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It was a scarier moment for the person in front of you, Vogue. It scared him to death.
posted by
johnmacnab
on May 12, 2008 at 6:40 PM
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Hi Vogue - I had a few sailing experience that were "near death" - one in Block Island Sound, in conditions like pea soup seeing dead ahead the bow of a massive ferry coming right towards us! We obviously got out of the way. And another time - gale force winds in Nantucket and no safe harbor. We were caught between rocks and a sand bar waiting for a bridge to open to allow us into a protected lagoon - but the bridgemaster had gone home due to "bad weather"!
On another note, I did a stint as a counselor for a Women's Shelter and was going to retrieve some items from a client's trailer (she told me her husband was at work) when he came out of the door with a shotgun. I've never driven so fast in reverse - with shots pinging the ground beside me as a raced backwards! Talk about throwing up afterwards...
Mal
posted by
gapcohen
on May 12, 2008 at 3:54 PM
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Whew! Definitly scary.
I can't really think of a time when something so scary happened to me.
Glad everything worked out alright.
posted by
Kolekshuns
on May 12, 2008 at 8:07 AM
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No, I haven't had any such scary experiences yet!
posted by
Straightforward
on May 12, 2008 at 6:16 AM
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Vogue
Yep, that would scare me! My scariest experience came sitting in the passenger seat of a tractor (not a
farm tractor), barreling down the highway at a fair clip, running into a sudden fog bank; and then, looming in the fog, a couple of hundred feet away, there was the rear end of a trailer, stationary, as we were approaching at about 80 miles/hr. I remember it vividly, and though it was scary, it didn't appear to be so at the moment, strangely enough! My strongest feeling was one of surprise: "So this is how my life ends?" We slammed into that trailer a few seconds later, but apart from a puncture wound in my thigh, that I didn't find out about later, I came away unscathed...
posted by
Nautikos
on May 12, 2008 at 5:56 AM
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That is a really scary experience!!!!
posted by
Loribeth215
on May 12, 2008 at 4:07 AM
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Yes, do tattle!
What company was it???!
posted by
shahdlou
on May 12, 2008 at 3:08 AM
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Amazing story my friend!
An excellent reason to be grateful for each day if one is needed! Thank you and God bless
posted by
mariaki
on May 12, 2008 at 2:20 AM
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That experience would have given me a heart attack...And I'm only 26!
My car spun off the road on black ice once and I really thought it was the end. It's the moments when you realise just how fragile life really is that frighten you the most. You suddenly start thinking about all the stuff you didn't get to do or say...that's why I have a no waiting policy. If I want something I go after it. Carpe Diem and all that jazz.
posted by
helenography
on May 12, 2008 at 2:12 AM
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wow!...one heck of a story!!
posted by
NighthawkNY
on May 11, 2008 at 8:31 PM
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VOGUE ~ WOW...I am too stunned reading this...wow...and now tell me, you do wear your belt now don't you? (cause you reminded me of the importance of it is why...) ~
~Elyse
posted by
elysianfields
on May 11, 2008 at 8:08 PM
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Our car crash gave me time to brace myself before we were hit and spun
around but I'll never know why I didn't cover my head with my arms. That would have saved me from months in the hospital.
posted by
WindTapper
on May 11, 2008 at 7:47 PM
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I can think of several but it's been a lovely day and so I'll just say that
into my life more than a little rain has fallen. More like a flood!!!!!!!! Flying is scary anytime but this was one awful landing and not even a
'Sorry chaps bit rough wot"
posted by
Kabu
on May 11, 2008 at 6:55 PM
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saul, wig, vogue ... damn, so sorry you had to go through such horrible
experiences. Wig, my heart just broke for you reading your story. How awful - that little life inside you never knowing her father. My daughter's daddy died when she was 12, but she at least got a chance to know him. I wish I could hug you - you are a strong woman sweetie. Happy mother's day. I can't even tell my most scary story now.... maybe later
posted by
VictoriaP
on May 11, 2008 at 3:42 PM
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I am so fearful of flying. So sorry for the horrible experience all around! sam
posted by
sam444
on May 11, 2008 at 2:04 PM
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Mine was when I found out that my daughter's father had passed so suddenly..I remember falling to the ground in tears and not wanting anyone to touch me..I felt as though there was no reason to live..It wasn't until I felt my daughter (she was still in my womb) sweetly kick my ribs..I was reminded why I was to live..In that brief tornrent of emotion I played with idea of my own death only to be pulled back knowing the reason for my life was to share the life of my unborn daughter's ..To raise her as I would should he still have lived..
posted by
Wigopa_
on May 11, 2008 at 11:51 AM
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I almost drowned in a river once (and once was enough). Walking across, I
lost my footing. After awhile, I stopped struggling, letting it go, and that's when my foot scraped a sand bar and up out of the water I came, neck deep but high enough to breathe and make my way to a bank. I still can't swim...
posted by
saul_relative
on May 11, 2008 at 10:06 AM
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