Pulled over on the side of the highway when my car failed me (old 325CI). It was night time and drizzling. Told my GF at the time to get out of the car. She was confused and upset about it. Literally 2 min after she gets out a drunk driver plows into the back of my car. No airbags deployed and we wouldn’t have had our seatbelts on. The firemen who came were so surprised that we had gotten out and stood behind the barrier. Someone was watching over us that night.

Went to my gf's dorm after a date. Were snogging on the front porch of the dorm and I jokingly asked if I could drive her car back over to my dorm across campus because it was so late. Was about 3 in the morning at that time. I knew she'd say no which was fine because it was mostly a joke. I picked up a can of metal cleaner the staff had left next to the door and said I'd use it for self-defense if anyone tried anything. Gave her a quick kiss, put the cleaner back down and got about 100 feet away which I heard my name. Confused I stopped, turned around and she was running towards me with her keys. Told her I was joking and that'd I'd be fine. Turns out someone had just had their throat slit about 20 feet from my dorm window. The police were still on scene when I pulled into the parking lot. They ended up finding the guy hiding in the bushes next to our humanities building, a building, and bushes, I would have walked by about 2-3 minutes later, if my gf hadn't come running back out to give me her keys.

My anorexia was so severe that the doctors didn’t think I would make it. Hospitalized for over a year, and now 9 years later, I’m the healthiest I’ve ever been and am currently in Grad school to be a therapist that specializes in eating disorders. Pay it forward.

Driving to my girlfriend's parents place in Montana for Thanksgiving...

Crossing a mountain pass in my 1984 Toyota Tercel, it was a beautiful, sunny winter day, but coming around a bend I hit an ice patch and immediately started sliding off the road. It was next to a cliff, with no guardrail, and it was a slow-motion freak out. The car came to a stop just before going over. My girlfriend didn't even have room to get out on her side.

We slowly and carefully slid out my side and both got out safely, but then our previous freakout turned quickly into some real concern about what the hell we were going to do next, and how we were going to get out of there in the middle of nowhere. And, it was cold.

Not two minutes later a pickup truck with two guys in the cab and three in the bed came around the bend toward us. They pulled over in front of my car, and they all hopped out like a pit crew. One guy with a tow strap hooked it under the front axle, hooked it on the back of the truck and they pulled my car off the cliff and back onto the the shoulder of the highway.

I thanked them PROFUSELY, and asked them what in the hell they were doing out in the middle of nowhere like this. One guy said that "there wasn't much to do around here" and helping people on the highway was kind of a fun activity.

The entire event took a total of about ten minutes.

Australia is wider than the moon. 🌙.

Wooly mammoths were still around when the pyramids were built.

The last civil war pension was paid in December of 2020.

Helen Viola Jackson, lived until December 16, 2020, to the age of 101. At 17, she married 93-year-old Union veteran James Bolin in 1936 during the Great Depression. Their marriage was arranged so she could receive his pension, a fact she kept secret for most of her life.

I used my kid’s bathroom because my wife was in ours. The toilet paper was on the roll backwards. I asked them which kid did it, they responded it didn’t really matter which way it’s on the roll. I recoiled in horror.