Real Life "Oh Shit" Moments.

[Nazulu]

When Big Bang Theory comes on after something else I was watching just finished. Hehe, could be.

The most common one for me when I see a thread about religion or something similar if even whispered could start an inferno.

 

[Yan007]

That one time when I studied extremely hard for this linguistics class and knew the subject as well as my teacher. Got into the exam room, filled the paper, left.

Realized next morning there were 2 sides to the paper and I missed 75% of the questions.

That other time when the teacher told me I still passed because he grades on a bell-curve and my 25% were 100% correct, which gave me the highest grade in the whole class.

 

[adamsaccount]

A week after passing my driving test i managed to skid my car into a hedge. Doesn't sound like much but and I managed to get it out I had that "oh shit im going to die, this it it adam better repent" feeling, or more exactly "FUUUUUUUUUCK".

 

[blink]

"Dude, did you do the homework?"

"Oh SHIT!"

 

[HoneyVision]

When the cops were handcuffing me on the highway, I kept thinking "Fuck, this is not good". I truly thought I was gonna end up doing years in prison.

Or when I was slicing a tiny lemon with a brand new knife and it slipped and dug halfway through my index finger, all I kept thinking was "Fuck fuck fuck fuck...". Then my mother came down the stairs with methylated spirits...and it all went downhill from there.

 

[HoneyVision]

"Dude, did you do the homework?"

"Oh SHIT!"

haha been there, done that.

 

[x EvilErmine x]

Well, there was that fun time I got to choose between hitting oncoming traffic, a tree, or the 6 year old kid who just ran out into the street...

This, well sort of,

Driving along and these two Chav girls just decided to walk out in the middle of the road. Seriously, they looked, saw cars coming along and just thought 'fuck it, I don't care' and walked out. I had to slam on the brakes, stopping about 2 inches from the girls and causing the bloke behind me to go into the back of my car and the car behind him to smash into the back of his.

Worst part? The girls crossed the road, saw the carnage that they had caused and stared pointing and laughing. I have never felt rage like I did that day.

 

[Fijiman]

The only case I can think of is when it had been raining most of the day before and I looked outside and saw that my car's windows were open.

 

[Calibanbutcher]

Oh man do I have a few of those.

Biggest one would be the time I was in a heated argument with some other kid (we were around 13ish at the time) about some bullshit that is too stupid for me to ever admit.
All normal so far right?
We progressively got more heated until we were shouting and threatening each other.
Still normal I say.

Then he pushed me and as I was about to retaliate he pulled out a knife.

Now I didn't go "Oh shit" then. No, my mind didn't have thoughts for a few seconds after I saw the knife.

Then came my thoughts of "Ohshitohshitohshitohfuckshitohshitfuck" etc.

Wasn't the first time someone pulled a knife on me (though I'd like to think I'd go Oh shit no matter how often it happened) but it was the first time someone had done it purely from anger and it was the first time I 100% believed the person was going to stab me to death.

Please tell me it was about something completely insubstantial?
Just because that makes this absurdity even stranger.


On topic:
On the first day of the year I lost control of my car, due to ice etc, causing me to crash it into the traffic barrier.
No-one was hurt and the car was scheduled to be junked the next day anyways, so there wasn't even any financial loss, but DAMN, did I suffer a fucking OH SHITSHISHITSHIT moment.

 

[Mullac]

When I was about 12 years old I was in the Scouts, and on this one camp I decided to chop some wood for the big fire we had and well...I nearly dug the axe into my thigh.

I had finished chopping and swing down on the chopping board (which was a huge stump) but I didn't notice it was rotten. The axe when clean through it and brushed the side of my leg.

I stood in fear for a few seconds and had to look down very slowly to see if there was any blood. There was not.

 

[Shadow-Phoenix]

FOr me the biggest oh shit moments were two less painful accidents:

One time going into my garage and standing on a rusty nail that went clean through my entire foot, to which I never felt any pain or anything but a cold feeling until I looked down and saw what had happened.

It was removed within 10 minutes and luckily nothing bad had happened afterward and the wound healed within a week which was pretty awesome.

The second was when I had accidentally dropped a glass of orange juice onto my right bare foot by accident which had un turn sliced open my right toe which at the time was really painful and I couldn't do sports in high school for at least two months but in the end there was no scars or long lasting damage.

Now I look back on the times I'd injured myself I still tend to think I'm really lucky to have a threshold for pain tolerance and quick healing.

