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hecatesoap t1_j9y5sfg wrote

Reply to Most people don’t know the closest they have been to dying by Mr_Pocket_

When I was about eight, I was playing in my backyard. An SUV rolled to a stop near the kitchen garden area. The people inside the car started asking me where to find different places around town. I told them I didn’t know.

They asked me to come closer to the car.

I wouldn’t.

They demanded I come closer so they could “show me something”.

I shook my head no and backed away.

They drove away when they saw my mom stepping outside to find me. Only a few years ago I realized that they would have kidnapped me if I had approached the car.

Teach your children: Adults never ask kids for help.

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boxonhead11 t1_j9y3cnz wrote

Reply to comment by [deleted] in Most people don’t know the closest they have been to dying by Mr_Pocket_

My wife is an ER nurse and she has told me, on multiple occasions, about patients who come in because they “have a feeling”.

My biggest fear is that I don’t have the forethought to get myself to a hospital in your situation and I just try to tough it out or sleep it off.

My wife has said many times: “If that person hadn’t come in when they did, they would be dead right now”.

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Dashie_2010 t1_j9y25uo wrote

Reply to Most people don’t know the closest they have been to dying by Mr_Pocket_

I nearly drowned in a pool as a kid, my school would take us for swimming lessons and at the end of term we were allowed a 'fun day' where we could play with these floating mats, water squirters and things. Anyway, i was a bully magnet for a variety of reasons and they decided it'd be fun to float these big mats over top of me after I'd gone under the water, I ended up blacking out, luckily a lifeguard noticed the kids doing whatever they were doing and must have got me out, that wasn't fun.

I once swapped a power socket out after turning the wrong circuit off, turns out it was live the entire time.

Only other one i can think that would qualify was cycling back form town I was going down a hill and my front wheel slid out over a slick manhole cover, I face grated the road becoming a meat crayon. From a neerby factorys cctv it looks like I lay there for a bit before getting up, jumping back on the bike, cycled at least a mile back before a kind stranger took me to hospital when he found me slumped over on the bridalway. If I wasn't wearing a helmet that day i really don't think I'd have moved from outside that factory. I ended up in hospital with a broken jaw, a few large gashes on my chin and shoulders, nerve damage and loss of feeling in my face and a concussion. I was wairing a helmet then but I make extra sure to put it on now and to not go zooming down hills at stupid speed.

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FrostWareYT t1_j9y1qst wrote

Reply to Most people don’t know the closest they have been to dying by Mr_Pocket_

Oh I do! I’d say It was when I got in a crash in the rain on the West Virginia turnpike, thankfully I didn’t hit anyone else when I hydroplaned, just the barrier wall, but there were cars and semis speeding by around a curve, it’s spooky to think how easily I could have been slammed in the side by one of those trucks.

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