I (American) was visiting the UK for the primary time. I received to my hostel and began chatting with the Australian man within the mattress above mine. After I point out the place I’m from, he says there’s a well-known restaurant there he actually loves and goes to along with his household each time they go to. Seems it was a spot I used to work. He says “Hey I’ve an image of our server from the final time I used to be there, possibly it’s somebody you realize.” It was me.
I opened my pockets to indicate my associates I had no monies, and a moth flew out of it.
Edit: I first associated this incident 9 years in the past, and it received ~500 karma. 3 years in the past it was ~4000.
I feel possibly all want fun extra as time strikes on.
Was going to see a live performance with some associates. Printed my ticket at house. This was earlier than cellular tickets had been ubiquitous. All of us determined to fulfill at a bar a couple of mile from the venue, then stroll over after just a few drinks.
Have our drinks and a few meals and head to the venue. Once we get there, I out of the blue understand I haven’t got my ticket on me. Panicked, I run again to the bar. Verify my automotive within the car parking zone, nothing. Head contained in the bar, verify the desk we had been at, look in every single place. No ticket.
Bummed and dejected, I go away the bar and start to trek again to the venue to let my associates know I can not go along with them. Whereas I used to be ready at a crosswalk, the wind blows a bit, and with it, a sheet of paper floats previous me and involves a cease on the sidewalk.
I attain down, decide it up, and it is my goddamn printed ticket. The most effective days of my life.
My date and I received caught on the prime of a Ferris Wheel for almost 3 hours when the experience’s mechanism failed.
It was a really tall wheel – and he or she was afraid of heights. So, these hours within the Ferris Wheel automotive collectively appeared like eternity.
My dad wrote a e-book a really very long time in the past, and signed the copy that he gave to his in-laws. Years after he had died I loaned the signed copy to a man I used to be courting. We stopped seeing one another and he by no means gave it again.
Years later I made a decision I wished a duplicate of my dad’s e-book though it wouldn’t be *my* signed copy so I ordered it used on Amazon. The e-book that arrived is the signed one I’d loaned out. Seems he had offered it to a used bookstore, and I simply occurred to order from them.
I used to be on a airplane with a wished terrorist. I used to be seated 5 rows forward of Faisal Shahzad, the Time Sq. Bomber on a flight to Dubai. The doorways had been closed and we by no means left the gate, and the captain saved making bulletins/excuses as to why we had been delayed. After almost 3 hours of sitting there, the federal brokers rushed the airplane and marched that little s**t off the airplane.
Edit(s): this occurred 12 years in the past and my reminiscence has failed me, so…
1) The airplane did taxi away from the gate and returned, apparently. A lot of you will have made that clear.
2) I’m not sure why it took 3 hours, however I believe it was to evacuate the terminal.
3) A few of you object to the phrase “rushed”. Actually? The legislation enforcement officers didn’t amble or saunter onto the airplane; they had been in a rush, IMO.
4) After the suspect was eliminated, all passengers deplaned. After I made it to the terminal there have been lots of of legislation enforcement officers: NYPD, FBI, ICE, Transit Police, and so on. The flight crew and reps from Emirates Air had been unbelievable! Lodging had been made for everybody who didn’t need to get again on the airplane. All our baggage was eliminated and scanned / searched, and we needed to declare our luggage beneath the supervision of many, many eyes. I received again on the airplane, received airborne, made my connection in Dubai however my baggage didn’t. Emirates Air had it delivered to my lodge the subsequent day.
In 2013 I obtained a discover from my school that my low GPA from the earlier semester made me ineligible for monetary support the next semester. It was my final time period in grad faculty and the faculty was threatening to drop me from all courses if I did not pay tuition inside 72 hours. I went to drown my sorrows at a bar later that night time and I met a stranger and we began speaking. I instructed her my story and he or she provided to pay my tuition. I instructed her I did not settle for loans from strangers however she stated it was a present. Seems she was a really rich CEO and that night time she wrote me a verify for $2,500. I paid my tuition, completed faculty, and we nonetheless keep up a correspondence.
I used to be strolling by way of the woods with my boyfriend in highschool and we discovered some papers scattered in every single place. They had been actually previous and gross however we had been like “oh what if it is the DB Cooper briefcase” or one thing and picked up a sheet to see what it was and it WAS A HOMEWORK ASSIGNMENT I COMPLETED AND TURNED IN DURING THE 4TH GRADE.
Nothing may have ready me to see my very own title in my very own childhood handwriting in the midst of the woods lol
After I was about 12, there was a pizza place close to my home with a Ms. Pacman arcade recreation in it. I had spent possibly two years making an attempt to get on the Prime 10 rating record. Lastly went in a single night time and was simply possessed, performed a virtually flawless recreation, and ended up being *the* excessive rating on that unit! Put my title on the highest of the record for everybody to see, and felt like a queen!
Not even possibly a minute later, three males, all asian and carrying what I consider because the stereotypical “Japanese workplace employee” outfit of darkish slacks, belt, button down white lengthy sleeve shirts, stroll in, go on to the sport, do not order meals or discuss to anybody else. One in every of them begins enjoying the sport. And inside a couple of minutes, he obliterates my excessive rating and places his title on the prime. They left with out interacting with anybody within the place. Simply walked in and knocked me off the highest and left.
If anybody can clarify what occurred to me that day, I would respect it!
My husband and I went to a Tom Petty live performance on the final minute solely with the ability to get tickets for a budget seats. Proper earlier than the live performance begins someone approaches us and says ‘do you need to get bumped up’ and I stated certain as a result of there can’t be any worse seats than this and he says ‘ I’m with Tom Petty and the Heartbreakers and these are entrance row seats’. He arms them to me and disappears. My husband and I checked out one another, stroll to the entrance part safety guard, confirmed him our tickets and he walked us to entrance row heart seats and we loved a extremely nice live performance.
After I was a child I caught MewTwo at full well being with a Nice Ball in Pokémon FireRed. I assumed, “hey why not simply toss one out on the primary flip trigger why not” and because the ball saved rocking forwards and backwards I used to be like lmao there’s no method. However then it caught him and I simply sat there with my mouth open for a pair minutes. I didn’t know what to do since it might’ve been not possible to elucidate to my mother the importance of what simply occurred. I don’t know the mathematics but it surely needs to be beneath 1% probability.
