The Biggest Bullet You've Dodged In Your Life That You Thank The Heavens For To This Day? /AskReddit

redditors what's the biggest bullet you've dodged in your life that you continue to thank the heavens for to this day didn't lend money to a friend because I was broke few months later he disappeared with several thousands he had stolen from my other friends my college girlfriend was a solid 10 out of 10 and great in the sack everyone thought we would get married but I never felt like I could trust her she never cheated on me it was just intuition I broke up with her when I graduated and everyone thought I was crazy she ended up marrying a guy who was rich they went on vacation in a foreign country which shall be nameless and she put drugs in his luggage he got busted at customs and spent a couple of months in jail while he was in jail she liquidated everything and took every ducking penny this guy had eventually the police got involved and they got her on tape admitting the frame and other things she spent some time in jail he rebuilt his life and he's doing okay now but it took years to get back on his feet I'm keeping it vague because the news reports are still out there we were all set and ready to put an offer on a house did the paper work with the realtor signed the check put down the offer the realtor was super pushy but the room was 90 degrees and we weren't thinking straight after signing the papers we go to see the house again with my in-laws and notice a ton of issues we hadn't seen before got really anxious big issues like plumbing a huge wraparound deck that needed work etc but we were stuck now got a call the next day from the realtor saying that we never signed the bottom of the offer paperwork and can we please come sign it right away we decided not to and are going to wait a bit and do this smarter next time don't rush when buying your first home folks edit this was the very first step in the process prior to any inspection or anything so by not having signed the offer we didn't end up wasting any money the choice a stay in a dead remote town of 600 people because I liked but did not truly love the woman I was with after the shop I worked at closed down she had a good income Merce did not want to move and was fine with me earning less developing my own business interests or be break it off and moved to a huge city and roll the dice I chose me and my girlfriend ended up fired for drug abusers stealing them from work I never suspected she was doing that but she was making Bank on selling what she stole and I had an awesome time in Montreal was in vadas during the concert shooting we arrived a couple of days prior and the stage where it happened was already set up every time we passed by the stage my dad kept telling me we should go there looks fun while I was in Vegas we went to a Golden Knights game and plan to go see what that stage was all about afterwards I was so tired during the game that I could barely keep my eyes open might have noticed and told me we would go to the hotel to sleep instead of the concert buying the wrong house put an offer on a house that needed some work offer was refused house sold a year later for $100,000 less than my offer bullet dodged bullet dodged by you bullet consumed by the house sellers got offered my dream job running an offshore aquaculture facility had to choose between the job and my significant others future long story I reluctantly declined the job a few months later I heard the facility was dealing with a serious disease issue and had no chance of being sustainable had I taken the job I would have most likely been single living in a tiny seaside [ __ ] town the job would have sucked and I would have only worked there for max three months before the place shut down was walking outside and thinking about how my class just went look down and another step in front of me is a completely uncovered open unprotected manhole I'm certain if I'd have maintained my path I'd have fallen to it I nearly got my wallet stolen while at Berlin I had no clue about the amount of guilt trippers who try to trick people into pulling out their wallets however my friends who travel way more than me were there to yank me out of this situation and explain it to me I dated a girl for about three years I decided to leave because I thought she was gonna get me in trouble turns out I was right we were teenagers and experimenting with drugs anyway she wasn't happy about me leaving and reported me to the police for giving her drugs a good lawyer and 18 months of probation saved me from doing 5 to 99 in prison for distribution the bullet hit you partially but you are still alive I didn't understand how tickets worked there was a fee and a court date and I assumed I had to go to court that day and pay it there missed the court date went to the district attorney's office and she looked right my 17-year old ass and said is what I'm going to do I'm going to reduce your speed I'm going to completely ignore the fact that you were out after your curfew I won't have a warrant out for your arrest and you'll just have to pay a large fine this is an almost literal get-out-of-jail-free card don't waste it I wanted to hunt her through the glass and I don't think I said thank you enough my appendix exploded one Hospital rejected me and told me to go home and use some low key painkillers got driven to another hospital immediately rushed for an operation if I spent another day at home I would have died I could have also ended up with a major scar from my ribs to the lady parts so lucky but sue shook I dated a girl in high school who was super Christian and very much into purity culture every conversation we had somehow wound up back at how she wasn't going to have X until marriage I was extremely lonely and was just happy to have someone who said they cared about me so I didn't mind she dumped me our freshman year of college we went to the same school since she didn't get into the prestigious Christian College she wanted about a month later one of her friends called me and wants to talk I'm glad she did because it gave me some closure as it turned out my now ex was getting spit-roasted on the regular by most of the cooks at a job plus her boss and many others turns out she was dating me to maintain her country Christian girl image everything that came out of her mouth was a lie and everything that went into it was a donk she ended up married to meth-head ex soldier who threatened to kill me if I ever contacted her again I hadn't talked to her since we broke up now she's a single mom who works as a waitress and sells MLM crap while posting about how much she loves Jesus years ago I had an ex-girlfriend that cheated on me constantly due to lack of self esteem / confidence I would always take her back and forgive her after what seemed to be a particularly final breakup she asked to come over I was reluctant but said yes when she arrived she tried to seduce me and I just wasn't having it so I kicked her out a week later I find out she was pregnant this wasn't confirmed but I firmly believe she was aware of the pregnancy and was trying to rope me into believing it was mine by having ex with me that night although I'm sure I would have found out it wasn't mine the emotional turmoils from something like that would have been devastating moral of the story think with the head on your shoulders not the one in your pants death twice first time