Times You Dodged a Bullet

[Saulkar]

Right now I am slowly coming off of a panic attack. I made a big sale on Ebay yet somehow when payment was made it was sent to the email address I registered my Ebay account on and not Paypal. I was freaking out trying to find a solution. I was pouring over my settings and could not figure out what went wrong, every attempt to double check any settings would redirect me to my Paypal account where everything checked out. In a hurry I created a brand new one with my Ebay email address. I sat there for 15 minutes freaking out, going back and forth between accounts, trying to figure out what went wrong then bing! The funds appeared in my brand new account.


HOLY FUCKING SHIT!

That was the fastest I had ever come down from a panic attack and I mean the real thing when I say that. The kind that physically and mentally incapacitates you. But yes, I am trying to find a solution to the problem while failing to get myself to stop shaking. This thread is more or less one of the things I am try to do to help it.

So what about you, when did you dodge the proverbial bullet?

EDIT: I am not entirely sure but it seems that Ebay uses the same email address for everything unless there is a setting I missed during the listing process. I have made one either sale back in 2009 that sent it to the right Paypal address so that is what has me stumped.

 

[Marter]

I went to a movie. Upon leaving I couldn't find my car keys. I looked in and around the seat, but they weren't there. When I got back to the car, they were sitting there, on the passenger seat. The car wasn't locked. I'm really lucky nobody stole it.

 

[Saulkar]

I went to a movie. Upon leaving I couldn't find my car keys. I looked in and around the seat, but they weren't there. When I got back to the car, they were sitting there, on the passenger seat. The car wasn't locked. I'm really lucky nobody stole it.

Oh jeeze, how long did it take to find them? I have done something similar once before and there was maybe a two minute span of me noticing they were missing in the gym and running out to find they had slid on top of a lay of slush under the car with the bright blue neck-band still clearly visible across the street.

 

[Marter]

Oh jeeze, how long did it take to find them? I have done something similar once before and there was maybe a two minute span of me noticing they were missing in the gym and running out to find they had slid on top of a lay of slush under the car with the bright blue neck-band still clearly visible across the street.

I spent like five minutes in the theater looking for them - it has recliner seats so I was looking inside the seat - before realizing they were probably in the car and getting ready to call a taxi because I was under the impression the car would auto-lock.

It did not. That ultimately saved me time and money - I was going to head home and get the spare set, then head back - but it made it even scarier upon discovery.

 

[Cap'nPipsqueak]

I've never been shot at before.

What an odd topic.

 

[Neurotic Void Melody]

Hmm, been subject to a lot of crazy situations, am sure some are probably not the kind of thing for delving into for this. I was going to write, but not knowimg where to start and when to stop has kind of brought on a realisation, retrospection, introspection, reevaluation with muddled memories of madness from a hundred fading lives. Or so it seems. To stick with the eponymous metaphor, not sure how many were dodged or leap right into with blind glee. Not sure if any other pulled those triggers or if it all was just me. Not really the most stable, balanced example of a lifestyle. Tolls have certainly been taken. Eh, don't know, it's later than expected, already should not be thinking.

 

[Saltyk]

Well, one time I was driving down a back road and came to a stop sign. The road that it crossed did not have a stop sign. After making sure no one was coming I started to go. Then, for no reason I just stopped. About that moment, a car zipped by. No idea why I stopped, but it prevented a really bad car accident. I can only assume I missed the car as it was obstructed by my car's frame.

Today, that road is a four way stop.

 

[Saelune]

I went scuba-diving with my family. Well, I went on the boat they dove from. I was on medication that effected my heart at the time, and I was worried it might be an issue. Instead of letting me discuss with the guy about it, my mom said to just say I didnt. Thanks for not caring if my heart explodes mom...

I ended up not diving and just sat on the boat as everyone else did. My dad came up like, super fast saying he hated it. My mom came up covered in mucus, and my brother came up covered in blood.

I dont know if that bullet was fatal or just unpleasant, but I dodged something.

Edit: And panic attacks suck. I only ever had one, but it was because I was so sick I literally (yes literally) thought I was going to die, which caused the attack, which only confirmed my feelings I was going to die.