Taking an exquisite Saturday morning experience house on my motorbike. Mini van pulled out in entrance of me. Totalled motorbike and van. Hospital did a scan of my head. Come to seek out out I had mind most cancers that we caught very early. Which can have saved my life.
Have a 2 greenback invoice that has me and my spouse’s signature on it saying “simply the two of us”. We did it after we first received collectively and after some time had it framed. Some years later it was stolen by some jackass who determined to interrupt into my home. I ended up going to some random fuel station weeks later and received I again as change. Actually simply stood there and stared at it in disbelief and instructed the cashier about it. Simply insane coincidence and luck. Nonetheless have that sucker and it has been one other 5 years.
Edit: I would prefer to thank everybody for his or her assist and feed again on my story! I truly simply posted an image of the invoice on my profile if anybody is to see it https://www.reddit.com/person/Straight_Spring9815/feedback/x1ohr2/this_is_the_lucky_2_dollar_bill_beat_up_as_all/?utm_medium=android_app&utm_source=share
I moved away from my hometown once I was 20. I began working for a corporation that had a number of areas across the metropolis. Sooner or later I simply occurred to be strolling previous one of many areas that I did not work at as a result of I used to be going to a watch appointment. Proper as I used to be strolling by, a man I knew from that different location walks out the door and tells me that my mother is on the cellphone. She was desperately making an attempt to get in contact with me as a result of my grandfather had died. She knew the title of the corporate I labored for however did not know which location I labored at, so she received an operator to attach her with one of many areas at random. The man I knew stated he was on the cellphone together with her and was simply beginning to clarify that I did not work at that location when he seemed out the window and noticed me strolling by.
I used to be in a espresso store in Austria known as the Pharmacy. I requested for the bathroom and the previous man behind the counter instructed me to go downstairs and to make use of the door that stated ‘ don’t enter’.
I achieved what I used to be instructed however discovered I used to be trapped at midnight some storage room. Fearing it was a Fritzel room I switched on my cellphone gentle and seen a ladder, so I climbed up it.
On the prime I exited a hatch and was surrounded by horses. Very costly trying horses.
I’d come up within the stables of the Vienna Spanish using faculty. Needed to exit by way of the using ring.
Was going from Rio de Janeiro to Paris with my aunt and cousins. The day earlier than we had been imagined to fly, we modified our flight to the next day so somebody may decide us up on the airport after we arrived. Our authentic flight was the Air France 447, that fell in 2009 and everybody died.
I used to be working a entrance desk job at a small workplace in a strip mall. A automotive pulled up, went over the curb, by way of the window, and hit the desk as I used to be sitting there.
I used to be kidnapped once I was 15. My “greatest pal” helped the pimps (who she was working for) assist promote me.
I had a pimp, named Goldie, beat the s**t out of me the primary night time after which made me exit on the streets. He adopted me each time I used to be picked up to ensure I didn’t run away. I lastly discovered a chance, and ran away with a few bucks in my pocket. One other pimp helped me escape. After I lastly made it house, my dad and mom had been so completely satisfied. The remainder of the world, not a lot.
Youngsters in school discovered and I used to be labeled a wh*re perpetually. This was 30 years in the past, and I simply had a woman I went to HS with message me on Fb to inform me that I’ve to all the time bear in mind I’m nothing however an inexpensive hooker. This was after she noticed my title in a mutual associates put up. I knowledgeable her I work with social employees and cops who attempt to assist victims of trafficking. That the disgrace spiral for these poor ladies results in all fee mortality at an alarming pace. That my accomplice and greatest associates know what occurred to me.
I used to let it form me. I used to suppose I used to be simply an ex hooker so nobody would ever love me or need me. That I wasn’t imagined to be completely satisfied or ever have an excellent job. Or that I might lose all of it if anybody ever discovered.
I’m solely in my 40s now however I’m smart sufficient to have discovered all of my fears had been simply from PTSD. I do deserve happiness and an excellent life. I’m not an ex hooker- I used to be a child and a sufferer.
Youngsters – if anybody tells you that you just aren’t s**t, please bear in mind you might be AWESOME. And in case your scenario is s**t, I promise you. It could get higher. Hugs from an Oregon mamma.
Edit : thanks a lot everybody! Holy smokes I woke as much as a lot assist and so many nice messages and feedback. You guys made my complete week.
I used to be in Hawaii for the missile strike turned false alarm. It was a film scene. Full grown males with households asking me what to do. Individuals operating in from the seaside screaming. Screeching tires. Terrifying.
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I used to be sitting exterior with my pal and he was twirling his double bladed pocket knife. This factor was massive too. It slipped out of his hand and flew straight in direction of me. The deal with (between the blades) hit me within the head, however not a single a part of the blade touched me. I’m undecided how that occurred.
After I was a teen within the ’80s, I received to fulfill and briefly hang around with an idol of mine. He was (and nonetheless is) a particularly well-known rock star. He was very good however a bit twitchy and really high-energy. Cocaine is a Hell of a drug.
On the finish of my little go to, I requested if I may have a photograph with him. He stated “let’s take a bunch!” So I handed my digital camera to an assistant and he took just a few good regular photos. As I am reaching to take again my digital camera I hear “ONE MORE!” from behind me, and the dude jumps on my again and assistant snaps the photograph. Remember the fact that I used to be a 14-year-old woman on the time, Mr. Rock Star weighed in all probability 200 kilos, and I used to be caught utterly off guard. It is a miracle that I saved my ft beneath me and did not get injured, however I received essentially the most hilarious photograph ever!
Quick ahead about 35 years, and I by some miracle had event to fulfill him once more. I used to be standing round with another individuals ready, he got here in and began shaking arms. When he received to me, he shook my hand, seemed me straight within the eye, and stated “Hey there Gorilla! How’s your again nowadays?” I used to be actually shocked speechless. This man, who has been preventing drug and alcohol habit for many of his life, remembered a 15 minute chat/photo-op with a nervous teenager a number of many years in the past, remembered my title and his little prank, and acknowledged me in center age.
