Right that's it Death ~ I win
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Goofy British-speak for truck.
Note on RJDiogenes' goose story: Read the "attacked by a duck" thread for this and other harrowing bird-related tales
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Last night: Tractor-trailer, speeding, ran a red-light and whipped it around in a u-turn nearly taking out me and cars on both sides of the road. How he didn't jack-knife I'll never know, cause that trailer was swinging like crazy but it stayed and he just kept his foot in the gas.
Life timer average...about 9 or 10 times.
Life timer average...about 9 or 10 times.
Taxicab.
Me, I personally have never really come close to death, I'm just constantly worried about it 'cuz I am a total hypochondriac, I mean we are talking the Reginald Barclay level.
Taxicab.
Me, I personally have never really come close to death, I'm just constantly worried about it 'cuz I am a total hypochondriac, I mean we are talking the Reginald Barclay level.
No, as Trekker pointed out a few posts back, a lorry is a truck. I don't speak Brit but I can read and write it fairly fluently.
I almost fell down a cliff one time. I don't know if I would have been killed since it wasn't absolutely perpendicular but...I don't know, it was perhaps 50 feet deep and there were a lot of rocks in the bottom. I was just a little kid, maybe 5, my family and I were on a hiking trail, we got to a part that was really narrow and difficult to walk on, and so Mom told my younger sister and me to "Sit right here and don't move - I'm just going to walk a few yards that way. Sit there. Don't move."
I moved. I was sliding off the path and about to go over when I caught hold of a bush. My mother, showing an amazing turn of speed, zipped back in time to pull me up. I don't remember being even a bit scared, but I expect it was quite a while before Mom trusted me to "sit right there and don't move."
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I've nearly fallen off a mountain twice during my teenage years, once in the thick fog and once in the snow.
Aside from that, I've also nearly been run off a motorway by mad lorry drivers. The most recent time happened only last Saturday: I was about to leave the motorway, just as roadworks with a 50mph had begun on the road, when a white lorry driver flashed behind me as I observed the new speed limit, then proceeded to drive on my outside (which was the hard shoulder - at this point marked by traffic cones) and very nearly cut off my exit at the junction. The other time was about a year and a half ago when I was being overtaken by a red lorry driver trying to play games with me during a 50mph stretch of motorway, to the point of almost running me off the road.
Also, back in 2007, I very nearly laughed myself to death watching a YouTube video.
Aside from that, I've also nearly been run off a motorway by mad lorry drivers. The most recent time happened only last Saturday: I was about to leave the motorway, just as roadworks with a 50mph had begun on the road, when a white lorry driver flashed behind me as I observed the new speed limit, then proceeded to drive on my outside (which was the hard shoulder - at this point marked by traffic cones) and very nearly cut off my exit at the junction. The other time was about a year and a half ago when I was being overtaken by a red lorry driver trying to play games with me during a 50mph stretch of motorway, to the point of almost running me off the road.
Also, back in 2007, I very nearly laughed myself to death watching a YouTube video.
All of us that almost fell off a cliff should get the Lil Jimmy Kirk merit badge or something.
I told you to bugger off ~ you had 3 chances!
Thanks for stories, I am not planning on hiking or mountain climbing but I did manage to drive to town without incident today
Bonfire night tonight ~ will be avoiding all fireworks and bonfires and staying inside with my cat!
Yeah, I got my screen name from The Apple.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?
Just a few of the "close calls"
-- When I born, I had health issues and wasn't expected to live. In fact my mother's OBGYN refused to sterilize her cause if I died she might want to have another, since "it wasn't like she really would have had a chance to bond with me"-- thanks doc ~middle finger to the dead bastard~
-- Around age two a variant of bird flue. Nearly died
-- Breathing issues off and on my whole life.
-- Grandmother bashing in the windshield of the car I was in and attempting to kill me with a tire iron cause I "had the devil in me". I had turned 1 a few weeks earlier.
-- Lungs shut down in the middle of the night, saved by the family dog that bit and clawed my mother till she woke up and got me breathing again.
-- Various car accidents.
-- Last major car accident I came the literal "inch" of being killed. Seatbelt broke and wrapped around my upper body, I went into the windshield as the engine was coming into the passenger compartment, the seatbelt jerked me the side and I missed either having my neck broke, being crushed by the engine, or both by just over a inch.