 

[Scarim Coral]

Let see-

When I was a kid, I was stupid enough to dive into the deep end despite I can't swim (don't ask me why, it was a long time ago). Obvious I couldn't swim so I was lucky enough to grab onto the ledge to get myself into safety. I am pretty certain in a parrelel Earth, another me died from drowning or maybe the lifeguard was able to saved me in time.

One time I crossed the roundabout and the car still drive by. Granted no, he or she wouldn't had run me over but if I had been abit slower, the mirror would had hit my upper arm and would had leave a nasty mark on my arm.

 

[Queen Michael]

I was at a nerd convention that was held at a museum. I used the museum's coin lockers to store a lot of really important stuff. When I was walking to the school gymnasium where we were supposed to sleep, I noticed that the coin locker key was missing from my pocket. I felt all cold inside, and started walking back to the museum while watching the ground carefully. After roughly 100 meters of walking, I found it again. Scariest seconds of my life.

 

[lechat]

I went to a movie. Upon leaving I couldn't find my car keys. I looked in and around the seat, but they weren't there. When I got back to the car, they were sitting there, on the passenger seat. The car wasn't locked. I'm really lucky nobody stole it.

when I bought my first car I spent all day out with friends while my car was parked out the front of his house in a bad neighborhood. at the end of the day when we returned to the car I noticed I didn't have my keys only to find them sitting right in front of the driver's door where I had dropped them.

 

[Gordon_4_v1legacy]

I went scuba-diving with my family. Well, I went on the boat they dove from. I was on medication that effected my heart at the time, and I was worried it might be an issue. Instead of letting me discuss with the guy about it, my mom said to just say I didnt. Thanks for not caring if my heart explodes mom...

I ended up not diving and just sat on the boat as everyone else did. My dad came up like, super fast saying he hated it. My mom came up covered in mucus, and my brother came up covered in blood.

That sounds more like you dodged a fucking cruise missile. Blood and mucus? Jesus Christ I'm afraid to ask.

 

[Saelune]

I went scuba-diving with my family. Well, I went on the boat they dove from. I was on medication that effected my heart at the time, and I was worried it might be an issue. Instead of letting me discuss with the guy about it, my mom said to just say I didnt. Thanks for not caring if my heart explodes mom...

I ended up not diving and just sat on the boat as everyone else did. My dad came up like, super fast saying he hated it. My mom came up covered in mucus, and my brother came up covered in blood.

That sounds more like you dodged a fucking cruise missile. Blood and mucus? Jesus Christ I'm afraid to ask.

Scuba-Diving isnt exactly gentle what with the water/air pressure and all that. Both came from their noses, not like, a shark attack.

 

[Saulkar]

I went scuba-diving with my family. Well, I went on the boat they dove from. I was on medication that effected my heart at the time, and I was worried it might be an issue. Instead of letting me discuss with the guy about it, my mom said to just say I didnt. Thanks for not caring if my heart explodes mom...

I ended up not diving and just sat on the boat as everyone else did. My dad came up like, super fast saying he hated it. My mom came up covered in mucus, and my brother came up covered in blood.

That sounds more like you dodged a fucking cruise missile. Blood and mucus? Jesus Christ I'm afraid to ask.

Scuba-Diving isnt exactly gentle what with the water/air pressure and all that. Both came from their noses, not like, a shark attack.

Weird. I got my (long expired) scuba diving license nearly a decade ago and no one in our group of 15-62 year olds ever exhibited any such symptoms. Maybe it is a hereditary sensitivity to pressure changes in your family?

P.S. I did some more scuba diving about 4 years ago during a gym period field trip and ended up lazily swimming in a perfect circle for nearly a whole hour on a tank that should have lasted only about 30 minutes because I was breathing so slow. It is a rather common thing for me to be completely forgotten in a room because I can remain motionless and make no sound from breathing when zoned out that I often scare people when suddenly speaking up. I just timed myself and I take about 23 seconds to do a complete inhale and exhale cycle...

What the hell were we talking about again?! I lost track of the plot!

 

[Saelune]

I went scuba-diving with my family. Well, I went on the boat they dove from. I was on medication that effected my heart at the time, and I was worried it might be an issue. Instead of letting me discuss with the guy about it, my mom said to just say I didnt. Thanks for not caring if my heart explodes mom...