What an awesome man. I am nonetheless his largest fan.
I placed on a humorous remix of the Hamster tune at work after which we had been robbed at gunpoint. It was surreal.
Me, my husband & 2 younger youngsters resolve to go to a Six Flags park on a Saturday. I picked out everybody garments for the day, however my husband determined to put on a distinct shirt, an unpleasant inexperienced polo. I hated the shirt and acted pissy all the way in which to the park through the two hour drive.
We arrive and received in line to get admission tickets then a stranger walks up and asks us if we need to get in free as he had season passes and it was some sort of “convey a pal” kind of promo day.
We thanked him for saving us admission prices and requested him “why did you select us out of all he individuals right here?”.
It was as a result of my husbands shirt colour was the identical colour of his favourite sport group.
My husband laughed about all of it day.
Went to a secluded mansion in Scotland for the weekend with my accomplice to attend a “convention” a pal instructed, that turned out to be an drug fueled orgy for company swingers. Us and a few different misinformed company ended up barricading ourselves in a research and watching previous horror motion pictures all weekend whereas a bunch of randos on LSD had intercourse within the grand dinning corridor subsequent door.
I someway received backstage with out them checking me for a move when everybody else needed to present theirs and at last received to fulfill Sufjan Stevens, my absolute fave, after 13 years, and we talked for like 45 minutes! And I feel he would have saved speaking if I hadn’t felt so like I used to be preserving him up and instructed him I needed to go. He had even turned down celebratory drinks (it was the final present of the tour) along with his band to speak. It has been 6 years I nonetheless cannot consider it and I give it some thought a number of instances a day. And besides, Bryan Devendorf, the drummer from my fave band The Nationwide was there too so I received to fulfill him too. He’s extremely tall.
One time I went tenting with my ex, and we took some LSD. Was round 1am, and I began seeing flashes of sunshine, figured it was simply another person within the campsite with a flashlight… after which I heard a distant ominus growth.
Seemed exterior the tent, one facet of the sky was a transparent starry night time, the opposite facet was an enormous black doom cloud with a f*ckload of lightning coming from it. So then started the scramble to get every thing out of the tent, and into the automotive. I bear in mind choosing up handfuls of stuff that was simply… melting into my arms as a result of I used to be within the peak of an acid journey.
We received the stuff within the automotive, and left the tent as a result of we couldnt determine find out how to disassemble it, after which huddled within the automotive ourselves. By this time the storm was on prime of us and the rain was pouring, and lightning was coming down far and wide.
Then, the loopy half. It had been a pair hours into the storm, and we had been nonetheless excessive as f**okay. I out of the blue felt tremendous tingly throughout, checked out my ex and her hair was standing proper up on finish… we knew what was about to occur and managed to offer one another a large eyed look earlier than *KABOOM!*. The lightning caught the bottom not an arms attain from me, I may have grabbed it if the window was down. It wasnt a traditional strike both, it was a constructive lightning strike which begins on the floor, and goes up, and is normally about 100x the ability of damaging lightning. I described as Zeus trying down at some puny mortals tripping balls in the midst of a storm and stated to his greek god bros “Hey guys, wanna see me scare the c**p of those two?”
Was superb to see… however I by no means wanna expertise that once more.
I as soon as requested a rustic artist in the event that they had been going to attend his personal present. It was Aaron Tippin. He simply got here from a celeb baseball recreation and was nonetheless within the uniform. I used to be taking a facet entrance to usher in some 12 packs of soda to the lodge room and him and I assume one in all his crew held the door open for me. The grew member had a cowboy hat and the entire look happening. After thanking them, I casually requested in the event that they had been there for the live performance. Aaron Tippin was strolling away and heard me say it. He began laughing as he turned the nook. It then dawned on me and I requested his crew member if that was who I assumed it was. He smiled and nodded. After the present I went and received his autograph and joked about it. TLDR: did not acknowledge singer after they held a door open for me. Requested him and his buddy in the event that they had been there for his live performance.
After I was a child, my sister was fearful of thunderstorms. One afternoon, a storm rolls by way of. We had been doing homework on the kitchen desk collectively, and my sister began getting scared. She received beneath the desk, simply in case. My mother tried to coax her out, to which my sister replied “What if we get struck by lightning?”
My mother, exasperated, replies, “We’re *not* going to get struck by lightning.”
And the second her sentence ended, there was a loud crack and lightning struck our home.
It hit midway up our stairs, the place it reaches a touchdown and curves again on itself. There was a window at that spot and the whole windowsill was black, as had been the underside 6 panels of the blinds. No harm in anyway to the tall pine tree immediately exterior the window.
Knocked out our telephones and safety system. The wiring had to get replaced utterly. Energy was completely effective although.
And I had a cool, but unbelievable, story the subsequent day about why I did not end my homework.
I went to observe an MMA Occasion known as Xtreme Cage Warz in 2006. I used to be speaking to the promoter as I knew him. The heavyweightm primary occasion fighter got here as much as Dave and stated his opponent cant struggle for I dont bear in mind the rationale. I seemed on the man and stated “Sick struggle you”. He requested if I used to be critical, I stated certain you got here 1000 miles would possibly as effectively struggle somebody. We each requested Dave he stated certain why not. They ran some checks on me, I borrowed a pair of Muay Thai shorts that I placed on backwards, somebody ran to wal mart and received me a cup and a mouthpiece. I then received within the cage on no discover basically and fought they man. He completely twisted me up and kicked the dwelling hell out of me. It was tremendous enjoyable, mma gloves are a lot softer than I anticipated and didnt get knocked out. For doubters, pm me Sick offer you my title and his title and this struggle will be googled
This was early seventies once I was about 1 yr previous. My dad and mom went on a tenting journey in New Hampshire, received to the positioning late, and needed to arrange every thing at midnight. My dad and mom put me on this German-made child leash factor and wrapped it round their arms, as a result of I might “sleep crawl” and there was no crib.
The following morning my father awoke to tugging on his wrist. He finds me dangling by the leash straight over a a number of hundred foot shear cliff. They’d arrange the tent not realizing how shut they had been to the facet.
