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By (user no longer on site) OP
over a year ago
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Inspired by the insistance that taking a penalty can be the most nerve-racking moment of your life.
My number one would be the time in South America for drinks at a 'business mans' apartment and finding a loaded gun in the kitchen! |
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Trekking in thailand and crossing a 30-40 metre wide ravine using a bridge that was very flimsy and made out of 3 pieces of bamboo. Less than a foot wide, no hand rail and a 20 metre drop on to a dry river bed. Never been so scared in all my life. |
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By (user no longer on site)
over a year ago
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And there have been a few cycling related ones, the worst being a pick up truck losing control and skidding side wards towards me. Missed me by about a foot |
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By *issLissCouple
over a year ago
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Id say the entire pregnancy of my second born... I got pregnant 3 months after giving birth and was still traumatised by that so for 7 months I cried and had anxiety attacks!!
As it turns out it was a great birth - so had nothing to worry about!!
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Similar thing... Had a gun pointed at me in the Philippines... Over a bar girl too...
Was playing that stupid dice game that you can't win!!! Or if you do they change the rules...
He took the gun from his body guard and d*unkenly threatened me with it.
My boss at the time calmed it down and and his body guard took the gun back...
Was kind of surreal. |
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By (user no longer on site) OP
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"Trekking in thailand and crossing a 30-40 metre wide ravine using a bridge that was very flimsy and made out of 3 pieces of bamboo. Less than a foot wide, no hand rail and a 20 metre drop on to a dry river bed. Never been so scared in all my life. "
That brings so many films to mind! Think I would've turned back  |
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had several in life, one when aged 19 that springs to mind was doing a 'final approach' on a culvert in Armagh and seeing what I thought was a trip wire against my lower leg..
turned out to be discarded fishing line.. |
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By *emmefataleWoman
over a year ago
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"had several in life, one when aged 19 that springs to mind was doing a 'final approach' on a culvert in Armagh and seeing what I thought was a trip wire against my lower leg..
turned out to be discarded fishing line.. "
My stomach flipped reading that! |
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By (user no longer on site)
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"had several in life, one when aged 19 that springs to mind was doing a 'final approach' on a culvert in Armagh and seeing what I thought was a trip wire against my lower leg..
turned out to be discarded fishing line.. My stomach flipped reading that!"
Definitely a brown trouser moment... |
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By *Ryan-Man
over a year ago
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Riding my motorbike down a lane at night, when I noticed at the last moment the farmer had stretched a chain across it to stop the cows wandering.
Luckily it only took me out at headlamp level. My last thought before it all went black was 'Oh fuck!' |
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By (user no longer on site)
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there have a been quite a few.
posing for a charity calendar with only a Christmas garden ornament to protect my modesty (stop people from feeling sorry for me), in a room with about 8 women who have all had the room to themselves when they had their pictures done.
Getting back on a motorbike for the first time after going over the bonnet of her car, I felt so scared and tense I very nearly packed it in.
going down hill from Upholland to Appley Bridge on my Harry Quinn road bike, I was going quite fast part way down the hill there is roads works and the lights are red and a car is waiting. I stopped in time, it shit the living daylights out of me.
going along edge lane on my R6, a 4x4 took umbrage to me swerving to avoid road works in my lane, I never crossed the white line onto his lane. He started driving alongside me and swerving onto my lane, then tried to get in front of me to brake check me. To which I was not that stupid to allow him to do that. We finally got to Marconi lights to find them red and a car in my lane, I stopped on the white line in between the two lanes, the 4x4 screeched to a halt next to me. As the lights went green the police helicopter made its presence known to us and we both pulled off from the lights, he got pulled I got waved through. It took me several hours to stop shaking. |
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"had several in life, one when aged 19 that springs to mind was doing a 'final approach' on a culvert in Armagh and seeing what I thought was a trip wire against my lower leg..
turned out to be discarded fishing line.. My stomach flipped reading that!"
character building..
