Times where you nearly 'bought the farm', had things been slightly different

[tomtomagain]

.... so basically everyone has very nearly been killed at least once and most of the incidents involved cars.

Maybe those driverless cars won't be such a bad idea after all...

[SimonMac]

Not car related, but while Scuba Diving in Egypt.

Was buddied up with a diver who had just passed his Open Water, was his first real dive, he freaked out underwater and knocked his reg out of his mout. I swam over and tried to give him my octopus (spare regulator) but in his panic and commotion he cracked me on the mask breaking my nose, pushing me back on some rocks where I was knocked out for a few seconds.

We both got to the surface and the guy was very sheepish as he found out he would be stuck in a decompression chamber with me for several hours as I raged at him and the dive school for their incompetence.

[VectraMan]

About a month after passing my test I was driving my Mum's car a bit too fast and lost it on a bend coming over the brow of a hill. It went one way, then the other, and I ended up off the road in the dirt on the wrong side amazingly not doing any damage. If anyone had been coming the other way..

The other one that springs to mind is being on the back of a friend's motorbike and we came round a corner to see two cars coming straight at us; one overtaking the other into a blind corner. Somehow my friend took to the dirt, avoided both and kept it on the wheels. That was one of those "Did we survive that?" moments because it all happened so fast.

Getting into a tank slapper at over 100mph at the Nürburgring certainly grabbed my attention. But I got out of it, kept calm and carried on and made a mental note not to do that corner flat the next time.

[MrMarkyMark]

Not car related, but while Scuba Diving in Egypt.

Was buddied up with a diver who had just passed his Open Water, was his first real dive, he freaked out underwater and knocked his reg out of his mout. I swam over and tried to give him my octopus (spare regulator) but in his panic and commotion he cracked me on the mask breaking my nose, pushing me back on some rocks where I was knocked out for a few seconds.

We both got to the surface and the guy was very sheepish as he found out he would be stuck in a decompression chamber with me for several hours as I raged at him and the dive school for their incompetence.

Bloody hell mate.

Yep, nothing good about diving with inexperienced people, have had my regulator kicked out of my mouth a number of times

[quackhandle]

Jumping into the Thames at 1am (In March) with a girl I fancied after too many vodkas. Completely idiotic.

I shudder now when I read news reports of people doing the same at a wedding, night out, etc and their body being found a few miles away.

qh

[MrMarkyMark]

Jumping into the Thames at 1am (In March) with a girl I fancied after too many vodkas. Completely idiotic.

I shudder now when I read news reports of people doing the same at a wedding, night out, etc and their body being found a few miles away.

qh

Another real shocker, bet that was ferkin cold...hope it "worked out" for you in the end

[quackhandle]

Another real shocker, bet that was ferkin cold...hope it "worked out" for you in the end

With the girl, no as we'd known each other for ages and didn't want it to "get weird". Worked out yes, as I survived what was a bloody stupid thing to do.

qh

[FatLazyContractor]

I once had a bunga bunga party at my home in Yorkshire. There were 17 women and just myself.

I shagged each one at least 10 times and by next morning I was tulip exhausted.

HTH

[FatLazyContractor]

Why don't you Walter Mitties wait for MF to post his flying experiences?

[MrMarkyMark]

FTFY

I once had a bunga bunga party at my home in Yorkshire. There was just myself.

I must have least 100 times and by next morning I was tulip exhausted.

HTH