If it hadn’t been for somewhat leather-based strap connected to a harness round me, I might have plummeted to my demise with out making a sound that night time and nobody would have identified for hours. It was doable they would not have discovered my physique as a result of the valley under had coyotes on the time.
I had a beater automotive in school. It was an historical Plymouth, made principally out of duct tape and rust.
I had all of my school books in it. Simply saved them there. Simpler for learning. Exit to my automotive and seize what I would like. Engineering books, too. So tremendous tremendous costly.
Somebody stole my automotive out of my driveway with all my books in it.
Police report, all that. No pleasure. I used to be heartbroken. How on the earth may I do my homework? How may I proceed the semester? I used to be completely f****d.
My mother provided to take me to high school that day. I used to be simply ruined. I had no hope. No thought how I might get by.
And on an on-ramp on the way in which to high school, **there she sat**. I simply occurred to note her as we had been driving by!
The previous woman selected *that actual second to throw her transmission*. When the thief was out joyriding it round and tried to get on the freeway. And I simply occurred to note it sitting there.
All my books had been nonetheless in it.
You simply do not get that sort of loyalty with a automotive anymore. She sacrificed herself in simply the appropriate spot so I would see her and get my books again. I will all the time love that automotive. Godspeed, you previous boat.
I’m a medic and firefighter. We as soon as had a name for one thing regular, like chest ache or one thing, I can’t bear in mind. The caller stated he was in his barn/storage, which isn’t bizarre actually round right here.
Anyway we pull up on scene and one thing simply felt off. No thought why however one thing simply instructed me in my intestine that one thing was unsuitable.
I made a decision to do a 360 across the constructing earlier than we went by way of the door on the entrance that was clearly the doorway. I stroll round and are available to a window on the facet of the constructing and look in.
There was a shotgun rigged to the door. The man had set a booby entice for us. And he had hung himself as effectively.
We kicked on this plexiglass kind materials on the facet of the constructing and entered that method. Man was lifeless. Nothing we may do about it at that time.
I might have been the primary by way of that door. No thought why I didn’t simply stroll by way of it that day.
Edit: I’ll attempt to reply among the questions right here.
No thought why the man did what he did, however my speculation in conditions like this and mass shootings and the like is offended suicide.
The explanation I made entry earlier than police had been current was as a result of they had been greater than half-hour away and if the man wasn’t lifeless I might have tried to revive him. I assessed the scene and made a danger/reward resolution and determined it was protected sufficient for me to enter from the facet of the constructing.
I’m not non secular and I feel it was simply coaching and expertise that made me double verify the scene. One thing seemed off to me on the time however I can’t even level out what it was. I’ve been in emergency providers for about 15 years and this is only one story of bizarre s**t that has occurred in that point.
And due to everybody for saying variety issues about me nonetheless being right here. I’m glad I’m right here too.
In school, I used to be chilling with some associates, doing homework and hanging out, once I received an e mail from my grandma. She had been actually into family tree these days, and had discovered some distant branches of the household tree. She was letting me know she’d found that I had a third cousin who attended the identical school as me. Effectively, not solely did I do know the man, he was truly sitting proper beside me as I learn the e-mail. I jumped up and shouted “Dude you are my cousin!” And that is how the man one chair over received upgraded from pal to household in two seconds flat.
Edit: Any person who was there that day simply despatched me an award, with proof. Appears to be like just like the anonymity of my Reddit account has been compromised. Time to burn all of it down I assume.
After I was a child I slept stroll actually badly and would additionally generally quasi-sleepwalk the place I used to be conscious and would bear in mind it later, however can be out of my f****n thoughts confused and semi-dreaming whereas it occurred.
I “woke” up in the midst of the night time one night time at 7 or 8 years previous and there was apparently an influence outage as a result of it was pitch black in my room, no nightlight, and no gentle coming in my window from the streetlights.
I wished to depart my room and go get up my dad and mom as a result of I used to be freaked out concerning the darkish however received disoriented and confused my closet door with my bed room door and began panicking as a result of I assumed somebody stacked a bunch of s**t exterior my bed room door to entice me. Began throwing s**t out of my closet and received to the again wall. Now, my childhood house had a dormer-style upstairs added earlier than we lived there such that my bed room was on the identical degree because the attic over the unique home space. There was an entry panel to the attic in my closet and I someway managed to get that open and “escaped” my room into the attic.
Round that point I totally awakened the remainder of the way in which to full lucid consciousness and freaked the F**Okay out not realizing the place I used to be and surrounded by dusty-a*s bins and spiderwebs and began screaming my f*****g brains out, seems the a part of the attic I used to be in was immediately over my dad and mom’ bed room and I scared the s**t out of THEM as a result of my screaming was coming from their ceiling, they begin freaking out and I used to be in there screaming for a strong 5 minutes earlier than my dad and mom had been in a position to determine what occurred and rescue me.
I’m 36 years previous now and STILL have the occasional nightmare about waking up in that attic.
I performed poker as soon as with Chris O’Donnell in a skeevy riverboat on line casino in Illinois.
I received dealt a straight flush and gained a $5,000 immediate bonus for it. (It was an in any other case low stakes desk.)
The worst half is that I had no clue who Chris O’Donnell was. Whenever you hit a bonus like that, they shut the desk for a couple of minutes to assessment the video and be sure to did not pop an ace out of your sleeve. Chris left the desk and instantly everyone began speaking about him and utterly ignored my attractive straight flush that was nonetheless sitting on the desk.
Ah effectively, I received paid…nonetheless the one time to this present day I’ve gained any sort of remotely materials quantity in a on line casino.
EDIT: Since many are asking, it was in or close to Elgin. Different commenters have instructed the boat was known as Grand Victoria however I truthfully do not bear in mind its title. Timeframe was mid 90s.
I had the decrease bunk of a set of bunk beds. I used to be about 3 – 4 years previous on the time, and I awakened and ran to my dad and mom room simply minutes earlier than the highest bunk smashed down on my decrease bunk. All of us ran in and located my older sister sitting up on the higher bunk because it lay on my decrease bunk, crying however in any other case effective.
I do not know that it may have killed me – I sort of doubt it might have been that dangerous – but it surely undoubtedly would have harm me if I would nonetheless been there when it crashed.