have to admit I nearly filled my kacks.. |
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Going to my first Tranny event, I had to drive to the underground car park in Brighton, then walk to the place which was in a hotel near the pier. It was my first time out dressed, I was shitting myself. |
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By (user no longer on site)
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Mine was when i jumped in the canal after my dog, he had decided to go for a swim and got cough up on some undergrowth, i called him a few times but he was struggling, i just want to point out i cant swim so was trying to avoid going in, Anyway as he started to tier he went under and which point i jumped in, i was bloody in tears and terrified i had no idea what my plan was after i jumped in but i couldn't stand there and watch him, it was either going to somehow work or we was going to die together 
when i jumped in the bloody water only came to my waste so was a happy ending |
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By (user no longer on site) OP
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"had several in life, one when aged 19 that springs to mind was doing a 'final approach' on a culvert in Armagh and seeing what I thought was a trip wire against my lower leg..
turned out to be discarded fishing line.. "
Jesus! |
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By (user no longer on site) OP
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"Mine was when i jumped in the canal after my dog, he had decided to go for a swim and got cough up on some undergrowth, i called him a few times but he was struggling, i just want to point out i cant swim so was trying to avoid going in, Anyway as he started to tier he went under and which point i jumped in, i was bloody in tears and terrified i had no idea what my plan was after i jumped in but i couldn't stand there and watch him, it was either going to somehow work or we was going to die together
when i jumped in the bloody water only came to my waste so was a happy ending "
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By (user no longer on site)
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The one hour driving lesson before my test. Never felt like that before or since. Strangely,as I got in the car for my actual test I was as cool as a cucumber and passed with 2 minors |
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Waiting as my son went through his heart op at 6 weeks old, the most terrified I've ever been or will ever be ... Looking at him now at 13 yes old , 6'ft tall with size 9 feet it still blows my mind at what he went through |
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By (user no longer on site)
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Sitting next to a woman in a bar just outside Eilat when she picked a bottle up, smashed it and stuck it into her boyfriends neck.....claret everywhere!!! |
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Looking down from a great height and seeing the rump of my horse in front of me and knowing there was no way back from there and I was going to hit mother earth at a great rate of knots in close proximity to flailing hooves!!!
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Scary moments, a few over the years, but one where I honestly thought I might mot get out alive was being confronted by a d*unken angry guy with a petrol chain saw, he was trying to start it up (but forgot about the choke!) So he ended up throwing it at me!! I had a few sleepless nights thinking over that one  |
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By *inaTitzTV/TS
over a year ago
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"Going to my first Tranny event, I had to drive to the underground car park in Brighton, then walk to the place which was in a hotel near the pier. It was my first time out dressed, I was shitting myself."
Going out in public dressed for the first time is a biggy.
Other than that discovering that what we'd been kicking across a dark field on Salisbury Plain wasn't a big stone, but unexploded ordnance was a bit of a shock when we caught sight of it properly.
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By (user no longer on site) OP
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"Waiting as my son went through his heart op at 6 weeks old, the most terrified I've ever been or will ever be ... Looking at him now at 13 yes old , 6'ft tall with size 9 feet it still blows my mind at what he went through "
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By (user no longer on site)
over a year ago
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"cutting the blue wire
him
Need more info!"
the blue wire on the bomb  it worked hence i am still here
my attempt at humour does not seem to of worked
him |
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By (user no longer on site) OP
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"cutting the blue wire
him
Need more info!
the blue wire on the bomb it worked hence i am still here
my attempt at humour does not seem to of worked
him"
I always thought it was the red wire  |
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By *not69Man
over a year ago
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"I've had lots of them in my life but more recently my most nerve wracking was walking into a swinger's club for the first time
Did you go alone?"
Yes. But I did it in style, 2 clubs on 3 nights in the first week. But I still get nervous |
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"Inspired by the insistance that taking a penalty can be the most nerve-racking moment of your life.
My number one would be the time in South America for drinks at a 'business mans' apartment and finding a loaded gun in the kitchen!"
Sounds like déjà vu 
South America yes... Kitchen yes lol... and add the being escorted there by armed bodyguards... I was on edge to say the least lol
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By (user no longer on site) OP
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"Inspired by the insistance that taking a penalty can be the most nerve-racking moment of your life.
