Holy Crap! That Was Close!

[Danny Ocean]

I am a very lucky person. I'll list my fortunes later, but for now, I'd like to ask for your stories of close shaves and narrow misses.

Only stories of good fortune, please. Let's get some Escapism into these forums!

Anyway, here's a list of my good fortunes:

Spoiler: In spoilers if you don't want to hear me brag! :P

I am the youngest of 3, and one is my twin. Both of my brothers have genetic disorders (Fragile X.) This is very lucky for me, since I really should've been messed up, too.

I was born at 28 weeks and wasn't dead.

When I was very small I suffered from a punctured lung. I was rushed to the S.C.B.U., where they very quickly sowed me up after reviving me. Then I died again (pain in the ass that I was.). So they un-stitched my side, then did it properly. I was in hospital for 6 weeks on 3 doses of a certain drug a day. I can't remember what it was called, but it cost £2000 a pop. I can't hate the NHS whenever I'm reminded of that.

I was the passenger in a car crash on the motorway at 90mph, and the air bag didn't go off.

 

[slayermaster]

i dodged a truck. then 2 days later hit a parked car, ha ha ha ):

 

[Easykill]

Those all seem like things caused by bad luck though... Does it really count when it's just not as bad as it coulda been?

Things tend to work out for me, and i have an uncanny ability to "Call" my luck, so when things don't go well for me I'm usually prepared. None of your kind of stuff though. My dog found and led my parents to me when I was freezing to death?

 

[KiiWii]

M62, ran across after my girlfriends dog, dodged traffic (somehow), had no shoes on, cut on my foot got infected, in hospital for a while. =]

 

[Jovlo]

An ambulance once missed me by a hair.
Even if it had hit me I would have been lucky.

Edit:
I once went on a vacation to Austria with my grandparents when I was 3 years old.
We went hiking in the mountains and my grandfather was pulling me on a sled.
On the way down, he slipped on ice and let go of the rope.
I went down the hill fast, towards a ravine.
Our guide sprinted after me and managed to stop the sled about two meters from the edge.
Could have gone very bad.

 

[MSORPG pl4y3r]

One time in my room I stood up too fast and fainted, I'm geusing from where I was standing to when I woke up i just missed the corner of my desk. Another time I was up in the midle of the night sneaking around, I was only up for a drink and it was compleate darkness and out of nowhere I felt a sharp pain on my fore head, I had walked into the corner of a shelf and it hit me right above the eye, like an inch away, if I wasent crouching then I'd only have one eye right now. I think I'm pretty lucky besides.

 

[rottenbutter]

I was dropped on my head when I was a baby, and didn't get so much as a scratch.

 

[Bocca]

So hows it like to be dead ? In my life theres nothing really memorable but when I think of some of my mountain climbing. woaah.. That was way too close. I could have easily died there with a simple slip.

 

[Vlane]

When I was only 3 weeks old I was very sick and I almost died because of it.

At least that's what my parents told me.

 

[Danny Ocean]

So hows it like to be dead ? In my life theres nothing really memorable but when I think of some of my mountain climbing. woaah.. That was way too close. I could have easily died there with a simple slip.

Strangely, no craving for brains...
Yeah, I've head some stories about that. We always wore harnesses, but the instructor told us some horror stories about slippery slopes and crumbling cliff faces.

Those all seem like things caused by bad luck though... Does it really count when it's just not as bad as it coulda been?

Well yeah, if it's alive as opposed to dead. Or not crippled instead of crippled.

 

[gigastrike]

...i cut my finger once...

 

[gaara9999]

when seven hit by a ford fiesta while crossing a road it was terribly embarresing as it was a bad car why cuddnt it have been a buggati veyron or koeinsegg ccx?

 

[Danny Ocean]

When I was seven I was hit by a ford fiesta while crossing a road. It was terribly embarresing as it was a bad car, why couldn't it have been a buggati veyron or koeinsegg ccx?

Because no-one can afford those cars! They cost so much!

Although that would be one hell of a way to go.

 

[jasoncyrus]

When I was seven I was hit by a ford fiesta while crossing a road. It was terribly embarresing as it was a bad car, why couldn't it have been a buggati veyron or koeinsegg ccx?

Because no-one can afford those cars! They cost so much!

Although that would be one hell of a way to go.

Also it would've turned you into street grease...if you sruvived he'd probably sue you into financial oblivion for wrecking his $1.5million car.

as for near death experiences...

On my third round of the "Croop" (chest infection thing) I almost suffocated because my airways closed up so much. Although aside from that I'm pretty durable.

 

[Zersy]

I am a very lucky person. I'll list my fortunes later, but for now, I'd like to ask for your stories of close shaves and narrow misses.

Only stories of good fortune, please. Let's get some Escapism into these forums!

Anyway, here's a list of my good fortunes:

Spoiler: In spoilers if you don't want to hear me brag! :P

I am the youngest of 3, and one is my twin. Both of my brothers have genetic disorders (Fragile X.) This is very lucky for me, since I really should've been messed up, too.

I was born at 28 weeks and wasn't dead.

When I was very small I suffered from a punctured lung. I was rushed to the S.C.B.U., where they very quickly sowed me up after reviving me. Then I died again (pain in the ass that I was.). So they un-stitched my side, then did it properly. I was in hospital for 6 weeks on 3 doses of a certain drug a day. I can't remember what it was called, but it cost £2000 a pop. I can't hate the NHS whenever I'm reminded of that.

I was the passenger in a car crash on the motorway at 90mph, and the air bag didn't go off.

i crashed into a thornbush (THE HUGE GIANT ONES LKE 6 FEET TALL!!) with my bike and had places of mine which are inportant to any man seriously .........
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Hurt thats the smart way to put it

 

[54r93]

I was dropped on my head when I was a baby, and didn't get so much as a scratch.

Your picture begs to differ...

 

[Cid Silverwing]

I once faceplanted into a tiny silo full of glaciers and suffered brutal cuts right above my right eye and above my chin when I was a kid. Scars are still there.

Once I had surgery to remove a birth-old tumor from my head (left side). Left the balance nerve crippled but, unlike another individual who received an identical surgery, I didn't lose any IQ.