I had an ear an infection that was misdiagnosed for years, from once I was about 25-33. Throughout that timeline, it unfold out of my ear canal and into the encircling bone. Then, as a result of an atypical born formation in my cranium that may have in any other case been asymptomatic, the an infection traveled up my cranium and into my cranial cavity, unbeknownst to me.
The signs I skilled had been solely in my ear, the place I felt fluid and stress. I lastly demanded that an ent place a tube to attempt to filter out the an infection.
The tube drained for about three weeks, and at last the ent I had gone to panicked and misdiagnosed me with a cerebrospinal fluid leak. He rushed me to the ER with out even testing the fluid, and he supposed to chop my cranium open to search for a cerebrospinal fluid leak that did not exist. I used to be within the ER on a desk with the docs operating preop antibiotics once I received a name from a pal of the household who’s a health care provider. He had been talking to his physician associates, and so they all agreed I wanted to get the f**okay out of there. They did not consider there was a csf leak in any respect. I instructed the group of docs who had assembled to function on me that I used to be leaving, and so they had been pissed. All of them shot me condescending and offended seems to be as I left.
I received a name two days later from the ent telling me that they received the evaluation of the fluid again, and it wasn’t cerebrospinal fluid. I used to be in shock. They had been going to slice my head open on a fishing expedition for a csf leak that did not exist. He did not apologize or something. I hung up the cellphone and by no means talked to him once more.
Ultimately, the group of neurosurgeons my pal knew recognized me with a runaway ear an infection. One instructed me that I’ve “essentially the most distinctive trying cranium he’d ever seen.” Some praise.
One confirmed me a CT of my cranium. “See this black spot inside your cranium? That is air. That is not imagined to be there, and it means there’s a channel from the skin world to inside your cranium. That is very dangerous. Do you ever fly? [I responded that yes, I fly all the time. For work, for pleasure, all the time.] Effectively, cease that instantly. That is very harmful. Each time you have flown over the past a number of years, you have been rolling a die. It is doable that, when the cabin pressurized, this air pocket would increase and create a midline shift in your mind and also you’d die instantly.”
So, after a sh*tload extra scans, they took me in for an 8 hour surgical procedure. They eliminated the entire contaminated bone in my cranium, a bit that ran about 2″ x 6″. As a substitute, they put a titanium mesh implant to carry my cranium collectively. The restoration was the weirdest and most disorienting expertise. After I turned my head, I may really feel the plate shifting, and my cranium was not a full circle, so it wasn’t structurally sound, so it too kinda shifted.
However the bone healed over the implant, and now you’d by no means know that any of this occurred, aside from a barely noticeable scar behind my left ear.
Thank God I had that pal to inform me to bolt from that emergency room.
I used to be at a stoplight in a convertible, and a taxi cab got here hurtling in my path at over 100 miles per hour (he thought his brakes failed, however he was truly pounding the accelerator). He went right into a ditch as he approached me, and it despatched him airborne. He scraped alongside the facet of me, his tires left a mark at about my elbow degree. His bumper grazed my head, and he flipped 3 times, and crashed into the truck in entrance of me. His bumper eliminated a mole on the again of my head, and I had an enormous concussion that saved me within the hospital for per week, however I used to be in any other case unharmed. Unbelievable automotive accident.
As I walked right into a highschool hockey recreation, I had a robust premonition I might be hit with a hockey puck whereas sitting within the stands. I instructed all my associates who very a lot laughed and gave me s**t. I requested them to decide on our seats which ended up fairly far-off at center-ish ice.
They product of enjoyable of me all recreation till half method by way of the second when a puck comes screaming off the ice and hits me sq. within the chest falling flat into my open arms.
We by no means talked about it a lot after that, and no, I don’t suppose i’m psychic. It was simply the primary craziest factor that occurred to me that popped in my head. I nonetheless have the puck 30 years later.
Off of the highest of my head, once I was travelling by way of Moldova I got here to my parked automotive to see {that a} lady was writing a word. Lengthy story brief she hacked off my rearview mirror when she was driving subsequent to me however she was a excessive court docket decide who wished to do proper by me. So she provided to go to Kia dealership and purchase me a brand new mirror. They instructed us they should order it and it takes 7 days. As coincidence would have it, she had the identical automotive as me (Kia Sportage) even in the identical colour, so we simply sked the mechanic to change hers for mine and now I’ve a Moldovan Choose’s rearview mirror. What a pleasant girl.
Additionally, once I drove by way of Kyrgizstan and there was a highway blockage by landslide on the one one in all two roads by way of the nation. Driving by way of the opposite highway would take 15 further hours. So we simply had some vodka with locals who additionally wished to drive by way of and began digging. Took us lower than 4 hours to dig by way of (plus one other 4 hours to be in semi-sober state to drive once more).
Good instances
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Simply occurred to me final month.
I purchased an previous pop up camper from Craigslist and my fiancé and I wished to repair it as much as make recollections with our 3 yr previous. We began repairing some tears within the canvas, ordered new cushions for the dinette and I constructed a desk to switch the unique.
We had been set to do our first tenting journey and I wished and I wished to ensure the range and furnace had been working correctly earlier than we went (the unique vendor stated they labored.)
I adopted the furnace lighting directions, turned the propane on and tried to gentle the pilot- nothing occurred. I waited a couple of minutes and tried once more. As quickly because the lighter ignited I used to be engulfed in a fireball the entire neighborhood heard. I had third diploma burns to my face arms and ft. I turned the backyard hose on my physique until the ambulance got here as my pores and skin was peeling and blistering off my physique, it was fairly a spectacle. I spent the subsequent 3 weeks within the burn unit (the identical one anne heche was at.)
I’m relieved I didn’t die and that my daughter was safely sleeping upstairs. Additionally principally minimal scarring!
As a bonus I’ll be Deadpool for Halloween this yr so I received that going for me which is good.
On Might 2, 2019 I used to be attacked by a hive of bees. The nurses stopped counting stingers at 600 with loads extra to go. They had been flying in my mouth as I used to be screaming. A stay bee was extracted from my nostril on the ER.