 

[knight steel]

Two words:Elephant stampede
Basically was at an Elephant reserve [overseas] I was about I don't know 10 or so walking up to an elephant to pat it,elephant freaks almost squash me,picked up and carried of by the handler.

 

[Beffudled Sheep_v1legacy]

Oh man do I have a few of those.

Biggest one would be the time I was in a heated argument with some other kid (we were around 13ish at the time) about some bullshit that is too stupid for me to ever admit.
All normal so far right?
We progressively got more heated until we were shouting and threatening each other.
Still normal I say.

Then he pushed me and as I was about to retaliate he pulled out a knife.

Now I didn't go "Oh shit" then. No, my mind didn't have thoughts for a few seconds after I saw the knife.

Then came my thoughts of "Ohshitohshitohshitohfuckshitohshitfuck" etc.

Wasn't the first time someone pulled a knife on me (though I'd like to think I'd go Oh shit no matter how often it happened) but it was the first time someone had done it purely from anger and it was the first time I 100% believed the person was going to stab me to death.

Please tell me it was about something completely insubstantial?
Just because that makes this absurdity even stranger.


On topic:
On the first day of the year I lost control of my car, due to ice etc, causing me to crash it into the traffic barrier.
No-one was hurt and the car was scheduled to be junked the next day anyways, so there wasn't even any financial loss, but DAMN, did I suffer a fucking OH SHITSHISHITSHIT moment.

I'll be honest.
It was about a pair of new sneakers. Like seriously, no word of lie.
We both got some new kicks but of different brands and he started talking shit about mine and then I started to talk shit about his and it escalated.

Yeah. I know. I'll go hide in a corner of shame now

 

[The Funslinger]

Oh man do I have a few of those.

Biggest one would be the time I was in a heated argument with some other kid (we were around 13ish at the time) about some bullshit that is too stupid for me to ever admit.
All normal so far right?
We progressively got more heated until we were shouting and threatening each other.
Still normal I say.

Then he pushed me and as I was about to retaliate he pulled out a knife.

Now I didn't go "Oh shit" then. No, my mind didn't have thoughts for a few seconds after I saw the knife.

Then came my thoughts of "Ohshitohshitohshitohfuckshitohshitfuck" etc.

Wasn't the first time someone pulled a knife on me (though I'd like to think I'd go Oh shit no matter how often it happened) but it was the first time someone had done it purely from anger and it was the first time I 100% believed the person was going to stab me to death.

Similar situation, except rather than an argument between peers, it was a mugging.

I was stabbed in the leg. *****-ass didn't get my wallet, though.

I was crossing a road, when some old lady in a (parked) car started her engine, and regardless of me being right in front of her shot forward, and came within inches of slamming into me. Someone needs their license revoked.

Then, I remember when I was a kid, the mother of all fights broke out. Like... an outdoor riot. I was pretty much separated off from anyone who might help me, surrounded by people who decided they then all had some kind of personal beef with me. Got bum rushed by half a dozen or so people, and forced to my knees. Unfortunately, this was during a non-uniform day. Why is this unfortunate? Because two people held me down while the others whipped me with those big-ass pocket chains. Then there was the time I was tied to a tree and beaten with wooden stilts. The time I was assaulted en mass by every boy in my year and the years above me, including my supposed best friend.

Yeah, come to think of it, my school life was full of 'oh shit' moments, because for some reason after my sisters and their friends left the school, I became public enemy number one.

 

[Beffudled Sheep_v1legacy]

Oh man do I have a few of those.

Biggest one would be the time I was in a heated argument with some other kid (we were around 13ish at the time) about some bullshit that is too stupid for me to ever admit.
All normal so far right?
We progressively got more heated until we were shouting and threatening each other.
Still normal I say.

Then he pushed me and as I was about to retaliate he pulled out a knife.

Now I didn't go "Oh shit" then. No, my mind didn't have thoughts for a few seconds after I saw the knife.

Then came my thoughts of "Ohshitohshitohshitohfuckshitohshitfuck" etc.

Wasn't the first time someone pulled a knife on me (though I'd like to think I'd go Oh shit no matter how often it happened) but it was the first time someone had done it purely from anger and it was the first time I 100% believed the person was going to stab me to death.

Similar situation, except rather than an argument between peers, it was a mugging.

I was stabbed in the leg. *****-ass didn't get my wallet, though.

I was crossing a road, when some old lady in a (parked) car started her engine, and regardless of me being right in front of her shot forward, and came within inches of slamming into me. Someone needs their license revoked.

