What was your last near death experience

[William Gaatjes]

About a month ago, i was passing a freight truck (driving right lane) on the left lane of a 2 lane motorway when the driver of a white stationwagon driving in front of the truck decided he/she still needed the motorway exit on the left towards Arnhem (NL). And thus shifted lanes from right to left and did a full brake and i was going 70 miles an hour, i could steer the company bus with a hard right just in front of the freight truck in safety or i would have ran into that white sedan with full speed. What an idiot.

 

[UnklSnappy]

Heart attack a couple years ago.

 

[AMDisTheBEST]

I was attacked by a vampire ninja one dark night. I survived but my blood loss was considerable and I was near death.

 

[Mayne]

I was 5 years old...had an appendicits...i thought i was dying them...got that fixed and spent the next 10 months in the hospital due to complications/infection. It was a crazy time for me to be honest.

 

[madoka]

I hope there was mayo in there!

I may be willing to eat wilted vegetables off a car floor mat, but I draw the line at mayo!

 

[madoka]

Why degrade yourself with Subway?
I thought you made decent money?
Don't you have like .. SOMETHING better?

I had a coupon. $6 for a footlong.

On Sunday I spent $10K on autographs ($6200) and a new gun ($4000), so I feel pretty broke.

 

[cbrunny]

I had a close call... few years ago we were gifted a hot air balloon ride.

 

[Skunk-Works]

Straying the barrel of a gun. Long story, don't want to talk about it.

 

[IronWing]

Kosovo

I thought you were on a submarine?

 

[BurnItDwn]

I had a coupon. $6 for a footlong.

On Sunday I spent $10K on autographs ($6200) and a new gun ($4000), so I feel pretty broke.

I can not fathom spending even a penny for autographs, but guns are fun!

I take it subway doesnt do their 3 footlongs for $6.99 any more like they did in the late 90s .... (when I was a poor student, they were a go to place)

 

[shortylickens]

I thought you were on a submarine?

No.
You fantasize about me having hot gay man sex all the time.
Eventually your brain put me on a sub and forgot about the man fantasies.
You sick basterd.

 

[Capt Caveman]

Crossing the Finish Line at the Boston Marathon in 2013 to turn around to the two bombs going off. Feeling the explosions, seeing the clouds of smoke and everything blow up into the air then seeing a thousand people running past me to get away. Still haunts me today.

 

[PricklyPete]

Crossing the Finish Line at the Boston Marathon in 2013 to turn around to the two bombs going off. Feeling the explosions, seeing the clouds of smoke and everything blow up into the air then seeing a thousand people running past me to get away. Still haunts me today.

Ugh dude...that is rough.

 

[IronWing]

No.
You fantasize about me having hot gay man sex all the time.
Eventually your brain put me on a sub and forgot about the man fantasies.
You sick basterd.

Oh. So much for those drawings of you in the boom boom room.

 

[madoka]

I can not fathom spending even a penny for autographs, but guns are fun!

Actually one of the autographs I bought mixed the two together:

https://celebrityauthenticsauctions.com/LotDetail.aspx?inventoryid=6539

 

[shortylickens]

Heart attack a couple years ago.

Are you better now?

 

[mindless1]

3 years ago, fertilizer exposure poisoning while gardening. Was lucky to remain functional long enough to find someone to say "call 911" before collapsing, zero muscle strength so I assumed I'd stop breathing and have a heart attack. (Un-?)fortunately I was fully conscious while it was happening, except for moments of mild seizures for an hour at the hospital ER. Hospital just monitored and gave saline, eventually I drank a gallon of water on my own, pissed enough of it out, then was released that night.

 

[Thebobo]

When I rolled a friends van on the alcan.

 

[UnklSnappy]

Are you better now?

Yep, seems like I am. They fixed me up with a couple stents and 4 prescriptions I'll likely be taking the rest of my life. Haven't had any angina episodes or other symptoms since.

 

[Thunder 57]

^ I think it's fine to go out into the intersection to wait for an opening because you can still go when your turn light goes red. The only time you should not go out is if there is congestion on the street you're turning onto and you may actually get stuck. More cars make it through the turn this way overall compared to people waiting at the white line for their opening. I despise waiting more than 1 light iteration before getting through a turn. I wish more people were capable of everyday tasks such as this so they don't screw others over. In the end it may only make a couple minutes' difference but it's the same reason people casually speed... the alternative is too f'n slow for normal people. This ain't the boonies where everything is expected to be slow.

If you are making a left turn (and it's not backed up), yes, get your ass out there. Not if you are going straight, though. Don't block the box.

Yes, she got the ticket, not the lady who ran into her.

That's stupid. Both were at fault. Both should have gotten tickets.

 

[highland145]

If you are making a left turn (and it's not backed up), yes, get your ass out there. Not if you are going straight, though. Don't block the box.

Homeboy?

 

[Thunder 57]

Homeboy?

Not sure what you mean, or it just went right over my head.

 

[highland145]

Not sure what you mean, or it just went right over my head.

Normal road rules....like you posted, just do the right shit. Too many can't even get into the intersection with no other traffic.

WTH? Stay the eff home, please.

 

[Thunder 57]

Normal road rules....like you posted, just do the right shit. Too many can't even get into the intersection with no other traffic.

WTH? Stay the eff home, please.

Absolutely. I can't stand idiots on the road. Not long ago I saw I was about to hit a bunch of traffic because of an accident on the Interstate. It was a pain in the ass, but what really infuriated me is that the crash was on the other side! It was all backed up because of stupid rubberneckers. Stupidity. I don't think much of the general public though. There have been places I've worked at where I question how mid life adults manage to tie their shoes in the morning.

 

[KillerCharlie]

Climbing Mt Rainier 5 years ago.

We got separated from our other rope team in a mid-July blizzard so bad that I couldn't see more than about 15 feet. The other rope team had our GPS. There were a few sporadic wands on the route, so the person on the end of the rope would go off into the abyss searching for one, yell when he found it, then we'd follow the rope to him. At one point the wind was so bad (probably about 75 mph) we couldn't stand up and had to hunker down for a few minutes . On top of that my water bottles had frozen shut completely and I couldn't open them.

Miraculously we stumbled upon another separated rope team after a few hours. We eventually got to the point that we knew we were going the right way. Toward the end, we crossed a huge crevasse (probably 10 feet wide) that had a big natural snow bridge on it. The guy in front of me tripped while he was crossing it. I was so tired that I just watched it happened. If he had fallen off the bridge, I had no energy to try to dig in, so all 3 of us would've been pulled in and killed.

We made it back to camp several hours after our other group had. They claimed they were about to talk to the rangers to send search and rescue.