Am I Going to Die?

[Unholykrumpet]

Once I was incredibly out of my mind (that half awake, half asleep state) and I truly believed I was going to be killed by a monkey who had a Halo gun (don't ask me why). However it was the scariest experience of my life.

What...the hell...is a Halo gun?

I actually have two. One would be when I visiting my sister in LA when I was seventeen. She lived in a relatively nice apartment complex. she went out for a bit to grab some sushi for us. After she left, I heard a banging outside, and I looked through the peekhole and saw a pretty looking girl (maybe nineteen) getting her head repeatedly banged against the wall by a punk in leather (again probably eighteen-nineteen). She was crying, and so I made an impulsive decision to be a hero. I grabbed my sisters tennis racket (both of us have played tennis since we were nine), and opened up the door. The confrontation went like this:

Me: "Look, man, I don't know what your problem is, but quit doing that."
Him: "Mind your own business, *****. She owes me money"
Me: "Well, I don't think you'll find it by opening a hole in the wall with her face"
Him: "I SAID FUCK OFF"
Me: "Well, really you didn't, you just said..."
Him: *pulls out a gun* "You better get the fuck back inside, and not move until I'm gone. Or do you want to die today?"
Me: "Jesus Christ, man. I'm going" *turns back to him with my hands up
Him: *pistol whips me in the back of head*

A few hours later, I find that my sister found me collapsed right inside her door. Apparently he dragged me unconscious in there and shut the door. He stole the tennis racket though. Or maybe she picked it up and beat the living fuck out of him. I didn't see any report of a girl being abused or killed in the paper the next day, so hopefully nothing happened.

My other one, I just flipped a riding lawn mower and nearly got my neck sliced open. My ipod earbuds had gotten sliced...and they were hanging like maybe two inches away from my neck...so that was scary as hell.

 

[Trivun]

I once went to the ER because I had a fever of 42C. That's pretty close to dying I suppose.

edit: That's 107F for those of you who use Fahrenheit... Down with Fahrenheit, it makes no sense.

Uh.
Not to get off topic but, Fahrenheit makes no sense?
Since when?

It makes more sense to say 0 Degrees is 0 Degrees and go from there, unlike Celcius which makes 100 degrees be like 40.

Celcius is much easier because it is standardised. 100C is the boiling point of water, but it's slightly harder to remember the Farenheit value if you aren't used to Farenheit. Celcius is standard and is better, the Americans just like to make things complicated.

Yes. Just like everyone else

Have you actually bothered to read the OP or any of this thread, or are you just too lazy to bother?

As for my answer to this thread, see my first post (above).

 

[goin-mad]

Had cancer as a kid, Hodgkin's disease, though I now realize that that form of lymphoma was pretty easily cured back then, probably cause I was 9 experiencing all the treatment, it all seemed very dire. That and one medication caused excruciating pain, found out years later that advancements in the technique of that med led to a new method which was painless and was apparently more effective.

 

[StarkRavingSane]

Every morning when i look in the mirror.

Clean the mirror. Helps a lot.

 

[Jagers1994]

I fell 15 feet, feet first one time. Right before I hit the ground i thought of death. I actually did think I died because I couldnt open my eyes so all I see was like this blank pitch black plane. When I finally opened my eyes I hyperventelated at the sight of my left leg twisted in the exact opposite direction left legs usually go. It was intense.

 

[spuddyt]

I once went to the ER because I had a fever of 42C. That's pretty close to dying I suppose.

edit: That's 107F for those of you who use Fahrenheit... Down with Fahrenheit, it makes no sense.

Uh.
Not to get off topic but, Fahrenheit makes no sense?
Since when?

It makes more sense to say 0 Degrees is 0 Degrees and go from there, unlike Celcius which makes 100 degrees be like 40.

actually the only logical one is Kelvin, but unless you fancy giving all temperatures used in real life in a range of about 270-310, then you accept that logic isn't neccesarily helpful.
but Fahrenheit is more arbitrary than celsius, which uses the temp between water freezing and water boiling, whereas fahrenheit (i think) just uses some values that some guy came up with some day.

 

[Ursus Astrorum]

Once when I was thirteen, I tripped down the top flight of stairs in my three-story apartment complex. I tumble down, and get on my feet only to have the momentum throw me over the rail and onto the awning below, where I rolled off of it into the nearby lawn. Keep in mind that the awning is about ten feet off the ground.

The amazing part was when I stood up unscathed moments later and walked home. It was a month before I felt the injury I had: a microfracture in my foot that grew overtime (as I love to walk, it took quite a bit to make it hurt).

 

[Devil's Due]

Had my appendix removed when I was 10. It was horrible, horrible pain for days. Near the end, I couldn't stand it, where it hurt the worst I've felt in my life just to even try and sleep. My mother took me to the hospital where I waited half a freaking hour in searing pain thanks to some kid with the sniffles who was taking up the ER's line, finally when I got in they realized what it was and rushed me straight to the operation room after knocking me out with some gas. Turns out I had a few hours left before it would have burst inside of me, and killing me.

