Driving down the road minding your own business and WHAM!
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MSCH
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like they say, if your time is up, your time is up.
I think we have all had experiences that if our timing or placement have been a little different we might not be chatting about it.
I took a 22 bullet thru my pants leg some years ago
inside a apartment.
seems someone had a 22 pistol, someone else pulled the trigger thinking it was not loaded..
Said what the hell was that at the crack of the gun...
3 of us in the room... first thought is where did the bullet go..
then one of the other people said " Look at your pants"
bullet went thru my pants leg of my jeans, in the calf area never touched me.
these weren't even flared or bell bottom style jeans, they were straight legs.
I don't think the bullet missed by by 1/2 inch.. because we stuck a pencil thru the holes.. and just wondered.
I think we have all had experiences that if our timing or placement have been a little different we might not be chatting about it.
I took a 22 bullet thru my pants leg some years ago
inside a apartment.
seems someone had a 22 pistol, someone else pulled the trigger thinking it was not loaded..
Said what the hell was that at the crack of the gun...
3 of us in the room... first thought is where did the bullet go..
then one of the other people said " Look at your pants"
bullet went thru my pants leg of my jeans, in the calf area never touched me.
these weren't even flared or bell bottom style jeans, they were straight legs.
I don't think the bullet missed by by 1/2 inch.. because we stuck a pencil thru the holes.. and just wondered.
Azjeff
Active member
Saw it a while ago. Brutal. Like watching Russian dashcam videos.
Is this where we have a philosophical discussion about predestination?
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NopeSaw it a while ago. Brutal. Like watching Russian dashcam videos.
Is this where we have a philosophical discussion about predestination?
MSCH
Well-known member
Saw it a while ago. Brutal. Like watching Russian dashcam videos.
Is this where we have a philosophical discussion about predestination?
better explanation is how random life is.
Like when I was 18 riding my motorcycle 135 MPH and got death wobble. I used up 8.99 lives in that few seconds until I got slowed down enough to stop the wobble. Try taking your hands off the handle bars at 125 MPH. You make a lot of promises.
MSCH
Well-known member
in response to that thought, yeah, I get it... I had every intention of working until age 62 or 67........... I have a 30 year retirement at my job, I would hit 30 years service at age 53... but I was not going to quit then................ I was going for 40+ years at that job, which would have let me retire with 70% of my best 5 years salary... twelve years ago in a short time frame my wife got cancer and both my parents died all at the same time.. and it was like a giant window opened and I could see more clearly that there aren't any guarantees... and I decided I wasn't going to work until I died... I retired at age 59... so I could go a few places while I still could.. hence the RV life.. and I still have those random things happen like the car in the video...
OLEJOE
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Had I been the one videoing, I would have been sliding when it turned sideways. I saw a video years ago of a class A coming up behind 2 trucks struggling up a hill on the interstate with a car beside him where he couldn’t get over. But the driver never took the cruise control off and side swiped one of the trucks trying to get over and pass him. Tore the whole side off of the class A Driver must have been looking at the ground right in front of him. Never touched the brakes. I see it all the time. People driving looking no further than the end of their hood.
Lack of situational awareness.
I try to look at my mirrors and way ahead as much as I look just in front of the vehicle. It's also been proven that if you talk to yourself, either out loud or in your head, about what is going on around you, you are much less likely to get into an accident.