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what was the biggest bullet you dodged a few years ago i had pneumonia but my whole family insisted that it was just post nasal drip which runs in the family after a week or two i woke up in the middle of the night when i couldn't feel my arm after i got to the ear the doctor said that it was the worst he'd ever seen and he was surprised i wasn't dead i had three pounds of mucus cut out of my lungs and another two weeks in the hospital siphoning out the rest for three months afterwards i could barely walk half a mile without starting to pass out and i still can't run for more than 200 to 300 yards without collapsing many years ago my flight had just landed at chicago o'hare and the plane was taxiing when the pilot suddenly slammed on the brakes people were literally thrown forward against the seat in front of them a few seconds later another plane taking off i think went screaming by right in front of us no explanation was given though our imaginations provided a lot of gory details around 30 000 pounds i was driving with my wife in town one snowy evening and we had pulled up to a stoplight i happened to glance up at the rearview mirror and saw a city bus heading towards us and rotating sideways i hit the gas and pulled our head into the intersection and left into the turning lane and less than a second later the bus went sliding through right where our car was it came to a stop on the other side of the intersection and fortunately didn't hit anything but one second or two feet difference and we would have had some nice spindle injuries my dad was a truck driver in the oil field in canada he worked a lot of long hours and every single day so on weekends he would bring me and my younger brother on some of his jobs we were on location and my little brother three years and me ten years were waiting for him playing in cab of truck my little brother opened the passenger door and my little arms closed it job's done we start our trek home going about 35 km hr and the door flies open and i get sucked out of truck i remember doing about 10 backflips as i tumbled out hitting the ground on my back a few times and rolling my way to a stop i stood up before the truck was even stopped in absolute shock next thing i see my dad looking for me and he burst into tears first time i ever seen him cry i'm 33 now and he still won't talk to me about it luckily the rig was in a farmer's field so when we were leaving i landed on softer dirt not a single scratch on me dad thought he ran over me with trailer don't think we ever went to work with dad again i work for the company now as a kid after running errands in town with my mom i was climbing into the back seat of our family station wagon a semi-truck hits a power line pole down the street causing the still live wire to fall bounce off the roof of the car and hang across the open door just a foot or two above my legs raised catholic i wondered for a while after if i had actually died that day and that the rest of what i thought was my life was my purgatory a friend had lost his job under suspicious circumstances a few weeks later he asked me to take him to the bank as i got near to pick him up i caught a train he called to say never mind he would get someone else a few days later a friend sent out a message to a large number of our friends this guy lost his job and was running a check cashing con can you cash this check for me i'll pay you fifty dollars if you do the check is five hundred dollars he has no backing funds you eat the whole amount he did this to several friends in a few day to amass a few grand and was about to skip town when the cops got him not me but i had a field service engineer working on one of my big robotic liquid handlers he decided to bypass the safety pin that prevents the heads from moving while the cover is open while he had a diagnostic program cued up on the computer what he didn't know was that the instant he re-inserted the safety pin the machine would execute the cued instructions and start moving and he had a hand inside it right in the danger zone i grabbed his shoulder and yanked his hand out an instant before it was crushed he stopped ignoring me when i told him to stop bypassing safety lockouts to save a few minutes my newborn needed to be rushed to a super high level naku to be put into a state of induced hypothermia because he only had hours before he would suffer permanent brain damage i live in a small town in the middle of nowhere the small town next door just barely upgraded their hospital to have that hypothermia suite one of only a few in texas he's doing great no sign of any damage i stayed up all night before a day trip to hong kong you know that days when you haven't slept you're just kind of robotic and doing the human stuff nearly zero awareness of anything well i went across the street and my friend behind me snatched my shoulder and yanked me backwards just in time to feel the whoosh of a double decker bus breezing past us i just looked at him like oh thanks man and it took a whole extra minute for my brain to process i would be [ __ ] dead had he not grabbed me was going to move to a different apartment complex last month got injured at work and lost hours therefore couldn't come up with the deposit money in time last week the machad was cooking meth and caught the building on fire edit read my username my current apartment complex is notorious in my city for having elevated troubles so in reality username does check out also you could say i dodged two bullets point one the fire too i know bad stuff happens everywhere blah blah blah but the new place really didn't strike me as the kind of place where meth heads live so i guess avoiding those kind of people for neighbours was dodging a bullet in itself i survived a rocket attack that landed about 10 meters from me very close to where we were standing we were so close to the launch site that the warning alarm came after the rocket had already impacted thankfully we were able to dive under