My number one would be the time in South America for drinks at a 'business mans' apartment and finding a loaded gun in the kitchen!
Sounds like déjà vu
South America yes... Kitchen yes lol... and add the being escorted there by armed bodyguards... I was on edge to say the least lol
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I can't match the bodyguards. Well maybe they were stealthy |
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By (user no longer on site)
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I was in Norway refueling a helicopter that just landed engines still running the fuel started to leak from the nozzle I told the pilots they shut down the helo so fast that the unburnt fuel in the engine caught fire then both pilots on seeing the fire decided to run away and leave me there with the helo on fire and fuel from my hose still leaking.....I just froze with fear knowing that if the fire was the travel anymore downward towards the leaking nozzle that was it.... |
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Resuscitating my son when he stopped breathing in my arms
And waiting to hear my daughters first cry when she'd been given a 5% chance of survival
I managed to bring my son back
And my daughter came out screaming strangely enough she broken all the rules since then too lol
D x |
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By *Ryan-Man
over a year ago
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I was in Nam being chased by 5000 little Vietnamese buggers screaming something unintelligible at me. I ripped bigger eyeholes in my bag and took cover behind Hamburger Hill, not before I took twenty seven hundred and four out mind you.
They soon took flight after that show of bravado.
I took a moment to close my eyes and rest and the next thing I knew the Pearl and Dean music was playing. |
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"Inspired by the insistance that taking a penalty can be the most nerve-racking moment of your life.
My number one would be the time in South America for drinks at a 'business mans' apartment and finding a loaded gun in the kitchen!"
on parade for the first time in the Navy, expecting to feck up and balls up big time, didnt, but did first time at sea |
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By (user no longer on site) OP
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"Resuscitating my son when he stopped breathing in my arms
And waiting to hear my daughters first cry when she'd been given a 5% chance of survival
I managed to bring my son back
And my daughter came out screaming strangely enough she broken all the rules since then too lol
D x "
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By (user no longer on site)
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"Inspired by the insistance that taking a penalty can be the most nerve-racking moment of your life.
My number one would be the time in South America for drinks at a 'business mans' apartment and finding a loaded gun in the kitchen!"
I have quite a few but a good one to come back to yours with would be the time I went back to a strangers house in Las Vegas only to find half of it given over to a massive pile of semi-automatic weapons...for when the world ends |
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By (user no longer on site)
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"Being told i had 6months to live after finding i had cancer , i had an emergency op and im still here 14 years later (someone up there must like me)and a loving wife"
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"had several in life, one when aged 19 that springs to mind was doing a 'final approach' on a culvert in Armagh and seeing what I thought was a trip wire against my lower leg..
turned out to be discarded fishing line.. "
Fuck!
Beats mine.... being shown where the rounds hit when someone emptied half a mag of AK at me... all you could see was a vague "me" shaped gap where there were no holes.... I thank god every time I think about it that he was d*unk.... he'd never have missed had he been sober..... nothing sounds like the close passage of rounds!!!  |
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By (user no longer on site)
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Rolled up to do a tech mangers job at gig, to be told the video director was ill and i had to step in and direct filming/vision mix, which wasn't a problem until someone turned up with some tapes to record it and casually mentioned it was being broadcast in India the following week to up to 100 million potential viewers- and i don't speak punjabi which makes it a little trickier to follow whats actually happening.
Then there was the time i stood at the back of a show i was in charge of for the first time, looked at all the stuff on stage, the 12000 audience and just had a little wimpy voice in my head say 'what happens if it all breaks?'
Then there was the time the condom split with the random woman i met while out one night...that was an interesting week until ladies week started |
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"Inspired by the insistance that taking a penalty can be the most nerve-racking moment of your life.
My number one would be the time in South America for drinks at a 'business mans' apartment and finding a loaded gun in the kitchen!"
Standing up to men who hurt me.  |
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"had several in life, one when aged 19 that springs to mind was doing a 'final approach' on a culvert in Armagh and seeing what I thought was a trip wire against my lower leg..
turned out to be discarded fishing line..