I ended up not diving and just sat on the boat as everyone else did. My dad came up like, super fast saying he hated it. My mom came up covered in mucus, and my brother came up covered in blood.

That sounds more like you dodged a fucking cruise missile. Blood and mucus? Jesus Christ I'm afraid to ask.

Scuba-Diving isnt exactly gentle what with the water/air pressure and all that. Both came from their noses, not like, a shark attack.

Weird. I got my (long expired) scuba diving license nearly a decade ago and no one in our group of 15-62 year olds ever exhibited any such symptoms. Maybe it is a hereditary sensitivity to pressure changes in your family?

P.S. I did some more scuba diving about 4 years ago during a gym period field trip and ended up lazily swimming in a perfect circle for nearly a whole hour on a tank that should have lasted only about 30 minutes because I was breathing so slow. It is a rather common thing for me to be completely forgotten in a room because I can remain motionless and make no sound from breathing when zoned out that I often scare people when suddenly speaking up. I just timed myself and I take about 23 seconds to do a complete inhale and exhale cycle...

What the hell were we talking about again?! I lost track of the plot!

Maybe the guide guy was bad at his job, or they went too deep too fast, I dunno. As I said, I just sat on the boat.

 

[Shoggoth2588]

I went to MAGfest back in...I wanna say 2013 and of course, I wound up spending nearly $200 on games that I hadn't seen around anywhere. I got things like a complete copy of Mother, a complete copy of Sweet Home, a complete Famicom etc...just a lot of really cool games and whatnot. I and the people I was with were out of our room for a panel but when we got back we found that someone had been in our room. It was subtle but what gave away that somebody had been in there was the urine they'd left in the bathtub. Nothing was stolen somehow but it was still a really weird and worrying experience.

 

[Saulkar]

I went to MAGfest back in...I wanna say 2013 and of course, I wound up spending nearly $200 on games that I hadn't seen around anywhere. I got things like a complete copy of Mother, a complete copy of Sweet Home, a complete Famicom etc...just a lot of really cool games and whatnot. I and the people I was with were out of our room for a panel but when we got back we found that someone had been in our room. It was subtle but what gave away that somebody had been in there was the urine they'd left in the bathtub. Nothing was stolen somehow but it was still a really weird and worrying experience.

That... what... huh? I do not know what to say. Did anyone lose a key so that someone could have entered?

 

[Fox12]

I drove in front of a speeding train once. Unfortunately I made it/

 

[Bob_McMillan]

Lost my passport in Rome.

Spent an hour long ride to the embassy sweating and praying (because what else could I do?). I left my group behind, my trip was only a quarter finished, and I had already paid for everything.

5 minutes before the embassy, I laid my hands down on my lap. Then I noticed something was... rigid.

Yup. My passport had been with me the whole fucking time. I had just forgotten that I had placed it in a fanny pack that I wore under my pants.

I spent a shit ton of money for another flight and endured constant teasing during the trip (and after), but man was I glad to just be there. Lesson learned, always keep your passport in ONE place.

 

[The Almighty Aardvark]

I've had some close calls while climbing, this this one actually terrified me when I realized what happened.

Some relevant background information, the waist loop for my climbing harness has a thick strap that is fed through a buckle, and an elastic band attached to velcro that goes underneath. I'm not completely sure what the velcro elastic band is for, but I'm pretty sure it's something like keeping the harness around your waist while you fasten the buckle which is designed to take your weight. You may see where this is going.

I got myself set up, and went off to do an climb. This wasn't an easy climb, but it wasn't a hard one either. Something where I probably won't fall, but I need to try. I get to the top of the climb without falling, and then get lowered down. As I'm undoing my knot I notice something. My buckle wasn't done up at all. It was hanging completely off to the side. The only thing holding the waist loop together was that velcro strap. Frankly, I'm shocked that it didn't come undone from getting lowered.

I'm not sure if I had fallen, if I would have come out of my harness, there's a decent chance that I'd just flip upside down and get caught by my legs as they buckle and flail, but there's an equally good chance I would have flipped upside down and fallen headfirst to the ground. I may have been safer without the harness whatsoever.