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3 hours ago
Avoiding disaster? Use common sense.
bighairyguy
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2 hours ago
In high school, for about 30 seconds I considered Joining the military. Avoided a disaster for all parties involved. (Nothing against the military, but my attitude would have not been a good fit.)
Also in the same general timeframe, I filled out a college application to be an Architecture major. Tore it up a few seconds later and filled it out for Engineering after a moment of clarity. I realized I was just a draftsman with delusions of grandeur.
ms_lara_croft
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2 hours ago
This didn't happen to me. It happened to a close friend of mine from college in January, 1982. She was driving to Washington, D. C. to visit relatives, and was heading toward the 14th Street bridge. It was snowing heavily, but she drove anyway. Totally insane. Hey, we were young and invincible.
My friends and I saw on the news that a Boeing 737 (Air Florida Flight 90) had crashed into the bridge. It hit seven cars and then dove into the Potomac River. We later learned the crash killed 78 people including 4 people who had been driving.
This was long before cell phones. My friends on campus were worried sick. One friend who had her parent's phone number called to find out if she was okay.
She was. She had driven over the bridge right before the crash had happened. She was okay. We were relieved. She saw the crash and was totally traumatized which was understandable. I don't think anyone would recover from such a near miss. Scared the hell out of me, too.
cherryl taggart
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When I was a kid, the school district lines were enforced somewhat haphazardly. Both sides of my family came from the same tiny town outside Atlanta, GA. Once you left the town limits, it was rural living for miles, unless you ventured towards the wild living of Atlanta. My parents, realizing their jobs were in Atlanta, decided to make their stand between tiny town and big metropolis. It was still rural, but living on that side saved them every morning and evening from dodging various slow vehicles as they commuted to the city.
The road they lived on was one of the first surface streets paved off the main drag that went straight into Atlanta. When the county was setting up school district lines, kids either walked the entire distance, or walked to bus stops on the main roads. So when my parents road was paved, it suddenly sprouted bus stops. Kids still had to walk without sidewalks, but everyone could sleep later and not be late for school. Once enough families had moved out from the town or out from Atlanta, new schools were planned. No one made a big deal about, your parents enrolled the family, the kids got on the yellow bus, and life went on.
Since both sides of my family had grown up in tiny town, we knew everyone, all the time. I went to elementary school and by the time I was ready for high school, the school board had built a shiny new high school for tiny town. Fortunately, it was actually just outside tiny town and was literally, 3 traffic lights from my house. My parents were thrilled that they would no longer have to navigate all the little streets if something happened and I needed to be picked up, like my brother and sister when they got ill or missed their bus. Just swing wide on their usual way home and sweep me up.
On the Sunday before school started, my family went to church like normal. Chatting with the families of others settling back into the school routine, my parents heard the news about the new high school had a brand new principal. This was great news, as he attended church here and was actually in my parents Sunday School class.
Later that afternoon, the doorbell rang. It was Mr. Dewey and Mama welcomed him in. He was carrying some papers and seemed distressed. He had been notified that 8 families were enrolled in the wrong district and ours was one of them. He had my school file and told my parents that on Monday morning, they had to enroll me at the rival school that was in another tiny town closer to Atlanta. A bus was available, but because it was going from the far end of the school zone, I would need to be outside by 6:30.
My parents followed the instructions and I spent 4 years wearing the hand me down colors of the wrong school. My church friends felt sorry for me, but regularly left me out of conversations about upcoming events at high school. The other 7 families on our road tried to make the best of it by joining things like band, cheerleading, athletics, etc. Since my siblings were now in college, I saw how much more freedom they had in choosing classes, start times, etc., while I was being told that I had to take only 5 classes and 1 study hall every day. Didn't matter that school was super easy, because I had no one to distract me from getting my assignments done almost as soon as they were assigned.
By the end of the Christmas break, my parents were seriously worried. I came home every day, ate and stayed in my room, no more running with friends, because they were all doing extracurricular stuff at their school. So, my parents gave written permission for me to take 6 classes. I ended up taking summer classes as well, and left high school at 16. I immediately signed up for community college and got a job away from farming, child bearing, and in Atlanta, which was crucial. People I grew up with mostly stayed near tiny town, and did whatever their parents did, like Pete who became a plumber because his dad was a plumber. Whether he was any good at it or even wanted to be a plumber was irrelevant.
