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#1
3 years ago; lost my wallet, with my ID in it, only to have one of Sweden's most recognized actors knock on my door the next day with it (one of the Skarsgård's). Most stupid moment? No selfie! Kicked myself.
Final score:
58points
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#2
Finding the greatest guy in the world for me. We've been married 40 years & it still seems like yesterday when we went on our first date. I'm still surprised sometimes that he loves me, but he does. And I love him, too.
Final score:
27points
#3
Survived a head-on collision with a large run-away lorry and only got a few cuts, bruises and a broken arm! As it hit my car I genuinely thought 'I'm dead'. 😕
Final score:
26points
Kari Panda 3 years ago
I‘ve been in a similar situation - it‘s such a surreal feeling. I hope you are doing well.
#4
3 years ago I fell out of a tree. A branch snapped, but nog through, so I got on a ladder, and used a saw to get te branch down. Down it went, and 3 seconds later, so did I. Unbeknownst to be, I got a whiplash. After a few weeks, I got a splitting headache, and eventually ended up in hospital, because nothing the doc did worked. To rule out anything bad, they made a scan, and that's when I found out I had a braintumor. So if I didn't fall out of the tree, I probably would have found out when it was too late, and I'd be flopping around like a fish. Last year it was removed, and eventually it'll come back, but every scan I take, my brain seems to be looking better and better. So everytime the results get back from a scan, I'm as happy as can be.
Final score:
25points
#5
On our very first cruise (ever) after we were married we were checking in at the desk for our room assignments. The clerk looked at our paperwork and said "I don't see you in this room." I almost had a meltdown. We had saved up for an economy room with a window and I assumed we weren't even on the ship!
She calmed me down and gave us our key cards to the room that we were assigned instead of the one that we had booked.
We opened the door to a demi-suite with a balcony that included an invitation to the Captain's Table for dinner!
Apparently, a group wanted their rooms together on the same deck. We were assigned one of their member's rooms and they were assigned our room instead.
We were not charged the price difference, which was significant, and we had the time of our lives!
it was our perfect honeymoon almost 18 months after we were married.
Final score:
25points
#6
At a supermarket on my way home from work one evening, I had my left arm through my motorcycle helmet and a shopping basket in my left hand.
I picked up a bottle of rum from a head height shelf with my other hand, but as I lifted it the security tag got caught on another bottle's tag and pulled it from the shelf.
As it fell I managed to catch it, upright, on the tip of my boot and lower it to the floor.
An employee witnessed this and exclaimed "Oh, man! You should go buy a scratch card!"
I took his advice, I bought a lottery scratch card for £2. It won me £4. Only scratch card I've ever bought.
My run of luck then ran out - my bike ran out of petrol on the way home from the store.
Final score:
24points
#7
A couple weeks after I'd finished college and resigned from my job to begin looking for work in my new career, the company I most wanted to work for posted an ad for the exact job I wanted. And, I got that new job and stayed with that company for 25 years!
Final score:
24points
Samantha Lomb 3 years ago
That is lucky. Plenty of people struggle finding A job out of college let alone their dream job
#9
Getting into the uni I wanted without having to take the paid exam.
Final score:
19points
#10
I woke up at midnight almost 8 years ago. Had a cold, felt tired, went to sleep early with earplugs, yet I still woke up because something was off. Found my mum collapsed. Massive double pulmonary embolism, where her heart stopped for a minute when the EMTs arrived. She is coming home from her Hungary vacation (where she went with her amazing boyfriend). I hope she brings me a magnet. I love my mum. She is the best parent I could have ever wished for, and it has always been just the two of us. Hug your parents.
Final score:
17points
#11
4 years ago I was rearended in traffic jam and me and my motorcycle were thrown into oncoming traffic - which moves as fast it cans (here you are considered to be an idiot if you drive by the speed limits)- the opposite direction usually is free in the evening. I woke up in the intensive care - no memories from the accident at the time... It was late in the night but a there was constant stream of very concerned doctors poking my legs and asking if I feel anything. “Yes I do” was my answer every time but it seemed they have really hard time believing it. It turned out - my left lung crashed, severe concussion, collarbone broken... and my back was broken in 8 places, they had to do really hard and intensive surgery to fix it somehow, I was operated by the best doctors in my country without paying anything extra (which is miracle by itself in Eastern Europe) - after month and half I made my first steps, three months after I had my third daughter, 6 months later back playing the bass on stage, and year later I was back on two wheels (please do not tell my doctor - she sweared if she learns that I am riding motorcycle again she will kill me - extra slow and painfully)...
I don’t know if it that was luck, or my believe that one never should throw a leg over a motorcycle without putting every piece of safety gear he can find in his garage, or just God smiled over me that day... but I am really thankful!
Final score:
16points
#12
I promise this story is 100% true. In high school in the 90s, back when coke bottles had lids with prizes under them, and the most common was "free drink". Three friends and I stopped at a gas station because one of my friends had a "free drink" lid. They go in to the store and get a plastic bottle of coke. Lo and behold they won another free drink with that lid! So they give the lid to another friend who gets their free drink and THAT one had a lid with a free drink. This happened 2 more times so all 4 of us got a free drink from one free drink lid.
Final score:
16points
#13
One summer night, I fell asleep early, but couldn't stay down. So, I was talking with my roommate at 2 AM, and heard a pedestrian. Roomie suggested that I talk to him, something we had never tried before. It turned out that he was looking for my address but had it written down wrong. He was scouting Canada for several Vietnam draft-dodgers, and needed a couch. It also turned out that we had been pen-pals 7 years earlier.