a vehicle for some shelter and the three of us made it through unscathed had a teacher in high school who was wicked sarcastic and witty while also being a hard-ass grader to me the perfect teacher class was challenging but we were all laughing and having a good time he was a great mentor and i continued to visit his class even after i graduated one time post graduation i was sitting in his office and i had just given him some art to decorate his classroom with and he was so excited he blurted i could kiss you something about the intense eye contact unsettled me but i laughed it off 17 why slasher girl what can i say couple months later he was arrested for having a sexual relationship with an underage student i interviewed for a job that i wanted desperately in august 2019 after the initial phone interview i went in for an in-person interview at 4 p.m on a wednesday i had a rejection in my inbox by 8 pm and was completely gutted then 2020 happened and they laid off 60 of their staff and will probably go under i'm thankful for that rejection every day when my great aunt passed away i was helping to clean out her house i'm just dragging everything out of the basement and suddenly my dad is like whoa put that down gently and let's move away from here so i put the weird metal tube type thing i'm carrying down and get out of there turns out it's a mortar shell from when my aunt worked in a munitions factor during wwii bomb squad came and took it away my mother left me in one state and went back to my abusive stepfather she tried to get me to drop out of my senior year at hs move back to their state and just get my jed they wanted a live in babysitter cook and made i was so lucky my grandparents let me move in with them and finish school edit thanks for all the love guys for those who have asked i'm doing great i've gone no contact with my mother and stepfather they are still together and it's been one of the most healthy decisions i've made my husband and my kids are amazing and she's missing out big time my grandparents are alive and well and are still involved in our lives freshman year of college i had a calc class it was material i had learned before but for various reasons they didn't give me transfer credit so i skipped class quite frequently though i usually slept in one morning i find myself awake at 8 30 and not really feeling like sleep might as well check in on the class and see what's going on it was the midterm exam [Music] getting chased by someone with a knife across my apartment i closed my door at the right moment so that person ended up stabbing my wooden door instead the mark was there until i left the apartment a few years later as a constant reminder of what could have been [Music] at 17 y show i met and married a sweet little north carolina daddy's girl had i not i would have still been hanging with my friends that just discovered heroin of the three friends two are dead and one did 10 years in prison almost proposed to a girl who had been cheating on me with a pile of [ __ ] that called himself my best friend this was years ago and i'm getting married at the end of the month to the love of my life life has a way of working itself out i had a cardiac arrest about four years ago dropped dead ash in the middle of my shift found out after i woke up about a week later that a the manager who saw me fall was a former lifeguard and new proper cprb an ambulance happened to be passing about two blocks away see probably the best cardio unit in my state was a 10 minute ambulance ride from where it all happened walked out of the hospital about two weeks later full recovery my dad was going through severe depression 10 years ago and my life was equally shitty for a whole multitude of reasons and it was rubbing off on me i spent what felt like half an hour crying on the floor and working up the nerve to pull the trigger then when i finally did the safety was on i sold my gun the next morning wish my dad was able to say the same three years later r.i.p a literal police car the police were chasing someone and i was crossing the road and my dumbass was walking slowly and the police car nearly grazed me look both ways and take off your headphones when you cross the road kids studying video game development in college reading about the standard of living for those people and the horrific abusive practices in the industry made me realize i was totally right to just go with electrical engineering my great-grandfather was in the merchant navy in the war he was in the engine room at the bottom of the ship and his friend came down to take over the shift early minutes later a torpedo struck and everyone at the bottom of the ship couldn't escape and died my great-grandfather would've been one of them otherwise then he was in the sea for a while and happened to be picked up by some portuguese fishermen who saved him then all part of the same tale he escaped death again he was meant to be on a flight back to the uk but got kicked off last minute to be replaced by vips that plane got shot down and everyone died in it miss you great grandparex edit thank you for all the appreciation i'm so glad to be able to share his story 7.92 moors a rifle bullet when i was 15 i shy was very depressed and got very drunk found my great grandfather's wwe captured german rifle found some bullets from that time loaded it and put the rifle in my mouth and pulled the trigger thankfully the bullet was not loaded properly slash was a dud for being 90 years old at the time and did not fire literally i was walking back to our barracks in afghanistan talking with my peers and my staff sergeant we get to on part my staff sergeant grabbed my collar and pulled me back right there was a run exploded 40 millimeter grenade projectile from a launcher sitting where my my foot was about to land big yikes four christmases ago i was in mexico with mom dad and brother doing some last minute shopping at the local walmart we finished our shopping and went to the car as soon as we were leaving two trucks stopped right