Terrible Stuff When You Least Expect It

[badgersprite]

You weren't doing anything wrong. You were just going about your day, having a good time, when, all of a sudden, BAM! Out of nowhere, something goes horribly wrong and you're left dazed, confused, and asking, "What the hell just happened?"

I'm cursed, so I've had a few experiences. I'll just share two to get this started.

When I was about three or four I went down to the farm where my grandparents live, and they showed me a few of their prized horses as they went around and fed them. Then, suddenly, the mare kicked a colt behind her. The colt freaked out and started bucking, tripped over a trough and fell on top of me. Talk about bad luck. I don't remember much after that. oO Go figure.

Another randomly horrible event happened when I was visiting a friend's house. She lived really close to a park, so I borrowed her Dad's old bike and we cycled over to it. Mind you, most of this trip was uphill, until we came to the road just outside the park, which cars routinely fly along. So, just as we come to this road, I squeeze the handbrakes, only to find that they don't work - they've completely rusted - so my bike rolls downhill directly into the path of an oncoming car before I have any time to react. BANG!

Luckily, the lady saw me coming and hit the brakes as hard as she could, so I wasn't badly hurt. I just kind of rolled onto the top of her vehicle and collided with the pavement. Saw my life flash before my eyes for a moment there, though.

So, when has horrible crap come along to ruin your day?

 

[Superior Mind]

I had a close relative go completely insane and try to commit suicide while I was the only one around to stop them. That was fun.

 

[Abedeus]

Well, I was trying to hold the door for some girls that were going home from school. I tried to stop them with my foot (the doors are pretty heavy when they close down - it can hurt if someone doesn't stop them immediately). I touched the door at the base, but then my shoe slipped down and I slipped on the... doormat. Someone must've washed the floor before, because it escaped from under my foot, and I was trying to move the very same second. Effect? Neither of my feet was touching the surface. I landed in a... semi-crouching position, something between sitting and lying, with my hand on the ground and the other one trying to catch balance.

It was hilarious for everyone, even I laughed, but if not for my karate experience and quick reflexes, I would've had at least shattered my leg's tendons (trying to support 85kg of human + 5 kg of books in a suspended motion) or had a nasty concussion.

That's why this is my philosophy:

One day, a man has everything. The next day he blows up a 400 billion space station, and the next day he has nothing. It makes you think.

 

[similar.squirrel]

I spend most of my toe expecting these things, so I can't really give examples.
Erm..I was walking up to school, and somebody tossed a bucket of water over a 2m wall to my right. I got most of it, and couldn't see the culprit. They were aiming for the people in front of me.
But that wasn't too bad.

 

[Sick boy]

My life is just general crazy. Won't go into detail but if my mother was shot in the face, I wouldn't cry and most people who know me call me very nice, so that should tell you something about my mother then -_-

 

[Amnestic]

I'm cursed, so I've had a few experiences.

I'd like to focus on this sentence in particular as I think the best story will originate from how, why and exactly what 'cursed' you.

I had a close relative go completely insane and try to commit suicide while I was the only one around to stop them. That was fun.

This, except I wasn't the one who saw her die, and also we weren't close because I didn't like her.

Actually, her death was kind of amusing.

So really, nothing like this at all.

I don't want to talk about anything more recent, though.

I'm willing to bet that 95% of what you use in anecdotes (no matter how small) on the Escapist is a complete fabrication.

 

[Cody211282]

I had my girlfriend of you years call me up to tell me she doesnt love me anymore (after i spent everything I had to go out and see her, she was on an internship in DC, I'm in utah) then my parents told me they were seporating and I had to help my mom move out of the house, oh and i had just moved back in after living on my own for 2 years, and my friend who has been deeply depressed tried to kill himself the next day.


It was a wonderful week to be me!

 

[SomethingUnrelated]

Yeah, ex-dad (lol) was firmly out of my life, and he was forgotten, until one day he has an accident on a motorbike and died. Now THERE's way to remind you he exists.

 

[DoomyMcDoom]

well in one day I had an Suv leave a rubber skuff on the back of my shoe and took out it's rearview mirror knockin me onto the sidewalk, thing damn near hit me dead on(yes the light was in my favour yes the driver was in the wrong, I don't j-walk thankyouverymuch), same day I had some asshole pick a fight with me I was pissed from the earlier incident and accepted without thinking...(not smart of me, but I didn't need stitches or anything, wasn't much of a fight just scrapes bruises and such), later that evening someone stole my bike... so yeah that day got ruined several times all of a sudden... more recently I was layed off from my job because the drunk ass who ended up replacing me could work cheaper(he had other income in his household) and that ruined not only that day but hell my entire summer and so far all of september and part of october.

sorry for bein a downer but yeah life stories that suck often are.

 

[Sven und EIN HUND]

Well, as I'm young and haven't had as much time to experience life as the rest of you probably have had, I have less to say.

The only thing I can think of is when, after half a year of being absolutely infatuated with this one girl (this is about 2 years ago), she asked me out, which took me completely by surprise. We had been really close friends for a long time, but it still surprised me. The next day, she dumped me, saying she didn't want to drag me down with her (dick move). It isn't really that significant now that I look back at it, but I dunno, thought I'd contribute. There's been a few other times in relationships that have made me go WTF. Like when my girlfriend of 6 months dumped me saying she would always love me but that she thought we'd be better off friends. I didn't actually QUITE mind this because the relationship, while awesome for the most part, had been going downhill for a few weeks, and I did kind of want out. Then within the next week, she started dating this guy, saying she didn't love me anymore, (dick move) who had been at our school since the previous month, who is, subsequently, a douchebag (not just speaking from the fact she left me for him, no one really likes him). That made me go WTF. Then a few weeks after that, she dumped him, and that night we had a conversation in which she entailed the fact she was only using him to get over me, then I told her I didn't want her anymore and that I was in love with someone else (truedat), so she kind of went batshit insane(not quite just angry). A few weeks after that (not far in the past), she started hanging out with her ex who she had gone out with last year, who cheated on her (dick move) and used her for sex(dick move), and who got her drunk and impregnated her (DICK MOVE). Now they're dating (dick move) another wtf that has occurred to me.


