I quit a job after my boss yelled at everybody for faking being sick when one guy came in with the flu and passed it around the office. He claimed that people don’t get sick by being near each other. One guy got it so bad he was hospitalized for 2 weeks. I quit with no back up in October 2019. By February 2020, his company went out of business

Walking to work in the winter. Half way through a step forward under a skybridge when an icicle taller than me (6′) and probably 2′ around at the base crashes down right in front of my nose. If my bus had been a half second earlier, if I had walked even a tiny bit faster pace…I would have been impaled from brains to balls. I was frozen in place for a minute, quietly surveying my near-death. There was another pedestrian nearby who witnessed it and the wide-eyed, ashen look on his face as he stared at me confirmed just how narrowly fortunate I was that day.

My wife and I were prepared to buy a nice riverfront property in 2019, but the owners ( her dad and uncle) were dragging their feet. We had our down payment, we were approved for the mortgage, and we had even been living there paying rent. Then the river rose 30ft/10m and we had to evacuate. The water kept rising. The house was destroyed before we bought it. So we didn’t buy it.

My wife dragged my ass to the dermatologist for a cyst I have had for years. While there the doc noticed a mole on my ankle that he didnt like. Turned out to be melanoma. Would have never gone if my wife didnt force me.

I was engaged to someone, but then came to my senses and broke it off. Nine months later I found out she got married to someone else, then about 1 year after that she killed her husband.

When driving in the upper peninsula in Michigan last summer a truck full of logs flipped and barreled straight into my car. Completely demolished the car, someone else had to come open the door for me after the fact because they were all pinned shut by logs. I walked out of there without a scratch on my body.

Was chatting with a woman at the bar, nothing flirtatious just casual banter. I told her I needed to head out and she asked if I could give her a ride. I was headed that way so it wasn’t a big deal. We pull into her driveway and I can see a guy at a computer in the living room through the window. I ask who it is and she replied “that’s my husband, he’s a pansy. I’ll bring him outside and you scare him off, then we can have the house all to ourselves for the night” Every alarm bell in my head was ringing and all I could think was ‘how do I get this crazy out of my truck without a big scene?’ so I said “sounds good” as soon as she was half way to the door I put it gear and burned rubber.

Almost wound up in the I-35W bridge collapse in Minneapolis years ago. My uncle, cousin, and I were on our way to a Twins game. We were originally planning to take the route that crossed the bridge, but last minute decided to take a more “scenic” route. After it happened, we were talking and we figured it probably would have been within a couple minutes of the time the bridge collapsed that we would have been on the bridge.

We were in Italy on a school field trip. We decided to play “schweinehaufen”, pig pile, dog pile? Anyways on person is declared the pig and everyone has to jump on them. We played this on a beach at night. Just sand, no danger, right? Well, the last round we got up and realized we formed this pile next to a 1m metal pole sticking out of the ground. It was maybe ten centimetres away and could have easily impaled the first 3-4 people. We didn’t play that game again.

The second floor of the house I was renting collapsed a month after I moved out. apparently a water pipe sprung a leak shortly after we left. We weren’t in any trouble.

Met a girl online. Went on one date. She seemed… off. Three months later she’s on f-ing Entertainment Tonight for breaking up the marriage of a famous sports reporter and threatening his wife at their home.

I used to own a gym with a partner. I sold my half of the company and took a boring but stable government job about 3 months before the pandemic.

When my nephew was 9 months old, I brought him to live with me. A week later, someone broke into the house I took him from and killed all the dogs inside by slitting their throats. I still get the sweats every time I wonder what would have happened, if he’d been there.

In school, was about 16, at a house party. Friend’s older brother and a bunch of guy’s friends show up, bust out some coke. I noped out. Just bad feelings, so called my mom and left. Party was busted. Some got jail time. Missed it by 15 minutes

I had just moved to Colorado by myself and for whatever reason my mom was encouraging me to get out of the apt and go see the new Batman movie. That was the night of the theater shooting, and not only was that the theater but it was also the showing I was considering going to. I stayed up late playing League of Legends instead and woke up to a LOT of texts and missed calls. Probably not ideal for my family’s blood pressure that I slept in pretty late that day too.

On a road trip in college with 4 friends. We stopped halfway for a pit stop because I had explosive diarrhea and was getting more sick by the minute. Friends carried on to Vegas and left me with one of the guys who rented us a car to return home. The friends that carried on got into a roll over: 1 died, 2 will be injured for life.

I had some chest pains one night and woke up my wife to tell her. She got a little scared that it might be a heart attack and we agreed that I should go to the ER. The nurses were pretty sure it was a false alarm but would run an EKG as is common practice. In my head I was hoping that the chest pain would come back, not to prove a heart attack, but so that we can find out what the chest pain was. The EKG was done by one veteran nurse and a new nurse. I was watching over their shoulders. Something was flashing on the screen that made both nurses look at each other with disbelief. They ran it again and one nurse went out to the station for help. The other stayed with me and very nicely told my wife and daughter to go back out to the waiting room. A few seconds later 5-6 more people came into the room slowly and calmly and began prepping me for something. It turns out that I was having my second heart attack that night in the ER. The doctors and nurses found an obstruction in my heart and were prepping me to have it cleared and a stent placed. When I got out of surgery, the doctor who placed the stent told me “you probably picked the best time and place to have a heart attack, right here in the ER”