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Was one of many primary victims of a terrorist assault just a few years in the past! It was an American who was impressed by ISIS and set off just a few stress cooker bombs in NYC. Fortunately solely misplaced some tooth and had been in a position to get them changed, however took a couple of years price of surgical procedure as a result of harm to my gums. Was tremendous fortunate the pellets that shot out of the bomb primarily hit my tooth and lips versus my eyes or anyplace else extra critical
Misplaced a pair of earrings 4 years in the past. Seemed in every single place for them and could not discover something. Whereas transferring to a distinct condo I attempted on the lookout for them once more in each merchandise of fabric. Completely nothing.
4 years later I am already after 2 flats, and I out of the blue step on one thing that was on the carpet. It was one of many earrings.
I do not know the way it received to the carpet in the midst of the room, and why after 3 month of me dwelling right here. There isn’t any logical rationalization for this. Cannot discover its pair although.
Was an alternate pupil in South America. There was a navy coup and the airport was completely shut down.
Someway, although, I used to be the one particular person on a jet overseas. My dad was a Inexperienced Beret and I’m fairly certain I used to be Liam Neeson-ed out of a crumbling nation.
Additionally, I used to be imagined to fly to stated nation on 9/11/2001 by way of NYC. Someway, my flight was modified to 9/8/2001, and I used to be there when it occurred.
Was on a late night time stroll with a pal. We discovered $900 in $100 payments on the bottom as we walked handed a car parking zone at about 1 or 2 am.
I used to be rounded up illegally by the Chicago police for protesting the outbreak of the Iraq Warfare. (Protesters marched up Lake Shore Drive, the police blocked it off, then lastly blocked marchers from each instructions and randomly began arresting individuals.) I managed to name my gf on the time from the paddy wagon to inform her what was occurring, and as soon as I used to be photographed and booked, I used to be led to a cell filled with different protesters. In some unspecified time in the future, I used to be faraway from that cell by a cop and brought far down a abandoned hallway, the place I used to be put in a cell on my own.
I saved falling asleep and waking up anticipating to be bailed out, however nothing was occurring. I had no thought what number of hours handed beneath the unblinking fluorescent lights and I began to really feel like I used to be going loopy…a sensation that deepened once I thought I heard a sing-song voice or voices calling my title from far off.
‘BrettTheSh*tmanShaaaaaaart…’
‘BrettTheSh*tmanShaaaaaaart…’
My precise title is considerably unusual so it wasn’t like I may very well be complicated it for one thing else…or may I??? Certainly I used to be going loopy, proper? Or was I truly listening to my title??
I saved making an attempt to sleep, do push-ups, meditate…and ignore the disconcerting feeling that I used to be going insane each time I’d discover what seemed like my title being sing-song’d by somebody far, far-off.
They ultimately locked some extra individuals in my cell so I wasn’t completely alone. I spent 32 hours in whole in custody.
Some native filmmakers did a documentary concerning the protest and so they occurred to interview me…the place I discovered that as a result of my gf saved calling the police station and telling them that I used to be a journalist (good woman!), the police would come to the overall holding space with all the opposite protesters and name my title. The protesters thought that somebody was pranking the cops bc my title is so uncommon, in order that they began calling out my title en masse on this sing-song cadence.
So I wasn’t dreaming it or going loopy! Some individuals even screenprinted ‘FREE BRETTTHESH*TMANSHART’ t-shirts within the mode of the FREE WINONA shirts that had been in style on the time.
(And in case you’re questioning, we class-action sued the town and every of us gained five-figure settlements 10 years later.)
In highschool, I lived in a home that was on the finish of a T intersection. It was a small residential space, and for essentially the most half received little or no visitors aside from residents. However sometimes individuals would flip down our avenue as a substitute of the subsequent one over, which went by way of to the subsequent main avenue.
One night time, I used to be hanging out with my associates once I hear tires screeching exterior. Then I see this trans am barreling straight towards my home. I begin operating away from the entrance door once I hear crashing and tires squealing. Pondering that the automotive had hit my dad’s automotive and was fleeing the scene, I ran exterior to attempt to get his license plate quantity. I completely did not anticipate what I noticed.
My dad’s automotive, which was parked in entrance of our home, was now on our entrance garden (about 10-15′ away). And it had knocked down and
was now on prime of a tree (not enormous, however possibly 6″ in diameter) that used to develop on the grass between the sidewalk and the road. The Trans Am was on prime of this enormous rhododendron that grew between mine and my neighbor’s driveways. Its tires had been nonetheless spinning, one in all them smoking on my driveway. However it wasn’t going anyplace as a result of the entrance finish of the automotive was inside my neighbor’s Lincoln Mk IV, which had been shoved about 2′ to the facet. My neighbor received the door open and turned the automotive off. The motive force was unconscious and bleeding. The remainder of the night time was all emergency autos and tow vehicles. The police later instructed us he was on cocaine and alcohol.
The craziest half is that if my dad’s automotive wasn’t the place it was, the man would’ve ended up in my front room. And if my neighbor’s automotive wasn’t the place it was, he would possibly’ve ended up in my neighbor’s front room.
My roommate in 1st yr of faculty was breaking and getting into throughout campus. He stole tools from the library.
I bear in mind studying the suspect’s description within the newspaper and pondering that it matched my roommate, together with the garments, however dismissed it as a result of what are the percentages.
Flash to me getting pulled out of historical past class by cops and brought in for questioning. They wished to know why there was all this stolen s**t in my shared room.
I in all probability appeared fairly responsible as a result of I used to be in shock about out of the blue being interrogated by the cops and since I would been crunching for college and never slept for 2 days.
Effectively, they ultimately let me go, the dude in the end received kicked from faculty, and I received an unique room for just a few months!
Oh! And, weirdly, another time that yr, a PI got here to my door investigating who was imagined to be in my room as a substitute of me. Seems that child went lacking and his dad and mom had been looking for him.
Cursed room man.
One in every of my associates was a social employee. She was blind. She had gotten divorced throughout graduate faculty. When she received divorced, I took over caring for her pc and for her Seeing Eye canine.
A number of years later, she began courting this man, and instructed him about me. Amongst different issues, I had a colourful, distinctive, unbelievable Air Pressure profession.
So when she launched me to this man, he instructed me that she had talked about me rather a lot, and that he had been a Navy Seal.
