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Close Calls

Posted by Rozie818 • 8/04/09 • Subscribe to this Discussion [RSS] • Report This Topic
Topics: accidents, close calls, danger, Faith

Have you ever had a close call with danger, harm or even death?

As far as I can remember, I have had a pretty hard life. But, I have missed the bullet on so many occasions, that I have to consider myself lucky.

Just last week I was baking some chicken nuggets in a pyrex baking dish. They I was too lazy to take out a frying pan and do a quick fry to them. So I added a little oil to the pyrex dish on top of the stove. I went out to the deck with the puppies for a moment to let the oil heat up and then BOOM! I run back to the kitchen I had a fire going and the shattered glass was all over like a fragmentation grenade. If I didn't go to the deck, that would have blown up in my face.

And that was just last week.

Have any of you had close calls?
What were they

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  1. ThriftShopRomantic
    8/04/09
    ThriftShopRomantic
    Yup, almost drowned in a pool on vacation once when I was about seven. There was a lifeguard there who just stood there and didn't help.

    My mother, who wasn't a very good swimmer, had to dive in to get me.

    I've had better vacations.
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  2. Rozie818
    8/04/09
    Rozie818
    @TSR
    Drowning can be scary, I'm not good with the water element and had a few moments when I thought I could be. Mostly embarrass and looking silly. Though 1 time upstate NY in a lake, I had to be rescued. Good thing the lifeguard there was getting paid.

    I can't believe the lifeguard just stood there, useless bastard.
    At least the mother instincts took over and saved you.
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    1. ThriftShopRomantic
      8/04/09
      ThriftShopRomantic
      Yes, it definitely shows the importance of taking a few swimming lessons, or at least wearing flotational devices when you're a kid.

      I'm glad your lifeguard was on-the-ball!
  3. Rozie818
    8/04/09
    Rozie818
    Actually he was pissed off. He was waving me in and I kept going further out like a idiot. After he dragged me ashore I was only allowed in the shallow (knee deep) part, while my friends were diving off the raft in the middle of the lake. I was 18 at the time, I never would have worn a flotation device at that age.

    But the pressures on the chest, and the difficulty to breathe was scary as hell.
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