-- When I born, I had health issues and wasn't expected to live. In fact my mother's OBGYN refused to sterilize her cause if I died she might want to have another, since "it wasn't like she really would have had a chance to bond with me"-- thanks doc ~middle finger to the dead bastard~
-- Around age two a variant of bird flue. Nearly died
-- Breathing issues off and on my whole life.
-- Grandmother bashing in the windshield of the car I was in and attempting to kill me with a tire iron cause I "had the devil in me". I had turned 1 a few weeks earlier.
-- Lungs shut down in the middle of the night, saved by the family dog that bit and clawed my mother till she woke up and got me breathing again.
-- Various car accidents.
-- Last major car accident I came the literal "inch" of being killed. Seatbelt broke and wrapped around my upper body, I went into the windshield as the engine was coming into the passenger compartment, the seatbelt jerked me the side and I missed either having my neck broke, being crushed by the engine, or both by just over a inch.
Exactly.
Note on RJDiogenes' goose story: Read the "attacked by a duck" thread for this and other harrowing bird-related tales
I told you to bugger off ~ you had 3 chances!
Thanks for stories, I am not planning on hiking or mountain climbing but I did manage to drive to town without incident today
Bonfire night tonight ~ will be avoiding all fireworks and bonfires and staying inside with my cat!
Excellent!
Means you'll be at home for the lightning strike and i won't have to go looking for you.
I stuck my arm through a window pane once. Severed a tendon and nerve, came within millimeters of chopping through an artery. Apparently I ran round the house yelling "sh*t, f*ck, boll*cks!" at no point did I actually yell "help". 
The bedroom looked like someone had been murdered.
The bedroom looked like someone had been murdered.
I don't know how close I would have been to dying, but I collapsed a number of years ago after a game at the bridge club. I was in the bar with friends, going over the evening's hands, when I started feeling unwell. I said, "I'm just going to the washroom to splash some water on my face," and the next thing I heard was a paramedic saying, "Okay, we can move him now - his blood pressure's up to 80 over 40." I spent the night in ER, but they never did figure out what was wrong.
I've had multiple near-fainting spells over the last nine months or so as well, but haven't lost consciousness. Just after one of them, my BP was measured at 90 over 50 and they detected a heart arrhythmia. They finally figured out what was causing it - I have a genetic condition called hemachromatosis, which causes my liver to retain excess iron. Apparently it often gets misdiagnosed as anemia, and when people start taking iron supplements, it messes them up even more. Fortunately, my doctor told me to wait while they ran further tests after the first one came back suggesting anemia.
I've also encountered drivers at times who don't know how to deal with pedestrians. I used to work in a town north of Toronto where drivers would routinely leave parking lots without looking both ways - they would make sure there were no cars coming in the lane they wanted to turn into, and then they would pull out suddenly and just miss hitting me as I approached from the opposite direction. Where I work now, the drivers are slightly better, but only just. I can only suppose that it's a symptom of living in a city that has no culture of routinely taking public transit - if you don't drive, you don't matter.
Oh, and this afternoon I almost got run over by a woman in an electric scooter. I was running to try to cross the street before the light turned red, and she made a sudden turn right in front of me. I nearly went ass-over-teakettle over the front of the scooter. I suggested that she invest in turn signals.
I've had multiple near-fainting spells over the last nine months or so as well, but haven't lost consciousness. Just after one of them, my BP was measured at 90 over 50 and they detected a heart arrhythmia. They finally figured out what was causing it - I have a genetic condition called hemachromatosis, which causes my liver to retain excess iron. Apparently it often gets misdiagnosed as anemia, and when people start taking iron supplements, it messes them up even more. Fortunately, my doctor told me to wait while they ran further tests after the first one came back suggesting anemia.
I've also encountered drivers at times who don't know how to deal with pedestrians. I used to work in a town north of Toronto where drivers would routinely leave parking lots without looking both ways - they would make sure there were no cars coming in the lane they wanted to turn into, and then they would pull out suddenly and just miss hitting me as I approached from the opposite direction. Where I work now, the drivers are slightly better, but only just. I can only suppose that it's a symptom of living in a city that has no culture of routinely taking public transit - if you don't drive, you don't matter.
Oh, and this afternoon I almost got run over by a woman in an electric scooter. I was running to try to cross the street before the light turned red, and she made a sudden turn right in front of me. I nearly went ass-over-teakettle over the front of the scooter. I suggested that she invest in turn signals.
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