Just a few months later, one in all her colleagues from work requested me what I thought of her courting a former SEAL. I did not actually take into consideration what I used to be saying. I simply stated “Oh, he was by no means a Navy Seal.” She stated “Why do you say that?”
I stated, “He is too silly to have ever been a SEAL.”
She talked about what I stated to my blind pal’s dad and mom. They had been already uneasy about this man; they engaged a non-public detective. He engaged the police. The police engaged the FBI.
Turned out this man was wished in reference to the homicide of a New Jersey state police officer. He discovered that it was my remark that set all this in movement. He phoned me and threatened to kill me.
The FBI had a faucet on my cellphone for over a yr. He by no means known as again. I do not know if there have been any developments in that case. That was 30 years in the past.
My blind pal is doing effective.
We’re touring in a van in Europe. In October 2021 we parked on prime of a random hill close to Dubrovnik, Croatia. We meet one other German couple with the cutest canine who additionally stay in a van. We discuss somewhat ‘oh cool, you scent dangerous to’ you realize such as you do. We go away the subsequent day, we do not have instagram or one thing so we did not excange information. After that we journey some extra till in December I broke my foot. We return house, I get better and we set again of after just a few months.
So the previous month we’re touring by way of Norway. We cease in somewhat city of bumf**okay nowhere to get some (very costly) meals. We’re within the line for the register and in walks this f*****g similar German couple. In Norway. In a random city. In a random retailer.
I MEAN HOW DOES THAT HAPPEN
My thoughts continues to be blown, what are the f*****g probabilities. In all probability won’t ever see these individuals once more, do not even know their names. However man, I feel it is so loopy it will by no means not astound me once I give it some thought.
My husband and I awakened in the midst of the night time to a hideous growling noise in our bed room.
We had been each jarred awake on the similar time and began making an attempt to activate the lights (cellphone, lamps, no matter we may attain)
And there past the footboard of our mattress, had been TWO collarless, IDENTICAL-looking grey cats, growling at one another
WE ONLY HAVE ONE grey cat.
Actually seconds after we flipped on the lights, they get right into a preventing/hissing match all concerning the room whereas my husband and I attempt to snap out of shock
We’re chasing these cats round, and I’m screaming to him “Seize Nenna!” and he’s yelling “I don’t know which one is ours!!”
In between a number of Oh my gods and WTFs?!?! and the moments that we may break them up sufficient to get an honest take a look at them, we couldn’t establish our cat and had NO clue how one other received into our bed room on the 2nd flooring
Lastly they run into the subsequent bed room and one cat jumps out an open window onto a ledge
…which is after we realized the pal who’d stayed over just a few nights earlier than, left a window open
Discuss 5 LONG minutes within the Twilight Zone.
P.S. we’re like 97% certain it was *not* our cat that jumped again out the window.
In senior yr of highschool we took a discipline journey to Little Tokyo in Downtown LA I used to be hanging out with three of my associates and in some unspecified time in the future we had been sitting on a type of bench planters that go round a tree. A yr or two later 2 of the identical associates and I went to Little Tokyo once more and made our technique to that bench the place I went “final time we had been right here (our third pal) was sitting proper right here with us as effectively”. Not 2 minutes later that pal got here strolling as much as the bench utterly coincidentally. None of us even stay all that near Little Tokyo he simply occurred to be in the identical spot on the similar time after I had simply referenced him being there years earlier than. We had been all dumbfounded.
Edit: Simply because I felt like sharing one other; one time I used to be enjoying Mario Get together 7 with my cousins and there’s this windmill financial institution map (Pagoda Peak is healthier) that has this massive pink flower that takes you to 1 of two areas. We rode it 7 or 8 instances and each single time it took us to the identical area, it received to the purpose that we had been questioning our map information, we had been like “does it solely take you to this one area?”. Assuming it’s a 50% probability and we received it 7 instances there’s solely a 0.3% probability of that occuring. I feel the Little Tokyo one is crazier however my thoughts was blown at Mario Get together as effectively.
Edit 2: In line with the wiki the pink flower can take you to “one in all a number of random areas” which appears to suggest there’s greater than 2 areas… if that is true we could also be speaking lottery ticket odds which in flip could edge out the pal coincidence.
I had simply received a new-to-me truck. I took it to my Dad’s home and we had been trying it over. I noticed I would by no means checked to see the place the spare tire jack and tire iron had been, so we began on the lookout for all of the elements. My Dad was trying beneath the passenger seat (the place the tire iron ended up being) and stated “Drop one thing? “
He gave me my driver’s license. I opened my pockets to place it away, and my license was nonetheless in it.
What he had was the motive force’s license that had been stolen whereas I used to be on a highway journey in Arizona – beneath the seat of a truck I purchased a yr later.
I used to be scammed by a automotive rental firm (Driv-O) and I left a foul assessment on their Yelp web page. Somebody reached out to me and stated it occurred to them too and to e mail the DA who was constructing a case in opposition to them. So I emailed my criticism and didn’t hear something for five years. Then at some point they mailed me a verify and I received all my a reimbursement. I can’t consider it truly labored.
I work on a psych ward.
I had a affected person I would by no means met or seen earlier than stroll proper as much as me and inform me I had my grandfather’s eyes, “you realize, like this – ” as he did a sieg heil…
my great-grandfather was within the Sturmabteilung (SA) through the Third Reich and I do certainly have his eyes, as does my father and his mom. it made the hair on the again of my neck rise up.
In all probability the time I met an previous center faculty classmate at my 20s… Half the world away. Working on the similar place.
This occurred when i used to be 19. It was about 4am and I had gotten a flat tire. I used to be about 2 miles from house so I simply began strolling house. About 2-3 minutes later a automotive pulls up and affords me a experience. The motive force of the automotive was my first actual girlfriend who I hadn’t seen in 3 years. Her dad was a Marine and was transferred to a base in one other state about 1500 miles away. Her and her pal had been transferring to go to school and so they had pushed 200 miles out of their method simply to indicate one another the houses that they grew up in since they initially got here from the identical metropolis.