Not fun.

 

[Extirpation]

When I was younger
I fell sprained my foot and lost my skis on a black diamond trail.
I was alone It was dark and snowing and I couldn't move off the track.
I sat there for a good 20-30 min as a few people sped past me almost hitting me. I had no phone at the time, and it was getting progressively darker but my parents had called the ski patrol and they found me a few hours later.
I seriously thought I was going to die and I remember that to this day.

and I never found that ski.
we never had to pay to replace the rental either...

 

[thatstheguy]

edit: That's 107F for those of you who use Fahrenheit... Down with Fahrenheit, it makes no sense.

But America doesn't want to.

Anyway. There was one time going to school when I slipped on the ice and almost went into the street when a car was coming.

 

[SquirrelPants]

Christmas Day 2008, I went four-wheeling with my dad and uncle. Well, we ended up getting stuck. It was a pretty simple dig-out, it seemed, until we realized not only were we stuck on all sides in 4 feet of snow and a foot of mud, but that we ended up hitting a pond, causing the Bronco to sink an extra foot.
I nearly froze, and had a minuscule amount of ice frozen onto my feet, and I think I was getting to hypothermia, because I was FREAKING THE FUCK OUT.
Anyway, we finally got my mom and aunt to come, and they brought me and the dog home, but my dad and uncle stayed. It took two trucks, a broken shovel, 5 hours, and a pretty much ruined Christmas to get the Bronco out.

 

[gmer412]

I once went to the ER because I had a fever of 42C. That's pretty close to dying I suppose.

edit: That's 107F for those of you who use Fahrenheit... Down with Fahrenheit, it makes no sense.

Uh.
Not to get off topic but, Fahrenheit makes no sense?
Since when?

It makes more sense to say 0 Degrees is 0 Degrees and go from there, unlike Celcius which makes 100 degrees be like 40.

actually the only logical one is Kelvin, but unless you fancy giving all temperatures used in real life in a range of about 270-310, then you accept that logic isn't neccesarily helpful.
but Fahrenheit is more arbitrary than celsius, which uses the temp between water freezing and water boiling, whereas fahrenheit (i think) just uses some values that some guy came up with some day.

Yeah. Our standard unit of distance? The length of some English king's foot. From working with the other system in chem, it's waaay better. The US is just stupid like that.

Anyway, I don't have an experience like that. My friend was hit by a car mirror in sixth grade, though. (In the face... messed up his braces and everything)

 

[meatloaf231]

I once went to the ER because I had a fever of 42C. That's pretty close to dying I suppose.

edit: That's 107F for those of you who use Fahrenheit... Down with Fahrenheit, it makes no sense.

Hear hear!

Well, aside from the time I fell down some stairs into a cactus, I did almost get hit head-on by an oncoming car going about 120 KPH.

 

[YouGetWhatsGiven]

I was in the ocean in a kayak. A wave hit me and and flipped me over. I was trapped under the kayak ( some straps had gotten tangled in my legs), and I could not breath. I stayed like this for about twenty seconds, till anouther wave hit me and pushed me onto shore. It was very frightening.

 

[xXGeckoXx]

I once went to the ER because I had a fever of 42C. That's pretty close to dying I suppose.

edit: That's 107F for those of you who use Fahrenheit... Down with Fahrenheit, it makes no sense.

All hail Celsius...

Ouch 42 is the verge of fatality point.

 

[Flap Jack452]

Track practice was pretty brutal today...

 

[Stevato]

Him: *pulls out a gun* "You better get the fuck back inside, and not move until I'm gone. Or do you want to die today?"

Jesus tittyfucking christ man, thats sounds insane, that must of been real scary.
Well done on trying to play the Hero though, i respect that sot of behaviour, me and alot of others

Anyway, my own experience, i was 4 and rode a quad bike into a truck, it wasnt the actual accident that me contemplate an early exit on life, but it was my dads truck... and i left a dent, i found that more life threatening

 

[TheRightToArmBears]

Did a jump on my bike, realised half way through the air that it was HUGE and I couldn't possibly land held on.... landed but my forks snapped and I went over forwards and my head went into a tree. Always wear a helmet kids! Else I'd be dead.

 

[DangerChimp]

First, can the fucking nerds in here please start a separate thread if they want to argue about Celsius versus Fahrenheit?


Back on topic, I was heading to cross the street in my city's financial district on the way to work, but as I got to the intersection, I saw a cop telling people to pick a different route because chunks of ice were breaking and falling off the skyscrapers around us. Just as he finished explaining this -- he was standing about 10 feet in front of me -- a melon-sized brick of ice smashed directly in the space between us and chunks went flying into nearby cars, but missed me and the cop.

Had I been standing a couple feet closer, I wouldn't be writing this right now.