I know this is a mammoth of a post, so tread lightly.

 

[AvsJoe]

I knew someone who suddenly started convulsing right at my feet. It came out of nowhere.

...But it didn't ruin my day; in fact it made it memorable. Thanks to knowing the Heimlich Maneuver (okay, I saw it on TV), I saved that person's life. WOO! I'm a bona fide hero!

Funny thing was, despite the person being (arguably) my best friend, I was just looking at him while he was involuntarily spazzing away and I was *laughing*. It was f-cking hilarious. Then the words "It's Heimlich time!" popped into my head and I saved him from choking on that stupid pill. I shouldn't have been laughing, I mean, this is how my dog died, but it was just funny. Good times.

 

[Gruthar]

Hmm, about a year ago, I got on the wrong end of a hit n' run on the way to class. Guy cut me off on the highway during the morning rush hour, then slammed on the brakes shortly thereafter. I wasn't able to slow down enough or avoid his truck. Well, his bumper was just above my front bumper, so while he just got a measly little dent on his rear bumper, my whole front header panel was shattered. We both got out, he went and looked at the damage, then said he would lead. So I start following him. At the first opening in traffic there was, the guy takes off. I was still pretty out of it from the collision, but even had I been 100% there was no way in hell I would be able to safely chase him down in rush hour traffic. Insurance covered most the damage, but I still had to put $1k down on the deductible for what turned out to be a lengthy and mediocre repair job.

Spoiler: Carnage, not too bad actually.

 

[WhiteFangofWhoa]

Haven't really had anything truly tragic happen unexpectedly, save for a cousin's sudden diagnosis with terminal cancer.

In terms of things happening when we least expected it however, about a year ago an outdoor glass table we used to have on our back deck (that is, the large glass panel in the frame) exploded for no reason. None. No sign of impact or anything. We considered ourselves lucky no one was near it when it went boom.

On a more personal level, I guess I couldn't expect to get whacked in the head with a golf club and put in the hospital for 6 stitches. An accident, but one that was certainly influenced by how angry my brother was getting at the time. Golf is more dangerously frusturating than it appears...

 

[GHMonkey]

just got my wind shield repaired. 10 minutes after leaving the shop i drive by a driving range and a golf ball its my wind shield. FML. i literally said "SERIOUSLY?".

 

[Timotei]

I was in kindergarten or so. It was during recess and there was this one kid named Yiddi Goldberg who loved to climb and jump off of things.

One day some men were doing construction on the roof, had gone off for break, but had forgotten to put away a ladder. Yiddi sees this ladder which led up onto the two story high roof and climbed up it. Sadly nobody noticed this because the teacher was too busy breaking up a fight.
He gets on the roof and then decides to yell out to everyone that he was going to jump down. The teachers had no time to respond and before we knew it Yiddi had jumped off and plummeted two stories onto the freshly paved asphalt. IT was quite something for children to see.

The parents and the school ended up suing the workers for blatant incompetence or something like that.

It was quite sad. Yiddi was one of the only children who was actually nice to me.

 

[RavingLibDem]

Hmm, my first girlfriend dumped me after 7 1/2 months saying that she didn't fancy me, and never had ¬,¬

Given that in this time I had started uni, and turned down 3 girls because of her I was pretty pissed off that she had randomly kept this from me!

 

[badgersprite]

I'm cursed, so I've had a few experiences.

I'd like to focus on this sentence in particular as I think the best story will originate from how, why and exactly what 'cursed' you.

Well, I was born dead. That kind of started it. XD Seriously, I was ten days overdue so I suffocated at birth and had to be revived. I have no clue how I survived, actually. Just luck, I guess.

I'm accident prone as hell. I broke my arm when I slipped on a dumbell my cousin left lying around. I tore my knee open in the Stockholm zoo when I tripped and got sliced open by the rocks on the path. When my mountain bike fell over sideways, the kickstand snapped in half and shot straight through my leg.

On the non-physical side, my first girlfriend broke it to me that she was pregnant with the child of her gay ex-boyfriend. I was fifteen. oO I think I handled that pretty well. We're still friends.

 

[dweomermaster]

ummm well this week was a big shock (nd not neccessarily bad (well not now) I discovered I'm expecting a baby and it was a shit discovery til the dad knew and our respective families were told. now its awesome lol

 

[Tiut]

Terrible Stuff When You Least Expect It

Welcome to the internet. Our specials today are Pain Series and Goatse. Do you have any interest in kittens? There so happens to be an Encyclopedia Dramatica article on them. You should check it out.

 

[Aesir23]

Hmm. I don't get out a lot so not much as happened to me. But one year, I was 16 I think, I went out biking to the local EB Games store. Anyway, some idiot came around a blind corner and hit me. Thankfully he wasn't going too fast and I was wearing a helmet or else I have no doubt the concrete would've cracked my skull open when I hit the ground. Did a number on my bike though.