Right that's it Death ~ I win

[K'Ehleyr]

So I've been in my own Final Destination movie this week ~

Saturday I was gassed by my fridge (ok maybe the hammer had something to do with it), Monday son plugged ipod charger in to cause sparking and fusing of the electrics and possible fire and today a lorry and car very nearly ended up on top of me.

Walking back from shopping today a car pulled out right ~ and I mean directly ~ in front of a lorry coming in my direction. I understand now when they say you see it in slow motion. I saw the car at a side road waiting to turn right, I saw the lorry coming and thought by the time I get there I must walk around the back of this car and then saw the car inch out.
Thought "No, no" then as I saw it pull out screamed "NO! Oh my God" and waited. The lorry driver threw on the breaks and swerved into the pavement towards me to avoid the car that had pulled out, then his eyes met mine and I watched frozen as he came to a halt, with chaos behind him.
He pulled up and opened his door to teach the car driver some more French, and I mouthed 'Are you ok?' He nodded, in a slightly stunned fashion and gestured 'You?'
I nodded and carried on walking (we are British, it's the polite way to deal with a near death incident!), it was only 20 yards on that my legs went to jelly, a huge need for a cigarrette and a large vodka overwhelmed me and I realised what could have happened.

I'd like to say I'm not going to leave home because it's too dangerous but it would seem staying at home is scarey too!

So that's my 3 attempts I reckon ~ Death can bugger off now!

Anyone else had other close escapes ~ apart from the plane one

 

[Capn Flukie]

I went hiking once at Plotterkill Falls with my friend John one winter back in the 80s. We we hiking through the woods, there was deep snow, but the top layer was coated with ice. We just punched our way through, crunching through the ice layer. I got distracted by something, and didn't kick down hard enough and my foot slipped on the ice, the rest of my body followed. I was on a slope, and started sliding down it quickly on my back. After a minute I was able to grab a tree, just as my legs went over the edge of the cliff with about a hundred foot drop below, nothing but rocks in the stream bed below. I would have easily been killed.

 

[thestrangequark]

I've had a few close calls. When I was 12 my blood sugar dropped to 12. I was unconscious and cleverly revived with a cake decorator's tube of frosting. Last February I fell ill: I lost 7 lbs in one day, and after that day of vomiting, finally asked my roommate to take me to the hospital. I was tachycardic and severely dehydrated when I arrived, and was told that had I come just an hour or so later I would likely have had to be intubated and had a through line put in my neck. As it was I was in ICU for 3 days.

 

[Shatmandu]

I fell on my keys once.

That's about it.

Joe, man of action

 

[Jetfire]

I have had a few car accidents and close calls...I don't know why I am not dead.

 

[JuanBolio]

Don't worry, I'll get you in the end. I'll get you all.

 

[Mallory]

I've had cancer twice and a transplant. But I'm sure something will get me eventually.

 

[JuanBolio]

I've had cancer twice and a transplant. But I'm sure something will get me eventually.

Drop bear out of nowhere, age 67.

 

[the 4th hanson bro]

I've had cancer twice and a transplant. But I'm sure something will get me eventually.

An angry husband perhaps?

Or an exploding styrofoam rock?

 

[Lindley]

Hope I don't trip over a brick. That'd be embarrassing.

 

[Adagio]

My resting heart rate went from 57 to 209 when I had a massive panic attack. I thought I was going to have a heart attack. That's some serious fear right there!

Doing better now. That was back in 2000.

 

[RobertVA]

About thirty years ago I was driving on a two lane road when a car traveling in the opposite direction about three feet over the other lane passed me.

 

[ShamelessMcBundy]

I almost got side swiped by a giant MTA bus, and a Chevy Suburban on the way home today. Oh, actually, also by a Ford Crown Victoria, so i was almost involved in 3 car accidents today.

 

[JuanBolio]

About thirty years ago I was driving on a two lane road when a car traveling in the opposite direction about three feet over the other lane passed me.

Had a similar experience once on Lolo pass on the Montana-Idaho border. I was in the outside lane of the pass when a truck towing a horse trailer came around the bend going the opposite way, doing about 60 mph several feet into my lane. On the other side was a thousand-foot drop with just enough wooden guard posts to launch me into the air on a decent trajectory, not enough to bring me to a stop. Truck and trailer passed within inches of side-swiping us and killing me, my brother, his wife, and my nephew, and giving us time to think about our fate on the way down.

To my knowledge this is the closest I've ever been to death.

 

[Pingfah]

I've had cancer twice and a transplant. But I'm sure something will get me eventually.

An angry husband perhaps?

Or an exploding styrofoam rock?

I watched that episode for the first time just the other day, asssuming you are referencing what I think you are.

How did all those people live for thousands of years without getting killed by a plant, or ever treading on any of the multitude of exploding rocks everywhere?

 

[cultcross]

^ Shirt colour.

 

[JuanBolio]

^ Shirt colour.

Indeed. Every year I get Kommander a red t-shirt.

Every year he burns it and yells at me.

 

[Pingfah]

^ Shirt colour.

They weren't wearing shirts

 

[RJDiogenes]

I've fallen off a cliff, nearly gone through the fence on an icy bridge in my car, been knocked down by a bus, nearly flattened by a truck, stabbed in the hip in the Combat Zone and almost eaten by a Goose. Plus, when I worked in Boston, I had a near-death experience on the roads practically every day. When I was a kid, I thought I was immortal-- now I'm convinced of it.

 

[FreddyE]

Almost eaten by a goose? Care to elaborate? O_O