Fuck!
Beats mine.... being shown where the rounds hit when someone emptied half a mag of AK at me... all you could see was a vague "me" shaped gap where there were no holes.... I thank god every time I think about it that he was d*unk.... he'd never have missed had he been sober..... nothing sounds like the close passage of rounds!!! "
that's a quick glance 'up there' and a ty..
the sound of a high velocity round in close proximity does tend to sharpen the senses.. |
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By (user no longer on site)
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"had several in life, one when aged 19 that springs to mind was doing a 'final approach' on a culvert in Armagh and seeing what I thought was a trip wire against my lower leg..
turned out to be discarded fishing line..
Fuck!
Beats mine.... being shown where the rounds hit when someone emptied half a mag of AK at me... all you could see was a vague "me" shaped gap where there were no holes.... I thank god every time I think about it that he was d*unk.... he'd never have missed had he been sober..... nothing sounds like the close passage of rounds!!! "
The strap on my Bergen stopped an AK round. It felt like I'd been hit by a car! It left me with a cracked shoulder blade and some horrific bruising. |
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By *xpresMan
over a year ago
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The second my Truck started to jackknife in the snow @ Leeds Bradford airport... The very second when i realised i was gona hit the bridge n the thought of fuck this is gonna hurt... It did... |
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Work related, several severe incidents that I shall never forget. Some turned out well, others not.
Condition triggered by pregnancy & truly thought I was dying shortly after 2nd post pregnancy. Thank god for the NHS.
Sex, walking into a swingers club alone and knowing nobody. |
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getting a phone call from an unknown with my son (then 14) crying in the background - saying they had him in their car and he had been attacked - i thought they were the bad guys - turned out son had been mugged and had got away and ran to the first people he saw and these two men put him in the car (it was lashing it down) to calm him down - think i may have died a little inside at that moment |
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"getting a phone call from an unknown with my son (then 14) crying in the background - saying they had him in their car and he had been attacked - i thought they were the bad guys - turned out son had been mugged and had got away and ran to the first people he saw and these two men put him in the car (it was lashing it down) to calm him down - think i may have died a little inside at that moment "
So glad he was ok - nothing worse than someone you love (especially partner or children) in danger. |
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By (user no longer on site)
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"had several in life, one when aged 19 that springs to mind was doing a 'final approach' on a culvert in Armagh and seeing what I thought was a trip wire against my lower leg..
turned out to be discarded fishing line..
Fuck!
Beats mine.... being shown where the rounds hit when someone emptied half a mag of AK at me... all you could see was a vague "me" shaped gap where there were no holes.... I thank god every time I think about it that he was d*unk.... he'd never have missed had he been sober..... nothing sounds like the close passage of rounds!!!
The strap on my Bergen stopped an AK round. It felt like I'd been hit by a car! It left me with a cracked shoulder blade and some horrific bruising."
sorry i mis read and smiled - thank god for your strap on - i do actually know what a bergen is etc and wow lucky escape xx |
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By (user no longer on site)
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"getting a phone call from an unknown with my son (then 14) crying in the background - saying they had him in their car and he had been attacked - i thought they were the bad guys - turned out son had been mugged and had got away and ran to the first people he saw and these two men put him in the car (it was lashing it down) to calm him down - think i may have died a little inside at that moment
So glad he was ok - nothing worse than someone you love (especially partner or children) in danger. "
very long story cut short - he was terrified - threatened with a lump hammer - boys same age as him but he was short and they werent - lads were found and taken to court - two weeks after we had left their dad this was and the guilt was huge at the time, as he was walking from dads back home - all ok though |
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"getting a phone call from an unknown with my son (then 14) crying in the background - saying they had him in their car and he had been attacked - i thought they were the bad guys - turned out son had been mugged and had got away and ran to the first people he saw and these two men put him in the car (it was lashing it down) to calm him down - think i may have died a little inside at that moment
So glad he was ok - nothing worse than someone you love (especially partner or children) in danger.