I was 21 and was having stomach pains like screaming in sheer agony type stomach pains but I didn't think it was anything crazy I've always had stomach issues finally after a couple of days I went to the ER and that had to do emergency surgery found out I have diverticulitis and one of the nodules had popped spilling violent to the rest of the stomach and had infected my appendix as well doctor said I had about 12 hours left to live second time was this past year around the scars from my diverticulitis surgery I had developed a hernia they weren't a bother for the longest time but finally late last year they started hurting each time I went to the hospital they were able to calm my body down and then pop a bigger hernia back in and I was good to go until the last time mid May surgeon came in and said we are doing surgery now to fix this good thing too because he found some intestine had gotten stuck and was getting strangled and was dying said I was probably about a day or two away from having all sorts of problems if not straight out death I hate my stomach and it hates me it's a tie between leaving Barcelona a few days before the van attack given the location of the attack I most likely would have been there had I agreed to my parents suggestion to stay a few more days in the city post summer school or the tinder date I almost went on in Shanghai got to the metro station and was met by a guy who asked me if I was hunter here to see the girl if so she's inside the bar follow me I said something hurriedly to him in Russian shrugged my shoulders and walked away from him as if I had somewhere to go I once slipped on ice and into the street right after a truck went by I had stopped to pick up my phone moments before if that didn't happen I'd be a flapjack right now there was a bad windstorm in 2008 in Cincinnati Ohio that came from a hurricane Cincinnati is actually in the Ohio Valley which means it doesn't typically get that windy it was my future father-in-law's birthday and we were trying to make it over to their house for lunch only five minutes away the main road is blocked by police cars as trees and powerlines had fallen no worries I'll take the back way I go a little further and have to turn around because another tree had fallen and blocked both sides of the road I turn around and go another direction I get to the end of the street and can go either left or right the left is blocked by a cop car and another car just turned around so I'm going to go right it's a three-way stop and I stopped first I started to and the car on my left who just turned around wasn't stopping and ran the stop sign I was frustrated but heard a creaking sound a 25 foot plus tree fell with a trunk perpendicular to where me and my now wife were sitting covering all windows with branches we crawl out of the car and notice the tree itself is only being held up by stretched out powerlines if those powerlines wouldn't have held a tree we would have been crushed without a doubt we just celebrated our ninth wedding anniversary and have four beautiful children but it all could have ended that day TLDR a tree fell on my car at a stop sign but we were saved because powerlines caught it I was born addicted to crack PCP and alcohol during the peak of the crack epidemic in Los Angeles hours later I went to a foster family who loved me unconditionally and provided me with a normal and stable home today I'm a successful educator working on a doctorate and healthy as can be obviously that could have gone very differently I've built my career in creating programs for foster youth to successfully reach their educational goals and I see firsthand everyday what happens when you're not handed that the golden ticket of a good foster family I almost got into a relationship with a lady divorcing her husband that had two children the kids were fine but she never really wanted to leave him despite everything that she said she just wanted to get from me what she wasn't getting from her marriage and me I was just being strung along thank God I got out of all of that I got divorced after nearly 18 years of marriage under our state alimony laws I would have needed to pay her 30% of my before-tax income for nearly fifteen years there's an exception however if she remarries all lives with a partner then she gets no alimony while the divorce proceedings were going on I learned that my ex I was living with a partner be posting about it on Facebook and see had not made a facebook private thank God because that enabled me to very quickly and easily prove that my divorce should involve no alimony I had a job I hated it paid alright commute was reasonable I was good at it the work itself was great but management were complete our souls with so many positive I was scared of leaving I did not know if what I found next would actually be better or just different problems I realized that I was a miserable person at home too that's when I realized that I had to leave luckily I took the leap my current job certainly has problems and bad days but nothing like that last one when I was really young I was fresh washing my driveway with my dad my dad was watching the whole time but he had to go do something else so he turned off the washer and said not to touch it stupid bastard me didn't listen to him and didn't appreciate the actual power of these things so anyway I turned it back on when he left and ignored his instructions it suddenly cut out I had no idea why and I was freaking out as to why it was only pushing out a tiny trickle of water and that my dad would be mad I was trying to fix it and I remember looking down at the nozzle I remembered this years later as how dangerous it was I was essentially holding a misfired gun with a barrel right at my eye I am so so so damn lucky that thing didn't go off for whatever reason so lucky back in my heyday of being bullied it all came to a climax for seventh grade that is still got bullied pretty hard after law I was walking home from school with some people that were in my grade I approached the stop sign waiting to pass as there were cars still going when my whole body was thrown into the street a school bus was screeching to halt but not fast enough I could see the distance closing in and all I had was pure instinct I used that push that made me fall under momentum with it to force my body to move out of the way as I rolled onto my feet I could feel the burst of wind behind me and smell the burnt rubber the kid got a 2-day detention and I well I'm here I guess so I dodged a huge bullet in that sense a girl liked me in eighth grade but I thought she was just a friend plus my buddy liked her we had a genealogy project in civics class and we learned that we were cousins instantly clicked with this girl on a dating app we chat every day for almost two months finally met her in real life turns out she was a single mother of more than six kids and had the nastiest car I've had ever seen I gave up on counting how many used cigarette butt filled Starbucks cups were in the backseat sitting on a bench in the front of a store my GF at the time had bought three things hair dye a bottle of liquor and a pregnancy test depending on the results of the test either she'd be dyeing her hair and I'd be getting drunk or she'd be dyeing her hair and getting drunk she got wasted that night bullet dodged

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Published: Mon Jan 13 2020