in front of the main walmart entrance they were a cartel and were hunting for the son of one of the opposing cartels main dudes they fired a [ __ ] bazooka i think they got the guy and then bullets started flying everywhere my dad was driving he hit the gas we almost crashed cause there was panic everywhere and we had a red light the military showed up while we were driving away and a chase ensued luckily we were close to the house where we were staying and made it back quite fast we heard gunshots for the next three hours dodged some bullets and even a missile that day so about 20 something years ago i was on my way to an interview through a suburb of washington dc that particular road has you driving at a not so slow speed with no shoulders and sidewalks with many pedestrians a woman standing on the sidewalk stepped backwards into the roadway just as i was approaching slammed on the brakes honked and she turned slightly i stop and get out and she's rolling around clutching her foot wailing about her foot getting rolled over my heart is hammering i have no idea how much trouble i'm in and my brain is ticking away the time to the interview pedestrians kept coming up to her to tell her that they saw me run over her foot duh of course you did after a few minutes of this the woman stood up said merry christmas it was definitely nowhere near christmas and walked away through the people standing there i took my dodged bullet with much appreciation got in my car and drove away i didn't get the job fw iw but a couple of inches in my life could have changed for the worse in so many ways my first husband and i were separated he showed up at my apartment building unannounced and someone let him in because they recognized him from when he lived there he wanted to come upstairs but i met him in the lobby instead where there were cameras and other people he had never been violent towards me but it didn't feel right to allow him into my space he asked me to go for a drive with him and i refused i offered to help him get help mental health issues that he refused to treat he declined and drove away he was missing for a few days but turned up several states away visiting a friend a few days after that he took his own life using a handgun we found out later that he'd purchased the gun here and headed straight out of town when i refused to get in the car with him to this day i'm thankful that i never got in that car with him he'd never even talked about buying a gun before i had no idea he was armed who knows what would have happened five of my buddies in high school invited me to go cruise around the back country roads because we had nothing else to do as jeans in iowa i was getting ready to go and then decided i just was gonna stay home that night instead well i'm glad i stayed home because their truck rolled several times after sliding out on a gravel road there was a couple in the bed and they were ejected one lost his left nut one ended up in a coma one ejected through the windshield and the rest had several broken bones and concussions they all should have died and i'm very grateful they didn't but i'm also grateful i chose not to go not me but we were at arches national park once one night there was a lightning storm the next day we were talking to a park ranger and she told us that during the lightning storm there were people hiking back from delicate arch a guy on the trail was hit by lightning stopping his heart right behind him on the trail we are two nurses who immediately started cpr a minute or so later a cardiac surgeon hiked up and started working on him they saved his life my ex-girlfriend that i had been planning to propose to a couple months ago she cussed out my 11 year old daughter accused her of trying to break us up never apologized and then stole our one-year-old puppy and immediately blocked me on everything depression is a [ __ ] but i thank the creator daily for whoever was looking out for me on that one nearly died in a car accident about a month ago i was extremely shaken up at first and in shock for a few days but after talking to the psychiatrist there about it i realized that if the guy driving hadn't crashed the car i would have been raped by him i told him i wanted to go home but he said my apartment first before driving off and then we crashed probably the biggest bullet i've ever dodged even if it resulted in internal bleeding my dad grew up in safford a rural town in southeast arizona back in the 1930s kids there got their first 22 caliber rifle at age five or six he and a friend found an old wwi helmet and my dad suggested he put on the helmet and ricochet a bullet off it to see what it would be like his friend took aim but before pulling the trigger said benny put the helmet on the fence post there to test it first the bullet went straight through both sides of the helmet if my dad hadn't dodged that bullet i could not tell that story last year i was cut from the aa hockey team that i usually played on every year because of a scheduling mishap with my lacrosse teams tournament so i ended up playing late that year that year a girl gave almost everyone the flu they didn't make it to provincials citizen or even make it past semis in a tournament also the three imports really good players from different leagues invited to play made everyone on the team's season hell because of their entitled attitude and costing games by taking stupid penalties while i had a fun team experience with a group of great girls went to kill myself by putting a plastic bag over my head and tying it off figured it would be less messy to be found my cat started going crazy on the other side of the door when i started to get lightheaded and feel sort of nauseous i thought oh right you need your dinner and no one else will feed you and i am tied the bag to feed the cat after the fact i realized my cat literally saved me from one of my lowest points god i miss that cat still can't believe i came that close side hurt and was throwing up went to hospital with my mom who is a nurse