very long story cut short - he was terrified - threatened with a lump hammer - boys same age as him but he was short and they werent - lads were found and taken to court - two weeks after we had left their dad this was and the guilt was huge at the time, as he was walking from dads back home - all ok though"
My daughters have never been that close to danger (well at least they never told me!), so i can only imagine how you felt - you can only ever say why!? As we Welsh say, big cwch |
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Work related - first time caring for a patient with a dnr
As a mum - waiting after section daughter was whipped off to scbu I didn't know why straight away as she was born in Germany. Turned out there was a digestive protein she wasn't producing. Long string bean of 13 now but that was a nerve wracking week
Family - mum getting all clear from cancer. Very tense day
Silly me - last flight I took very bad turbulence scared the shit outta me.
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By (user no longer on site)
over a year ago
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I hate at work when the customers are on the fruit machines and they have the option to gamble the £250 they just won and they hover over the gamble button then change their mind and hit collect instead. I know I shouldn't really care cos it's their money but still it's scary |
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i hate it when you are on the £250 bandit and you know by the laws of probability you have hit the jackpot but there are three light bulbs missing so you dont know what you have hit ..you alert a member of staff to this and they tell you that they can legally operate this way |
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By (user no longer on site)
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Mr.....trying to deal with a very troubled and extremely violent teenage step daughter especialy when alcohol is involved ...
Mrs ..... Same as above except she's my child  |
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By (user no longer on site)
over a year ago
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Mine would have to be buying my first house on my own after my divorce .. Sounds daft but it was in a rundown state and needed a complete overhaul .. I didn't know if I would be able to do it .. But two years later I have a lovely home |
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By (user no longer on site)
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Car went sideways at 85mph through a fence and into a tree. The fence was comin at me in a super slowmo for a second or 2 then reality kicked and just thought to myself ah fuck. Came away with a pinhole sized cut on my finger and covered in glass but was still able to drive home in it |
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Scuba diving into a wrong cave entrance...@ 30m depth.... Silt got kicked up....the tunnel was 1m wide and so low my tank was scraping on the ceiling...absolutely no visibility....kept calm......managed to turn around and feel my way out.... After about a minute or so seeing my dive buddies torch vaguely in the distance.....relief all round..... Happened 8 years ago...Still gives me the wobbles.....
Big lesson learnt....
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By *essiCouple
over a year ago
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Working a late shift on a Sunday evening on an RAF base in the mess on my own...clearing down after the meals had ended and thought id try a piece of grilled pork,popped it into my mouth and chewed it went down my windpipe and lodged there...I tried to rub my back which isn't easy as breathing got more difficult I went out to the lounge in the hope that someone could help me..sgnt macovey was and just said this'll hurt you more than me...
Heimlich manoeuvre later and I could breathe again...he was never asked to leave mess when meals were over ever again and it brought to an end lone worker on any shift....(her) |
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By (user no longer on site)
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My first was a bike accident which was head on landing back on terra firma leathers ripped to shreds and seeing my leg busted and my foot facing the wrong way and my life's blood going down the gutter thinking this is it but what a way to go . Thanks to a brilliant ambulance Crew and a good surgeon who put me back together I made a full recovery . My second was fighting a blaze at a local hotel I had stepped out of the room I was fighting the fire in when the ceiling collapsed and the roof came through just missing . I thank spirit for being with me that day . All the best to you all |
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By (user no longer on site)
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Mine was the time I jumped in the canal to get my dog
I just what to point out I can't swim
we was on a walk and he jumped in as he always does, I noticed he was struggling but regardless of me calling him and his attempts to swim he wasn't getting nowhere, after about 5 mins of him struggling he was starting to tier and had gone under a couple of times, I was shitting myself as I have a phobia of water but just couldn't stand there and watch him drown, to this day I still have no idea why I jumped in but I did, I didn't have a plan besides either a miracle was about to happen or we are both going to die here lucky the water only came to my chest so still very frightened i went over and released him from the undergrowth he had got cough up in and got out as quick as i could, I couldn't stop shaking and crying for ages after I have never felt fear like it but all I could focus on at the time was getting my dog it wasn't till he was free it hit me |
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