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Im on the last day of a 3 day fast, so yeah my stomach wants to kill me right now.

>So he managed to prevent me from killing both his and myself at the age of 3

Honestly, I should be impressed. But I gotta say, that's too young of an age to be a dad.

Happy cake day!

And a fart can and probably will be triggered by a nearby avalanche.

I think being milliseconds from being hit by a car makes it a close call

I was too young to remember but my heart and breathing stopped during my circumcision and I had to be resuscitated. I'm pretty sure that clinical death counts as the closest I've been to dying.

Not me, but my son and his dad. When my son was a baby (maybe a year old?) his dad was pushing him in the pram. They walked past a building site with about 6 floors of scaffolding. A big metal pole fell off the top and landed about a foot behind them. If they'd stopped for any reason for even a second, they'd probably both be dead.

This second story probably isn't the closest I've ever been to death, but it certainly felt like it. My son and I were leaving Catalunya metro station and decided to stop for a doughnut. They were going really slowly and I kept thinking we should skip it, but he wanted a fruit pot and I thought I should wait as he'd chosen fruit over doughnuts. As we were finally about to leave the station, a security guard came screaming down the stairs and forced us all back onto the platform. The van used in the Barcelona terrorist attack had just gone over our heads, killing 16 pedestrians. If we hadn't decided to wait for the doughnut and fruit pot, our planned route would have had us right in its path as it went down La Rambla.

All things considered, my son seems to be some sort of good luck charm.

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And milk with beans for those particularly stubborn to shift ice packs.

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Fun fact. Ski patrol goes around farting to keep the slopes safe. You are required to have beans for breakfast. Milk might be ok if you are lactose intolerant.

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I read that as “most people don’t know the closet they have been to dying “ and I was soooooo lost 😅

But anyways, I KNOW the closest I’ve been to dying: in a car crash at age 8 sitting behind my mom who was in the driver seat. She didn’t make it but me and my brother in the passenger miraculously did. I’ve heard many times it was a miracle and the odds were against me surviving, let alone unharmed like I was

FOURTEEN? Good lord, my freind once slit his throat and has said he has no idea how he’s alive and that he’s really lucky, and he’s an amazing person so I’m just gonna say it’s good karma, although he’s really open about it I still don’t know the exact reasons other than Abusive girlfriend.

I'm sure I know it. Once when I was a kid a bus was so close to me that I felt the wind. It was fast and big and i'm sure I lived that day by like 30 centimeters.

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When I was young I used to enjoy climbing construction cranes at night with friends. One time, I jumped from the crane arm onto the roof of the crane cabin, which hangs to the side of the crane. But it had recently rained, and there was a puddle on top of the slick, painted metal roof. I could have very easily slipped since it was a kind of sideways jump. That was definitely the closest I have come to death. Yes, I realize how stupid that was.

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