they said it was my gallbladder and they could schedule surgery in two weeks mom threatened them not a karen thank god and they found time for the following day turns out it was gangrene and did not contain gallstones but rather only one stone the size of a baseball a one-hour surgery lasted three plus hours and a two-day convalescence turned into two months broke up with an abuser he told me he wanted to marry me all the time but he never asked and he never produced a ring thank god he did get married and so did i but i still worry about his wife even though i have no real connection to her drove for about 800 miles without ever realizing that the loud click grinding noise i was hearing was a fried wheel bearing mechanic said i was incredibly lucky not to have lost the wheel while driving i found a new job boss seemed nice in the interview started working and right from the start people weren't comfortable talking about the job and you could literally smell the fear also there was very little work to do point my direct colleague was sick and they wouldn't give me her phone number i wanted to discuss a few things strategies to move forward but everyone kept dodging giving me her number after two days i found i had a headache going there which got worse during the day so i quit company doesn't exist anymore i guess you can't run a job agency without customers and everybody just pretending to work i was living in paris during the fall of 2015 for my semester study abroad in college my apartment was right by republique and every friday night i had a standing reservation at le petit cambodge a local cambodian restaurant that had the best wake up at 2am dreamworthy noodles queue november 11th my best friend who was studying in scotland calls me crying that they've been dumped and was hoping i could come for the weekend i was a little reluctant because i had wanted to go to the eagles of death metal concert at the bataclan that friday but hadn't gotten my tickets yet so said shaw and booked a flight for that friday afternoon november 13th when i landed and made it to their apartment after we went out to dinner i turned on my phone to hundreds of messages turns out both le pettit cambodge and the bataclan had been targeted by isis and there were more terrorist hits going on in my neighborhood the best thing my friends x did was dump them otherwise i would have been either a dinner or a concert and more than likely wouldn't be here to write this was dating this guy for four years from my sixteens to twenties we were looking to buy an apartment and to get married when he broke up with me he said he was in love with somebody else because she has a nice body he always called me fatty and how much weight i gained and when i told him i was gonna lose weight if he would go grow some muscles at the gym he said that i was the only one who needed to work out anyway i was so devastated i cried for so long i was awful fast forward five years nothing in my life is bad but nothing is good just same old same old i found an exchange program that i could actually afford i move from brazil to us i travel to so many places i prove myself so brave i discover so much about myself and then i meet the love of my life he was here waiting for me we are happily married building our life together and he treats me with respect love like a queen and we have a puppy now and we are planning for the future and i'm just so happy i can't believe i almost didn't have this and him when i was 15 i'm 16 now i was being manipulated and lied to by a 20 year old man for sex i brought the topic on reddit so people could give me their opinion and a random ready to help me snap out of it a few weeks ago i talked to the 20 year old and i then completely understood that he just saw me as a walking hole to stick his dick in once in my early twenties i ran into a crazy ex-girlfriend at the bar she really wanted to hook up that night and i really wanted to but i just started seeing someone new and declined then she basically started begging to go home with me and i just had a really bad feeling about it it started to get a little weird but the night went on and we went our separate ways a couple weeks later she called me crying saying she had no one to go to and asked if i could give her a ride to the abortion clinic so i did cause i knew she needed help but i instantly knew if i went home with her that night she would have told me it's my kid she tried to trap me my ex she turned out to be crazy literally not the kind of crazy label angry [ __ ] women get but actually crazy she ended up in a state mental hospital for at the very least one year mandatorily but while we were together she threatened to kill herself if i left multiple times she broke into my apartment and forced me to let her stay the night and cuddle her wouldn't let me sleep fun fact she cheated on me and gave me gonorrhea i'm stupid for not leaving her beforehand and just reporting her to the police but that was the final straw the bullet i dodged i didn't get her pregnant thank god back in middle school my friend and i would ride our bikes home every day one day he was being a jerk so i left without him turns out he got hit by a car luckily the car barely clipped his bike so he got away with a broken leg if i was there i would have been riding behind him taking the full force of the car i then 18f met someone through a dumpster fire of a skype chat group she basically said the others were losers but hey let's be friends a week or so later she asked me out i said no but she laid the pressure on thick begging me whining saying it would mean the world to her i decided there was no harm in trying on day three she said she loved me i panicked said it back not sure what standard protocol was as this was my first relationship on day four i realized i wasn't gonna get feelings any time soon and broke things off she threatened suicide i left anyway few days later she sends a previous sex of hers to apologize on her behalf the x and i discuss what happened and