I think most people have a few real close calls like that in their lives.
Wish I had the footage from my dad's old warehouse; he nearly killed me with one of his forklifts. I was on my knees doing inventory on one of the aisles, and he went over the load rating of one particular lift by picking up two pallets of books at once. I rolled out of the way as they toppled into the space I just occupied.
In highschool, a group of us went sledding on a large hill of a dirt road at nighttime. It wasn't a high-traffic road, but you might see a couple of cars pass each hour. We figured it would be less than that anyway. It was just a country road on a snowy night, after all.
At one point, after I'd made a trip down the hill, the group - there were perhaps six of us - gathered near the center of the hill, just sitting in the snow. Everyone but me was sitting on the side of the road. Not me. Not retarded me. I was laying on my back in the center of the road looking up at the night sky. What did I care? At that hour, you'd see the headlights from far off: plenty of time to move.
My friend Nick started scolding me for laying there. I wasn't listening. After a while, he crawled out into the road and grabbed a hold of my coat and started pulling. He wasn't dragging me, but it was jarring enough that I didn't care to fight over it, and I followed him back to the side of the road with the others.
It wasn't half-a-second that I'd been out of the center of the road when a car came careening over the top of the hill. I could have touched it as it went by.
Had my buddy not cared enough to crawl out there and start physically pulling me, I'd have been ran over, without question. Before that, we hadn't seen a single car that night; it was totally quiet on the walk home as well.
I remember when we were in HS hanging out by the train tracks to get drunk w my friends. No real dramatic close calls but the very idea of getting blind drunk at 15 or 16 next to train tracks seems so fucking stupid now I just cringe. What the fuck was I thinking? I honestly feel like I had no logic in my head at all at that age.
Haha. You probably didn't. The developmental psychology is interesting in this area. Your physiology actually promotes you to become illogical. Risk-taking skyrockets. When older people call teens stupid, they're right.
This comment brings back memories. Example: Dad had a ceiling block hoist mounted on a rotted beam 15 feet overhead. It was an older model, so heavier than the modern ones. Shit broke while I was lifting out some motor or other and landed like 2 inches from me (at 8 years old). We just kinda looked at each other for a bit, then moved on to something else. I don't think either of us learned anything from it.
Possibly on old voat, I know I told the story about chaffing my nuts on a particularly hot day in said warehouse, and grabbing the Icy Hot instead of the tube of novacaine...
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Wish I had the footage from my dad's old warehouse; he nearly killed me with one of his forklifts. I was on my knees doing inventory on one of the aisles, and he went over the load rating of one particular lift by picking up two pallets of books at once. I rolled out of the way as they toppled into the space I just occupied.
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At one point, after I'd made a trip down the hill, the group - there were perhaps six of us - gathered near the center of the hill, just sitting in the snow. Everyone but me was sitting on the side of the road. Not me. Not retarded me. I was laying on my back in the center of the road looking up at the night sky. What did I care? At that hour, you'd see the headlights from far off: plenty of time to move.
My friend Nick started scolding me for laying there. I wasn't listening. After a while, he crawled out into the road and grabbed a hold of my coat and started pulling. He wasn't dragging me, but it was jarring enough that I didn't care to fight over it, and I followed him back to the side of the road with the others.
It wasn't half-a-second that I'd been out of the center of the road when a car came careening over the top of the hill. I could have touched it as it went by.
Had my buddy not cared enough to crawl out there and start physically pulling me, I'd have been ran over, without question. Before that, we hadn't seen a single car that night; it was totally quiet on the walk home as well.
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ARTIST: FALL OUT GOY
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The only one that bothered me was the birds at the end. Man, that was some shit!