How close have you been to death?
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Originally Posted by TPot
Me and my other cousin were playing monopoly.
I was three, and he was four. And I DOMINATE at monopoly.
Needless to say, I won. But I wouldn't be the winner for long, he decided. So he grabbed a phone (keep in mind this was 15 years ago, so not a cordless one, a BIG ASS METAL FUCKING PHONE) and proceeded to try and smash my head with it. My dad speared him and beat his ass (not really, I mean, he was only four, but when your about to smash your sons head with a big ass phone, it's what you do). Anyway, nothing more exciting that.
I guess the moral of the story would be DONT FUCK WITH ME AT MONOPOLY, OR YOU WILL GET YOUR ASS BEAT.
lol only if your dad is there to spear the next guy attempting to bash your skull in!
When I worked for Comcast, I would drive about an hour to work, early in the morning, and since I dont sleep, I would catch up on a bit of sleep while I drove to work. I cant remember if I told this story or not, but.. I woke up going uphill in the left lane. And there was a semi barrelling down towards me at about 45mph, about a second and a half away from smashing into me. So I calmly checked my blind spot and scooted back into my lane. I didnt even blink. Thats whats sad... Ive come close to death so many times and escaped, that it doesnt even phaze me. I shit you not, my heartrate didnt even raise, I checked.
Another time I was driving my little 5-speed down a twisty backroad with my friend Marky. We were coming up on a nice little left, right, S turn. As I entered the first turn, a guardrail was on my right side, and I looked ahead and noticed a F-350 barrelling around the first turn from the opposite direction. I could already tell the fucker was gonna cut the corner and end up in my lane. It took about a twentieth of a second for me to do the calculations: if I slammed on the brakes there would absolutely be a head-on collision, and there was a guardrail to the right, so I dropped down two gears and sped up so that I could make it past the guardrail and swerve off the right side of the road with about 6 inches to spare between my rear bumper and the guardrail, and another 6 inches away from colliding with that F-350. I only skirted off the road enough to not get struck, then was right back on, driving as if nothing happened. Marky and I looked at each other, shook our heads, and that was it. Didnt even say anything, didnt blink, we didnt react in any sort of manner other than for me to speed up and swerve off and on the road.
In another thread I mentioned changing lanes at 120mph... same little 5-speed Escort, I was real late for work, so I was pushin the car as much as I could, and as much as traffic would let me. Well MD Rt. 4 is a hellaciously annoying fucking road to maneuver on during rush hour, theres only two lanes, and it goes from the bottom of Maryland, straight to the White House. So... yeah. Its a well traveled road.. anyway Im always getting pissed off at the fuckers who stay in the left lane and hold up like 3000 cars behind them. In fact, we wont even get into the magnitude of hatred I have for those people. Anyway there was an asshole going 55 (which was the official speed limit, but pretty much any speed limit in Maryland, add 8-10 and thats the real observed speed limit. Ive passed cops going 65 in a 55), with like 10 cars behind him, but he was coming up to the car in the right lane going about the same speed. I wasnt waiting... I drafted the car ahead of me for a second, dropped it into 3rd, and popped into the right lane, getting up to 115-120 in a couple seconds. I was coming up to the car ahead of me pretty quickly, and the car in the left lane was closing the gap. I went all the way to the right side of the right lane, and jerked the wheel left then right as precisely as I could, skidding right between the two cars, with much less than a foot to spare on either side. My car skidded in the left lane at about a 15 degree angle for about 2 seconds, then the wheels caught and I was gone.
Too many instances... and what bothers me, is I dont even get that little rush anymore. The one you get when you know you almost died, but you survived... that surge of adrenaline that makes it worth it. Im so jaded, I am robbed of that one minor pleasure.
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2 times where i could have died. Praise
How close have you been to death?
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Originally Posted by happiestmferoutthere
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How close to death did you come??!!
i was in a coma for like 3 hours
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well i tend to get a little crazy with cars and i have a little bit of disposible income so having a car smashed up is still a big deal but not that big where i worry about it all the time. so i was driving my little mazda6 going like a bill 25-30 on a two lane highway and some dumb kids decide to cut across the semi ahead of me and keep in mind this only took like less then 2 seconds to happen but i was passing a car in my right lane to cut in front of it then pass the semi but they cut the semi off and it braked and i braked as fast as i could but i guess it wasn't fast enough and i slammed into the back of the semi...the only thing saving me from getting decapitated was this little guard underneath the semi. i walked away with not a whole lot of injures just some back problems. thank god for 5 point seatbelts and airbags.
i got robbed at gunpoint for a ounce. who the hell does that?
i flipped a snowmobile going 80 and somehow managed to jump off midair and just layed there for a few minutes wondering if i was hurt then when my dad walked over by me i just got up and looked around and was like wow im ok he said it looked like i planned it by the way i jumped off.
umm my friend crashed a car when i was in the passenger seat when were all drunk and otherwise messed up and running from the police into a telephone pole and hit it so hard it knocked over. again thank god for airbags and seatbelts.
oh and don't play with guns. ima leave it at that.
last one i can remember- i was goin stupid again in a audi A6 on a country road and i was going like 80 or 90 and some old lady decided when i was like a few yards away from her drive way that it was a good time to pull out in front of me while a truck was coming the other way, so i dropped down a gear and barely made it passed her while missing the truck by under a foot.
theres more...almost all of them involve cars but i can't think of em right now.
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When I was really little and learning how to swim I thought I could swim just fine on my own and swam away from the group when the instructors were busy. I swam out way over my head and couldn't make it back. I sunk to the bottom of the pool and was down there for a while trying to hold my breath. I was starting to black out when an instructor saw me an pulled me up.
Another time I was climbing a huge uprooted maple. and one of the branches gave out and I crashed through many branches falling. When I landed I was ok but noticed my head landed less then a foot away from a sharp broken larger branch that could have easily impaled my skull.
Another time I was driving with my freind and we were rounding the corner of an intersection and a F350 comes speeding through the intersection going about 75mph... my friend by chance...managed to stop at just the right second and we luckily only impacted against the tire of the truck as it passed... it blew out the windsheild and ripped off the bumper... a split second later it would have been my door taken out and my life.
I had an alergic reaction to an anesthetic they gave me during a procedure once.. I was told they had trouble getting me to wake up and remain conciouss and while I was awake I got violently sick and wasnt aware of what was going on, like a horrible trip.
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I don't know if I've almost died.. I could now be closer to death right now than I ever was and I'm just sitting here.. I've had some of the above conditions, but I cannot surely say in hind sight that I almost died; although at the time I probly felt different.
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I was in a car wreck last year. My arm went through the little vent window and car rolled over on it. It was cut off about halfway between the wrist and elbow except for the skin on one side. I was trying to keep pressure on it because when I didn't about a half a coffee cup of blood came out every time my heart beat. And we're out in the country like 15 miles from the nearest hospital and if I pass out I was gonna bleed to death for sure. I only remember parts of it, but I still have a phobia about riding with anyone.
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When I was about 5 I went unconscious after being held underwater for too long during a stupid game we played in the pool. I was revived after about an hour or so..woke up in a chair with like 20 ppl staring at me. chlorine can give u some massive headaches
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How close have you been to death?
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Originally Posted by tootsie roll
Wow. I almost forgot about almost being road kill once when I was little and not too bright.
I am so glad you are healthy now. I remember how bad you were feeling not so long ago.
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Aw thanks! How ya doing? :)
I'm feeling great now! To think a year ago, I was undergoing chemotherapy *shivers* I'm glad that's all behind me!