the ex tells me the same thing happened to her only she fell for it and things got bad the whole skype group knew but they thought our mutual partner had gotten better since then last i heard she finally got kicked from the group after years of preying on insecure newcomers in the 80s my family was traveling through the colorado mountains we were traveling down a steep run between two semi-trailers the front carrying steel beams and the back uncut timber logs my dad suddenly got really nervous later telling us he heard god slash a voice yell for him to get out of that lane now he pulled into the middle lane and started to pass the semi about 10 seconds later the back tractor smashed into the trailer in front still don't know if his brakes gave out or if he fell asleep but had we stayed we would have all died in a crushed van cube my dog took it for me catahoula leopard slash pit mix both known for their pain tolerance took two bullets one through his cheek exiting through his jaw the other through his chest and out of his armpit didn't drop didn't even whimper just kept going he's a [ __ ] tank has saved me both mentally and physically in life he's perfectly fine made a solid recovery after tearing his stitches out multiple times from jumping on the couch you'd never know i will forever be in debt to my dog and he can do whatever he wants when people talk their dogs up about how tough and loyal they are i sometimes struggle to keep my mouth closed my ex-husband and i started talking about having kids well at the time i was on that horrible birth control called yaz remember the class action long story short it made things a little difficult getting pregnant fast forward to a few months later and i find some girls panties in our apartment moved out and started the divorce sure enough he knocked up his girlfriend and ditched her when their kid was only a year old the guy was such a loser dodged a bullet on that one didn't happen to me but my sister's ex-husband he served in the marines one night in afghanistan he and his squad meds were awoken and told that enemies were seen nearby and were to go check it out they searched the area on foot where they were last seen and it's still late at night nothing was found they went back to their base and went back to sleep well in the morning they had other soldiers check it out turns out that enemies were indeed there at some point and multiple ied land mines were found with soldier footprints all around them it was my ex-brother-in-law's and his squad's footprints and they managed to somehow miss every one of them i was running late for class one day and had to park in a different parking lot because of that instead of walking to campus i took a shuttle since this lod was further away after class a friend of mine who i would have typically walked back to the parking lot with got hit by a stray bullet in the shoulder while walking back to his car in the parking lot that i would have been in if i was on time he had to have surgery and there was a short recovery period but he was fine i have a tendency to think that had i been walking with him i could have gotten hit or he could have been hit in a different spot it wasn't far from causing major damage to begin with or our other friend with a blood clotting disorder could have been hit or something worse i caught some serious charges two years ago when i was addicted to and selling drugs wholesale made deals with an undercover cop by a dude who set me up saying it was his dad got charged with selling mdma cocaine adderall and lsd i lived in flagstaff where meth is being cracked down on if the cocaine i had contained any meth at all very common when buying off the street i would have been sentenced around 45 years in prison at 19 years old luckily i got a great lawyer got the charges reduced to possession and i'm now 11 months sober and i'm up for early termination on my probation in five days me and a friend were bartenders years ago there was this absolutely beautiful woman that always came in that we clicked with but she was for the longest time dating what can only be described as a thug a couple months passed and they didn't come around then i'm off my birthday weekend and run into her she was out celebrating being single with a few friends our part is merged and we hit it off pretty much spent all weekend together but both realized outside of mutual attraction there wasn't much there between us i tell my buddy and he asked if it was cool if he asked her out i was like go for it around their second date they were leaving a restaurant when my buddy was shot twice in the back and she was shot in the head by the thug x she died thug was caught and my buddy has permanent nerve damage but survived when i was 24 i was getting ready to purpose to my girlfriend spent three thousand dollars on a ring my proposal plans were over the top it was gonna be magnificent two weeks before question day i woke up in the middle of the night to see that i had over a dozen missed calls and texts asking me to call her i didn't asked what was wrong long story short she had cheated on me with a guy who had rejected her in college really really really glad i kept the receipt for that ring new year's eve 2013 i met a girl at a party she asked me if i wanted to go to a different party with her i hopped in her car i didn't realize how drunk she was until we started driving around i asked her to stop the car she didn't i ended up exiting the vehicle at about 20 miles per hour i saw her four months later by her penstence she had a huge boot on her leg and crutches that night she crashed her car into a cop car she showed me the pictures the passenger side where i would have been sitting was completely crushed in if i had survived i would have lost both my legs she was so belligerently drunk that night that she actually ended up fighting the police she didn't stop when i asked her to because she was so belligerently drunk [Music] you

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Published: Thu Dec 10 2020