Then, I remember when I was a kid, the mother of all fights broke out. Like... an outdoor riot. I was pretty much separated off from anyone who might help me, surrounded by people who decided they then all had some kind of personal beef with me. Got bum rushed by half a dozen or so people, and forced to my knees. Unfortunately, this was during a non-uniform day. Why is this unfortunate? Because two people held me down while the others whipped me with those big-ass pocket chains. Then there was the time I was tied to a tree and beaten with wooden stilts. The time I was assaulted en mass by every boy in my year and the years above me, including my supposed best friend.

Yeah, come to think of it, my school life was full of 'oh shit' moments, because for some reason after my sisters and their friends left the school, I became public enemy number one.

God damn man! After all that you must be one tough son of a *****!
Sorry to hear all of that still :/

 

[Malty Milk Whistle]

Cliff walking in the middle of the night, the moon was full and we were in a rural area, so light wasn't too bad.
An unexpected sea storm on the other hand....

We had to hold on the the cliff face for dear life for the better part of half an hour.

Wasn't fun.

 

[The Funslinger]

Oh man do I have a few of those.

Biggest one would be the time I was in a heated argument with some other kid (we were around 13ish at the time) about some bullshit that is too stupid for me to ever admit.
All normal so far right?
We progressively got more heated until we were shouting and threatening each other.
Still normal I say.

Then he pushed me and as I was about to retaliate he pulled out a knife.

Now I didn't go "Oh shit" then. No, my mind didn't have thoughts for a few seconds after I saw the knife.

Then came my thoughts of "Ohshitohshitohshitohfuckshitohshitfuck" etc.

Wasn't the first time someone pulled a knife on me (though I'd like to think I'd go Oh shit no matter how often it happened) but it was the first time someone had done it purely from anger and it was the first time I 100% believed the person was going to stab me to death.

Similar situation, except rather than an argument between peers, it was a mugging.

I was stabbed in the leg. *****-ass didn't get my wallet, though.

I was crossing a road, when some old lady in a (parked) car started her engine, and regardless of me being right in front of her shot forward, and came within inches of slamming into me. Someone needs their license revoked.

Then, I remember when I was a kid, the mother of all fights broke out. Like... an outdoor riot. I was pretty much separated off from anyone who might help me, surrounded by people who decided they then all had some kind of personal beef with me. Got bum rushed by half a dozen or so people, and forced to my knees. Unfortunately, this was during a non-uniform day. Why is this unfortunate? Because two people held me down while the others whipped me with those big-ass pocket chains. Then there was the time I was tied to a tree and beaten with wooden stilts. The time I was assaulted en mass by every boy in my year and the years above me, including my supposed best friend.

Yeah, come to think of it, my school life was full of 'oh shit' moments, because for some reason after my sisters and their friends left the school, I became public enemy number one.

God damn man! After all that you must be one tough son of a *****!
Sorry to hear all of that still :/

Well, the stabbing was only a couple of years ago, but other than that, things have improved drastically since I was a kid.

I'm hoping to put my freakishly high pain tolerance to use in the Royal Marines in a few years, though

 

[lokicdn]

Nine years old and I didn't know that imflammable and flammable meant the same thing. Boy did that pink insulation in my parents basement burn fast. Sitting was optional for a couple days.

 

[CrimsonBlack]

I'm not a huge risk taker, so I don't often find myself in situations where my own actions are about to screw me over prison-style. The last time I can really think of when I just completely screwed the pooch was almost 2 years ago when I was in my navy training school. I had overslept the week before because I turned my alarm off and immediately fell back asleep. No big, shit happens, the navy understands that. But then exactly one week later, I did the exact same thing AGAIN (which I was pretty mad at myself for because I rarely make the same mistake twice, especially so quickly). Yea... my instructors were a tad less forgiving that time. It was not a fun day for me.

Are you still in the navy? I was considering joining the navy but got talked out of my by a friend whos sister tried to join, and apparently she said it was quite terrible.

Which country's navy? If it's the UK Royal Navy I can give a small insight if you like.

 

[antidonkey]

I definitely had an "Oh Shit" moment right before I rear-ended an SUV while riding my Harley. I had another about 15 minutes later when I took a good look at my wrist and knew it was broken from all the swelling and odd angle it was currently in. I had a third about an hour - hour 1/2 later when I tried to walk to the back of the ER and couldn't really walk. Not a very fun experience but I'm eager to have my ride returned to me. I miss it.