Final score:
13points
Samantha Lomb 3 years ago
I'm not sure I could be nice to someone rounding up kids for a stupid imperialist war
#14
My parents were very caring when I came out to them as gender-fluid and changed my name to Kai…well at first it was “K” because I hadn’t decided when my sister came out for me..my teachers have been supportive and so has everyone else..except Granddad but you know,I ignore him when he calls me by my deadname.that taught him
Final score:
12points
Samantha Lomb 3 years ago
Yeah I don't get why it is hard to call someone by a preferred name. No one has trouble shortening Andrea to Andi for example if that is preferred. I even went to school with a kid we all called Justin cause his first name was Michael and his last Myers and he didn't like the Friday the 13th connection.
#15
When I was younger, my mum, sister and I were all going a very expensive ropes course in Montreal. As we approach the gate, a random couple we don't know at all comes up to us and says they won a family pass to this ropes course - and asked us if we wanted to use it as well! We got into it free, no charges or catches at all! Super lucky
Final score:
11points
#16
Well… once in a a unnamed place a live shooting broke out, and I have the worst luck of all, so I got caught in it. I have a strong fight or flight sense, so no meaning to be smug but I grabbed a women whom was wailing for help and her baby and ran. I got 2 gunshots in my back, luckily a bad shot (went right through flesh, not touching internal organs or main blood veins) I made a full recovery and ended up marrying the beautiful woman, though she is sadly no longer with us. All the people involved were untouched but me, someone called the police and the armed shooter was arrested. I hope no one will get caught in an accident like so…
Love you all!
- nobody
Final score:
11points
#17
I was on holiday in Northern Ireland with my girlfriend. Walking through the streets of Belfast, I noticed that there was paper money scattered in the road. Without saying anything, we went over and picked it all up. There was no-one around except for one person who walked by us, but they must have thought we'd dropped it. We took it back to the car and as it was Northern Irish notes, we didn't know if they were real. It came to £120. We had to try it and went to buy lunch using it and the waiter didn't bat an eyelid, so we used the rest to pay for a hotel room and dinner and drinks for that night.
Final score:
9points
MrOwlAteMyMetalWorm. 3 years ago
I would never do that not because of moral judgements but because am too paranoid and well,life.
#18
When my role model once told me that I am his role model.
Final score:
9points
#19
My first car at 16 was a 1968 VW Fastback that was a gutless wonder. I called it Flattery as it didn't get me anywhere. It had a habit of dying when I had to come to a stop. I had pulled slightly into an intersection to make a left turn. Traffic cleared, and I pushed on the gas. The car rolled about two or three more feet and died, stranding me at a complete stop blocking both lanes of oncoming vehicles.
At that same moment, a truck in a parking lot decided to try and make the light. He had to be doing 50 mph when he exited the lot just feet from the intersection and me. It was too late, and he couldn't slam on his brakes in time, and I was blocking both lanes, so nowhere to swerve around me. I was screaming, frantically trying to start the stupid car, and I was sure I was going to die.
In a split second, a miracle happened. My car was still not running but was inexplicably and completely out of the intersection without rolling. I was blocking oncoming traffic, and then I wasn't. The truck flew past behind me, and he never even slowed down.
Shaking, I breathed a prayer of thanks to God, started my car, and drove home. I would love to know what the truck driver saw. Did my car blink out and back in as it was moved? Did it appear to jump? It did NOT roll forward, there was no time, only a second or two before I would have been broadsided, and the engine was NOT running.
Thankfully my father got me a different car soon after that.
Final score:
9points
#20
i dropped an ice block once and it landed on my foot instead of the ground and i was happy bc i didnt want it to go to waste but im a very unlucky guy otherwise
Final score:
8points
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Jennifer .S 3 years ago
Dropped my toast once and it landed on its edge, saved both sides. The Gods were on my side that day.
GenericPanda09 3 years ago (edited)
Not me personally but a former colleague of mine once wanted to get rid of his wife ( not in the hitman sense) and he was building up the petty arguments etc. to the point where he could just blurt out 'let's split up' and before he got round to it she asked him for a divorce.... and because she thought he was totally still in love with her she was willing to kinda 'buy him out' rather than have him contest it..... turns out she'd pretty much slept her way up to the boss in her job of recycling old ship props, made some smart investments (some of which she'd advised him to buy into too, so he'd already made some money as well), and was worth a pretty penny....... her solicitor gave him an offer in the high 6 figure region to accept and walk away, and the next week he got 5 numbers up on the national lottery which was another 300k or so...... then the military decided he had too much money so gave him the options of either promotion or retirement. landed right on his feet
Jennifer .S 3 years ago
Dropped my toast once and it landed on its edge, saved both sides. The Gods were on my side that day.
GenericPanda09 3 years ago (edited)
Not me personally but a former colleague of mine once wanted to get rid of his wife ( not in the hitman sense) and he was building up the petty arguments etc. to the point where he could just blurt out 'let's split up' and before he got round to it she asked him for a divorce.... and because she thought he was totally still in love with her she was willing to kinda 'buy him out' rather than have him contest it..... turns out she'd pretty much slept her way up to the boss in her job of recycling old ship props, made some smart investments (some of which she'd advised him to buy into too, so he'd already made some money as well), and was worth a pretty penny....... her solicitor gave him an offer in the high 6 figure region to accept and walk away, and the next week he got 5 numbers up on the national lottery which was another 300k or so...... then the military decided he had too much money so gave him the options of either promotion or retirement. landed right on his feet
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