She begins to introduce me to her pal and her pal was truly one other ex girlfriend that I hadn’t seen in about 2 years. Her father had moved for a job and the women met in highschool. They’d no concept that they each had dated me (it was virtually a yr of courting for the primary, about 5 months for the second, I was16/17 on the time and so they had been 15/16). Sorry to disappoint, however nothing occurred that night time, there was no threesome.
This can get buried, however I used to be at a bar with my x girlfriends sister (she was like my sister) and Andy D**okay reveals up. He was identified across the space however he was speaking to my sister after which grabs her tits. She was shy and didn’t rise up for herself.
So, I ended up getting right into a bodily altercation with him and punching him within the face. Become a struggle, police confirmed up, he received arrested, bar tender stood up for me.
Loopy instances
Was on my method house from church, and another church down the highway received bombed by Boko Haram terrorists. I will need to have been about 13 or 14. My mother who’s normally calm was understandably freaking out about what highway we must always take house as a result of the car the boko haram members had been in was driving in direction of us. I bear in mind a man with a leg that will need to have been damaged years prior hobbling in direction of the highway to dam off the terrorists in addition to hurling rocks at their automotive with others as they sped previous. They had been driving so quick our automotive shuddered as they went previous us. We received house effective although
After I was a teen I used to be ramping the filth bike out within the discipline. Took one too quick, flipped the bike on prime of myself and conked myself within the head. Knocked out though I used to be carrying a helmet.
After I got here to, it was two hours later and I used to be sitting on the foot of my mattress enjoying guitar. I used to be fingerpicking the principle riff to Candy Baby O Mine (which I had by no means performed earlier than). My mother stated she by no means knew any wreck had occurred, I had simply walked into the home, gone upstairs, and performed guitar for 2 hours.
My canine received stolen from me in a Goal car parking zone… and I received him again by monitoring down a black mustang with pink racing stripes, no license plate, and no skilled assist. All in <24 hours.
I went to a faculty within the UK. For like 3 months earlier than I left I had a recurring dream. It was about something, simply 3 ladies sitting in a sort of quaint bed room, carrying very particular clothes. These saggy blue smocks, using pants, blue bandana round their hair.
So I get there, housekeeper is exhibiting me round this home, an previous transformed manor home. She opened the door to a bed room and ( sincere ) it was THAT DAM ROOM. 3,000 miles from the place I lived, I could not have seen it earlier than, no brochures, nothing. Pre web, you could not look stuff up.
Then she instructed me what we had been imagined to put on, went to the varsity workplace to purchase it- and met all these different ladies carrying the identical factor I had to purchase and noticed in my dream. Similar bandana, using breeches. ( It was a using faculty )
Freaked me the heck OUT. By no means discovered an evidence.
Our guitarist was late to band apply so we determined to go to the mall and decide up our drummer’s pre-ordered copy of GTA4. We determined we had been hungry however we had been extremely broke so we went to Wendy’s. We occurred to be speaking about quad core processors (model new tech) and the way the rumors we heard was that they had been vulnerable to crashing. This previous man behind us interrupts us and tells us he finds them to be fairly secure. We discuss computer systems with him a bit and he says he’d be interested by hiring us for an infusion of youth into his firm. He gave us his card and instructed him we appreciated the provide.
We glance him and his firm up later and he is a legit billionaire. Personal jet billionaire. We apply and the interview was principally a formality as a result of he met us within the foyer and stated he was going to inform them to push us by way of.
I went from blockbuster to a company job as a software program tester as a result of a sequence of coincidences.
After I was round 10, again within the 70s, earlier than seatbelt use was widespread. I used to be in the midst of the again seat, with siblings on both facet. A automotive ran a purple gentle and smacked within the facet of the automotive. Nobody was critically harm, simply cuts and bruising, besides myself. I had no accidents. My brother subsequent to me, on the far facet of the automotive, had cuts from flying glass, however none hit me.
A automotive went close to me, hit, and than wanished down a highway.
it was a a technique avenue, nowhere to go and lots of people noticed it.
I used to be visiting the Statue of Liberty with my household. By chance ran into a girl. After I rotated to apologize I noticed it was the alternate pupil we had hosted a decade earlier than. What a coincidence that we had been visiting NYC from TN and he or she was visiting from Denmark on the similar time, we each determined to go to the Statue of Liberty on the similar time, and I simply so occurred to clumsily run into her. It’s a small world
After I was younger, I received to go to Disney World and experience House Mountain. It was the top of the day by the point I lastly received on, and the park (or possibly simply the experience) introduced it was closing. Everybody left, however they continued operating the experience. So there was a cycle of go on House Mountain, run (and I imply I went as quick as I may) again to the beginning of the road, and go on House Mountain. I did this 5 – 6 instances till my household dragged me away, and I bear in mind racing with two or three different youngsters doing the identical factor for the entrance seat. At the same time as a child, I assumed this was loopy, and nobody believed me in class once I instructed them it had occurred. That was probably the most superior experiences of my life.
I misplaced an vital paper after bringing it house from work. Searched for two weeks and could not discover it. Sooner or later at house, I took a container of the earlier night time’s leftovers out of the fridge and set it on the counter. Then I ducked again into the fridge for one more merchandise. After I stood again up and seemed on the container on the counter, the paper was sitting on prime of it.
Nonetheless provides me the f*ckin creeps.
Okay, I am not making this up. A few years in the past and roughly 6-7 years after John Lennon’s homicide, I used to be on this room on my own, and there was a piano within the nook. Now, I do ***NOT*** play the piano. The most effective I do is one finger melodies and a significant chord or two. That stated, pianos all the time fascinated me, and I all the time felt drawn to them. So, I’m going over to the piano and begin enjoying round with it. Unexpectedly “Think about” pops out. The precise tune, together with the little runs on the finish of every phrase. So, I am questioning the place the hell that is coming from, after which I get this actually sturdy feeling that Lennon is standing behind me. In fact, he wasn’t, however I look anyway. This complete factor weirded me out a lot, I ran and received my spouse and instructed her what had occurred. So then I attempted to play it once more whereas she was standing there. It was nonetheless there somewhat bit, but it surely was fading, and I’ve by no means been in a position to do it since. I’ve by no means believed in channeling or different New-Agey stuff, however this undoubtedly made me suppose somewhat.
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