First off, I want to say I feel I've been pretty lucky compared to most of you guys. No major deaths of people close to me or anything (and I'm 28.)
The worst thing I remember is breaking off an engagement with a girl. She drove us out to our local state park, ran up a 50 foot observation tower and threatened to jump. I talked her down, but she made a fairly legit suicide attempt a couple years later and was diagnosed as manic-depressive.
She's on meds and gets therapy now and from what I hear seems to be okay, though.
Bad experiences are being stuck in a job you hate, a gnawing feeling of boredom that doesn't leave you for months. Near death experiences are at least exciting, I can remember a few:
- almost drowning in winter storm surf
- riding a bike along a highway and having a tractor trailer jacknife so close that the back end brushed my coat as it spun around
- having someone in NYC pull a gun on me ( I began to realize that it might not be a good situation when I noticed the gun had a silencer )
- getting into a fistfight with a mobster and having him threaten to kill me afterwards ( obviously he didn't )
- almost sleeping with the most disease-ridden woman in the county I live in
I hate to come off as a prick but GOOD MOVE jeffyboy. I swore off crazy chicks back in high school. Then I married one But she's crazy about me
Anyway this reminds me! The time I almost drowned. We were at this beach in Hawaii that had little pools all over the beach that you could swim in if you were a kid. I was a little kid and it was deep enough to drowned in. Long story short I'm in the middle and going down, hit bottom and push back up down up down up hanging on. This will make my mom sound like the worst mother ever but she thought I was okay. My sister got jealous of the attention I was getting and came in the with raft. As you can imagine that's what saved me. I still remember what it looked like from the bottom looking up to the surface. It was kind of classic movie footage look.
I feel off a thirty-five foot cliff and landed head first onto railroad tracks. Actually not entirely head first, my left shoulder and the side of my head took the brunt of the impact.
I ended up with a concussion, broken collar bone and some kick-ass cuts on my back from partially sliding down the top of the cliff.
All in all it was not that bad. The doctors were surprised I wasn't in worse shape but I'm pretty good at falling at not hurting myself too badly.
Actually, if that's the worst that has happened to me I've been pretty lucky.
I hate to come off as a prick but GOOD MOVE jeffyboy. I swore off crazy chicks back in high school. Then I married one But she's crazy about me
It sucks because that experience makes me want to be really selective about who I get close to, but for some reason I tend to attract the wild, chaotic type of girl.
They've also provided some of the best experiences of my life!
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The worst thing I remember is breaking off an engagement with a girl. She drove us out to our local state park, ran up a 50 foot observation tower and threatened to jump. I talked her down, but she made a fairly legit suicide attempt a couple years later and was diagnosed as manic-depressive.
She's on meds and gets therapy now and from what I hear seems to be okay, though.
Jeff
- almost drowning in winter storm surf
- riding a bike along a highway and having a tractor trailer jacknife so close that the back end brushed my coat as it spun around
- having someone in NYC pull a gun on me ( I began to realize that it might not be a good situation when I noticed the gun had a silencer )
- getting into a fistfight with a mobster and having him threaten to kill me afterwards ( obviously he didn't )
- almost sleeping with the most disease-ridden woman in the county I live in
Anyway this reminds me! The time I almost drowned. We were at this beach in Hawaii that had little pools all over the beach that you could swim in if you were a kid. I was a little kid and it was deep enough to drowned in. Long story short I'm in the middle and going down, hit bottom and push back up down up down up hanging on. This will make my mom sound like the worst mother ever but she thought I was okay. My sister got jealous of the attention I was getting and came in the with raft. As you can imagine that's what saved me. I still remember what it looked like from the bottom looking up to the surface. It was kind of classic movie footage look.
Next.
I ended up with a concussion, broken collar bone and some kick-ass cuts on my back from partially sliding down the top of the cliff.
All in all it was not that bad. The doctors were surprised I wasn't in worse shape but I'm pretty good at falling at not hurting myself too badly.
Actually, if that's the worst that has happened to me I've been pretty lucky.
Originally posted by Scott
I hate to come off as a prick but GOOD MOVE jeffyboy. I swore off crazy chicks back in high school. Then I married one
It sucks because that experience makes me want to be really selective about who I get close to, but for some reason I tend to attract the wild, chaotic type of girl.
They've also provided some of the best experiences of my life!
8)
Jeff
Originally posted by bunge
I've been near dead a couple of times, but they're fond memories now. That's the beauty. They can all become fond memories if you don't die.
i've been near death twice. i can't they were nice experiences.
also i've been in 7 potentially deadly auto accidents, no injuiries for anyone thankfully
Originally posted by burningwheel
i've been near death twice. i can't they were nice experiences.
Well for me I'm just happy to have survived and learned from what I did or didn't do correctly or incorrectly. Such is life.