That was almost 50 years ago. The only times I see anyone from tiny town is when there's a death in the family, and those are becoming fewer every year as more of the old folks have followed their kids to other communities. Every once in a while, tiny town will make the news, and if someone gets an audio clip, it gives me shudders. If my parents, who were country as overalls, had not seen the advantages of proximity to big town evil living, I might never have found the weird life I love. I would have been molded like so many other small town kids, thinking it was better to be surrounded by the familiar and stale. I would probably watch only FoxNews.
Disaster averted, definitely.
HighZoolander
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31 minutes ago
I voted for Kamala Harris.
Really dodged a bullet there...
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34 minutes ago
My life is currently on the edge of one... I'll let you know when I make it through.
SloppyFrenchKisser
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32 minutes ago
After years of driving with a manual transmission I felt I had it mastered.
One day, with my brother in the passenger seat, the light turned green.
I accidently popped the clutch.
The car stalled.
Then from our right some asshole came speeding through a red light.
He passed 2 feet in front of our car.
If I hadn't popped that clutch we would have been T-boned.
And I probably would have lost my brother.
ThinkingGuy
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35 minutes ago
I didn't marry her.
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30 minutes ago
ThinkingGuy: I didn't marry her.
I'm waiting for one of my ex's to post "I didn't marry him".
But serously, the bullet I dodged by not marrying one woman directly led to me meeting my wife of 35+ years.
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under a minute ago
So, so many. When I bought my current car in 2014 I took it skiing with a buddy and while we were enjoying our apres beer it started snowing hard. I had not yet put snow tires on and driving home going around a curve we lost traction and started sliding toward the guardrail. Oh what a panic, brand new car about to get wrecked. Also we were in kind of a remote area so help was not forthcoming. The car slid all the way up to the guardrail and I braced for the crunch when at the very last second the wheels caught and veered away. Had it slid another inch the evening would have gone very differently. As well as days to come.
/Not avoiding disaster would probably be more interesting
Russell_Secord
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under a minute ago
Can't help you, I seem to have a knack for walking blithely into disasters
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under a minute ago
Since the storm last night has left me with a bunch of trees to take care of later this morning when i can fire up the chainsaw, i'll share the chainsaw story.
Neighbor and I had a tree that straddled our property line. We both wanted to get rid of it, so decided we would split the cost, and called a couple of tree companies. Everyone wanted 1500-2k to do it. Now both of us are handy, i know my way around a chain saw, but this tree was bigger than anything i had taken down before, and the large ones I had worked on were ones that you didn't really care which way they fell.
In the case of this tree, we ran the numbers, and worked out that if we screwed it up, the only thing it could hit would be his shed, or my fence, and that was only if it went REALLY wrong, as the tree could fall in any direction in 355 degrees, without hitting anything. Even better was it had a natural lean AWAY from the 2 things we cared about.
Being practical, we said, "well if we do screw it up, the worst thing that will happen is we will hit the fence, or the shed, and even then, we would still come out ahead vs the tree guys.
So the next saturday we get out there and get to work. Our wives are watching us intently just waiting for it to go south and say i told you so.
I start cutting into the tree and my saw just plunges in. Whole tree is rotted inside out. I turn to my neighbor and let him know this thing is going to go where it wants to go, and to watch out. A little more cutting, and the tree barber chairs.
Now again, not a huge problem ordinarily. Something you try and avoid, and far more dangerous for my chainsaw appetite, but whatever, i've been there before.
But when the tree went, it went RIGHT at the farking shed AND Fence. See, when we did our math, we didn't consider a small part of that 10 degree danger zone would entail the tree smashing both the shed AND the fence, which we didn't consider in our cheapness calculus.
Tree landed exactly between the fence and shed, with inches of clearance on both sides.
Nieghbor didn't skip a beat, came running over to me while our wives watched for a high five yelling "Nailed it, I told you so!"
Our wives now tell everyone, "Oh, just ask line and Jim, you should see how good they are" every time someone brings up getting rid of a trees, and then we have to make excuses as to why we can't help.
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under a minute ago
I was scheduled to work in Manhattan on 9/11. It got pushed back a week (then a lot longer)
bedonkadonk
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under a minute ago
I was born just before abortion became legal.
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under a minute ago
Last summer I was in NJ stuck in traffic to take a left exit on a highway. Things cleared up and we got moving and just as I got a few car lengths behind me, that car got rear ended and skidded out into the center lane. Where it promptly get mashed by a semi at full speed. It got hit so hard it flipped up over the jersey barrier and landed on the other side of the road.
Axeofjudgement
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under a minute ago
Pfft I am the disaster.
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