The "oh s@#$" thread

[Unknower]

I was skiing from school at a ski centre. One of my classmates then suggested that we'd go one slope down through a forest route. I then followed him to that route. There's a sudden one metre fall at one point. I didn't know that. Also, it was behind couple of trees so I couldn't see it beforehand, though even if I had seen it, I probably wouldn't have managed to slow down. Suddenly realizing I'm in air in a forest with lots of trees nearby (duh) and tree roots on the ground was kind of a "Oh shit" moment.

Fortunately, I succeeded in not falling and evading the trees and roots.

 

[TopRopePiledriver]

Tripping forwards whilst walking down a flight of stairs, only to find my hands snugly and tightly tucked into my pockets. I don't think its possible to go from a state of serene calmness to abject, testicle-tightening fear in a shorter amount of time!

 

[HuntingWolf_01]

playing resi 4 and hearing the regenerators breathing

 

[Downside]

sitting in the back of my brothers car as we go down a hill at 50mph in the wet. My brother had only been driving 2 weeks and thought it was a good idea to go heavy on the brakes.

So hurtling towards a lamp post at 50mph with nowhere to go and no way to avoid it was my oh s**t! moment. In fact it almost seem to happen in slow motion.

needless to say i've never got in his car since

oh yea this is my first post.

 

[poleboy]

Crashing one of those off-road go-cart-like things they have in some amusement parks and landing with my face a few inches from the still (fast) spinning wheel and the engine still running.

Tumbling about 100 feet down a very steep hill covered in prickly vegetation.

Almost getting run over by cars and bikes on numerous occasions.

 

[Espionage Caterpillar]

This month was the first time I tried skiing. I was on my way back to the lodge where I was staying, pushed off and began to ski down the small but steep hill. Right about where I'm supposed to stop I find my legs won't obey and after narrowly missing several rocks I finally find myself lying on my back in the car park, to one side of a white 4WD.

 

[Saskwach]

Realising I have a 3000 word essay due tomorrow

I regurgitate 3000 word essays every other day; want one?

My moment was when I realised I wouldn't ski pleasantly into the right angled-turn that led to a path bordered by a wall of snow and a slope 70 degrees to the horizontal. The wall was not on my side.

 

[Espionage Caterpillar]

Yeah, I think the "Oh Sh*t" moment for skiing is simply "Sh*t. This really isn't as easy as everyone makes it look." Ski bunny? No thank you.

 

[Handofpwn]

Mine is when I had to turn into a gas station from two lanes of traffic over, two days after I got my license.

 

[Flour]

When I realized that the snowmobile wasn't going to stop before it hit that tree. Or when I realized that trees don't get out of the way.

In a game of chicken against a tree, the tree always wins.

Not if I have anything to say about it...

That's what someone in the village I used to live said a few years ago.
Of course, that was days before he decided it would be a good idea to launch himself with 50mph against a tree. The tree won, and he died seconds after hitting the tree because his ribs tried to escape his body by burrowing through his lungs and heart.(no, not a snowmobile, it was a quad I believe but I'm not sure that's the correct English word for it, just image search for it on google and you'll find what I mean)

 

[electric discordian]

When I looked in the mirror and realised Im fat, bald and I wasnt In Kansas anymore. (Not that I have ever been!)

Realising that the entire world is full of people seeking to screw you.

 

[Shirahime]

Figuring out that one day in the near future, I will become a crazy spinster cat-lady with a penchant for Jacobs Creek chardonnay.

Also I just figured out that what I typed then has already happened.


Urgh...

 

[SmugFrog]

Realising that the entire world is full of people seeking to screw you.

You got plans for friday night?

 

[SmugFrog]

...crazy spinster cat-lady with a penchant for Jacobs Creek chardonnay.

Also I just figured out that what I typed then has already happened.

Like the one off the Simpsons? Cause I would pay money to see something like that in real life.

 

[Shirahime]

Like the one off the Simpsons? Cause I would pay money to see something like that in real life.

The crazy woman with mad hair that screams whilst washing her cats?

Yep. Except I have one cat that attacks children, plumbers and boiler repair men. But I plan on getting more. Cats I mean.

 

[Cyclomega]

Realising that the entire world is full of people seeking to screw you.

You got plans for friday night?

Why wait ? let's go tonight !

Shirahime> funny, I have cats that could as well be little girls taking candy from strangers after school, they'd play with anyone who enters the house...

 

[Shirahime]

Cats are amazing.

Another "Oh S**t" moment was when my cat got stuck up a tree for 3 days. But a really high one she was about 40ft up. I went up a big extenable ladder to try and get her down but she climed further up. She was about 70ft up then so me and me dad ended up belting the tree with the back-acter on the JCB to shake her out.

Sounds kinds cruel but the fire brigade couldn't have done anything and we didn't have any other means of getting up there.

 

[TheMadDoctorsCat]

Well, my gaming one would have to be playing having a system shock 2 bender all freaking night and then trying to function the next day without constantly looking behind me to see if an infected suicidal zombie was about to attack me with a sawn-off shotgun.

But other than that, nearly getting crushed by a massive glass sliding door that popped out of its frame and started to fall on top of me. I just managed to take the weight of the thing on my shoulders and was practically bent double while I tried to move it and myself so that I could let it go safely. There was no chance of putting it back, it was far too heavy for me to lift (I was twelve or thirteen at the time I think).

 

[BaronAsh]

Watching a car get destroyed from a lightning strike.

 

[Sir Broccoli]

When my brother almost got crushed by a truck. He was fine but his bike was completely flattened.
It really scared the hell out of us.