doing 61 in a 55 (Lame.) and when I finally get to work I find out that the day crew was really productive in making the molds for the iron, so we're going to have to bust ass or be there until 10AM trying to get done.
The next day I get home from work at around 9AM, shower, then sleep until 8PM when I have to work again. ARRGGGHHH.
I take it there after being quoted a price of about 200 to fix it. 11AM rolls around and the car hasn't been even taken into the garage. I asked what was going on, the assured me that the car was going to be in the garage in 5 minutes. I had read through all of their magazines and didn't want to watch their TV that only got reception on one channel, so I decided to walk across the street to the mall and walk around for a bit.
I wonder around for an hour and a half, walk back, and as I'm getting there, they are JUST THEN taking the car into the garage. Since I've been awake at this point for almost 22 hours, I plop down on their couch and fall asleep. I can't get to sleep because some mom and her 5 kids are running around screaming, so I just watch Judge Judy (I hate that lady.) 2 hours later and asked about my car... they still hadn't finished.
FINALLY, at 4:30, they came and told me that my car was ready. I get to the cashier and they told me the total was about $400... $400!!!!!!!!!!! YOU QUOTED ME FOR ABOUT $200!!! THAT'S ALL I HAD TAKEN OUT OF MY ACCOUNT TO PAY YOU WITH!!!!
So I ended up having to walk half a mile to the nearest branch of my bank, overdraw my checking account to get the remained of the money (I couldn't withdraw from my savings, it was presidents day or something dumb and the bank was closed.) and walk back to pay for my car. I get there right as the same damn cashier is locking the door and I have to argue with her to open the door back up so I can pay. I've been there from 8:30 until 4:30 and you won't let me have my car? Fsck you. I don't care if you are tired and you want to go home because pressing buttons and taking money is a hard job.
Finally, at 5:30 I get home. I have to leave for work at 8, so I get to bed, sleep for 2.5 hours and wake up wanting to kill myself for being so tired. I rush out the door, forget my lunch, have only $1 left in my wallet to buy any food and drive to work. I get pulled over on the way to work for doing 61 in a 55 (Lame.) and when I finally get to work I find out that the day crew was really productive in making the molds for the iron, so we're going to have to bust ass or be there until 10AM trying to get done.
The next day I get home from work at around 9AM, shower, then sleep until 8PM when I have to work again. ARRGGGHHH.
Day before boot camp ...1st day of boot camp... saying bye to my family friends and my old life... then getting spit, yelled, and shoved around in a public airport bye the first drill instructor.
Originally posted by: eigen
The threads over.
Seriously, if that story is true, this thread can not be topped by anyone else. That's crazy!!
Um, yea. Sacro wins.
My worst day: getting woken up at 8am on a Saturday after only having had like 2-3 hours of sleep to find out my grandfather passed away in his sleep. Drove over to the hospital and saw him lying motionless in the bed. That on top of the day the funeral was.
My worst day: getting woken up at 8am on a Saturday after only having had like 2-3 hours of sleep to find out my grandfather passed away in his sleep. Drove over to the hospital and saw him lying motionless in the bed. That on top of the day the funeral was.
being stuck in hoboken and watching the first tower collapse onto lower manhattan and worrying about my wife, who was somewhere scrambling uptown with all the other thousands of new yorkers, with no way to know if she was ok.
rh71
No Lifer
- Aug 28, 2001
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In retrospect, it really wasn't a "terrible day". I look back and think how lucky I was instead. [Didn't know] I ruptured my spleen from a hockey game and left alone, just before the start of the 2nd game (we travel so we play more than one game if we can)... I nearly made it back to the dorms ... but as I was turning a corner, I lost my hearing first, then blacked out after completing the turn. When I woke, a few minutes later (I think)... I found I had managed to put my car in Park and even pulled the handbrake, in the middle of the road (little traffic) and sitting in some of my own piss.
At this point, I still didn't know I was bleeding internally - nothing more than tough abdominal cramps. I practically crawled my way back to my dormroom and called the health center... they told me to go to the hospital as a precaution - don't mess with the abdominal area. Got driven, blacked out again at the ER door... uncontrollable shaking in the trauma room cause I was freezing with leaking blood... scans showed I had ruptured my spleen and I stayed for 5 days after an emergency spleenectomy.
But I look back at it all and think - if they hadn't told me to go to the hospital as a precaution, I would've just tried to sleep it off... and bled to death. Lucky was me.
At this point, I still didn't know I was bleeding internally - nothing more than tough abdominal cramps. I practically crawled my way back to my dormroom and called the health center... they told me to go to the hospital as a precaution - don't mess with the abdominal area. Got driven, blacked out again at the ER door... uncontrollable shaking in the trauma room cause I was freezing with leaking blood... scans showed I had ruptured my spleen and I stayed for 5 days after an emergency spleenectomy.
But I look back at it all and think - if they hadn't told me to go to the hospital as a precaution, I would've just tried to sleep it off... and bled to death. Lucky was me.
Ugh, I can relate to that. The first day you get to your real training unit, after spending about a week in reception.
Worst day of my life by far. But I survived, and I'm a better person for it!
<3 Army
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