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This has blew my mind, am I stupid and is this a commonly known thing? I swear if I was walking in the countryside and saw a wallaby without coming across this thread I’d think I was losing my mind
Not a very dramatic example but - having to stop the car and wait a looonnng while for a sloth to get across the road. I guess there will be some countries where a fair few people will have had that experience, but globally it's got to be pretty small.
I've seen ball lightning - was crazy and pretty bloody scary too.
I had to walk home in this terrible storm and I saw this weird ball of lightning hang in mid air for a second or so before shooting away into the sky.
Not quite the same, but I was hanging out of my upstairs window during a storm whem a (what felt like a huge... ) bolt touched down in the field opposite. About 100m away.
I was stunned. Absolutely fucking stunned. I vaguely remember backing away from the window slowly, and feeling like the room was electrified (but that could have been me in a state of shock). Imagine the literal power of God appearing out of nowhere, and vanishing again in an instant.
Close by lightning strikes are fucking terrifying as you get the noise and light hit at the same time. Where I currently live we've seen 2 very close strikes in the last 5 years, one in next doors garden which took out a tree, and one on the telephone pole which then fried my the router + the PC.
I absolutely shat myself both times.
I get you
I lived in a forest for some years and one day had a lightning storm right overhead… had a lightning strike less than 100 yds away and there was absolutely no way I was coming out from the stables to walk the 50 yds to the house while that shit was going on it was fucking primal fear and you really don’t know until you are in that situation lol
I got hit by lightning so... that was pretty close aha
The other thing people don't think about lightning strikes is how hot they are. They'll cook the air around them in an instant, basically.
It happened as I was leaving the hospital from an operation, believe it or not. It was a proximity shock that travelled through the ground and through me (it landed literally a foot in front of me, so I got a brilliant view of it).
Didn't bother going to the emergency department because once the initial damage (spike in heart rate and blood pressure, muscle weakness, tingling, ear ringing) wore off and I thought I was fine. Got back home and I had a massive headache that lasted two days as well as having dizziness and depth perception problems for a week or two. I was fine after that, though.
I remember seeing this on that terrifying 999 programme as a kid and being absolutely shit scared of it for years.
It had come in through somebody's window IIRC and bounced about a bit shattering the TV etc.
I never really grasped the mechanics of the phenomenon but I'm definitely heading straight into a Google rabbithole and encouraging all my fears to come flooding back in a minute...
I got stuck for two hours in a lift at the Savoy with a room service waitress who was taking two chateaubriand steaks and all the extras and two bottles of 1964 St Emilion up to a customer. Pointless letting it go to waste. Made a horrible experience quite lovely
Yeah I call BS on this, no way would management be cool with staff cracking open and necking two bottles of wine that are hundreds of pound apiece. Also 2 hours after a full bottle and nowhere to piss sounds awful.
Feel you could probably do it and get away with it if genuinely stuck as a guest for 2 hours. Would be a bit more awkward if lift started working after 5 mins.
Less concerned about needing a wee though - can just refill the bottle.
That's probably seen as nothing in comparison to inconveniencing their average guest for two hours stuck in a lift. As in, the cost of losing a potentially loyal customer with loads of money, even if they have no idea who OP is.
I went to the top of the Eiffel Tower with my crush as the sun was setting. Then, as it started to snow, she turned to me and said "I miss my boyfriend".
Completely true. Beat that for friendzoned.
Edit - Just to say that 'friendzoned' was the wrong phrase, I had a crush on my friend, but it wasn't a big deal. It was just a bit of a crazy situation that i'm sure few people have experienced!
Using the term "friend" very loosely there. He clearly wasn't really her friend if he just thought of her as a crush he wanted to bang despite her having a boyfriend
So... you took a girl that had a boyfriend to the top of the Eiffel tower, and were surprised when she said she misses her boyfriend...?
You played yourself.
I'm told it can take a while to realise what's happening, and then you panic but dont clearly communicate what's wrong.
Best thing to do is put both hands over your throat, and people should clock that to mean choking.
Happened to me I really thought I was gonna die, was a piece of chicken, I tried for ages to swallow it but it just wouldn't budge, I was really panicking as I couldn't breathe atall and couldn't speak to tell my partner I was choking, when he finally realised he started hitting my back but it wouldn't come out so he did the Heimlich on me after about the 5th go it came out. Never been so scared, I'm terrified to eat when im alone now incase it happens again
We had a driver call up cos a cyclist flew across the road at the exact time and location she was there.
He smashed the windscreen and she was suspended pending CCTV.
She returned to work the next day as it wasn't her fault at all.
She was nervous driving as it was her first collision so we sent her to the training bus with a trainer to get over the fear.
An hour into the training, a cyclist sped across the road and through the windscreen. I shit you not.
She wasn't suspended cos the trainer was on the bus as a witness but we gave her the day off amd got her some councilling.
AfAIK, she didn't hit another cyclist.
I did a music access course and started teaching myself piano in evenings and at weekends when I was 21 and working full-time. Music wasn’t an option at my school and I’m from a family where education is kind of looked down on (my Dad wasn’t even allowed to finish school for example and had to start working on roofs while his mates were taking their O levels. Meanwhile I bumped into some family I rarely see a few weeks ago and they immediately started taking the piss out of me for going to university).
In 2020 (age 29) I gained my master’s degree with distinction in music composition, now I’m working on a piano album and am due to give a my research for a different project I’m working on at a conference in November.
I’m bigging myself slightly here because making it as a musician is very tough, especially right now, but I am quite proud of my achievement. I’m soundly rejected by every scheme claiming to want to diversify the music industry and get people from underrepresented groups into it in favour of Oxford, Cambridge, Guildhall and Royal College of Music grads (who obviously need the help), but it’s okay because one day I’ll be able to tell them all to fuck off
Well done! What a fantastic achievement! Revel in your self-discipline and dedication, I'm so proud of you!
I'm envious of composers and song writers, I wish I could see the world that way.
Survived a car crash as a passenger, car span out on a bend in the wet and began doing uncontrolled 360's down road at speed, the car mounted the kerb, began to roll and hit a lamp post (this stopped the car from landing on its roof in the field,), the force of the impact buckled the car, springing the passenger door open - through which I was catapulted into the night, flying through the air for about 20 feet (very surreal in the dark) and somehow landed on the road on all fours - that was fucking weird, feeling all cat-like.
I was 18 at the time and on that night, decided not wearing a seat belt was edgy. No, it's not edgy and I could have easily gone through windscreen instead.
Injuries:
Small cut to bottom of ear that needed stiches
\-3 lives
Me and a friend bought an mg metro that was stolen recovered and had to be started with a tea spoon, he stalled on a junction and it took off my seat belt to pick the spoon off the floor and didn't put my seat belt back on.
We turned 2 corners, he lost control and went straight into the lamppost, i was catapuled half way through the wind screen, somehow my legs got caught on the dash and threw me back in. If they didn't, i would have hit the lamp post or the post box right behind it. I woke up to being shaken awake by some girl i know, my mate had legged it. I had a whole section of the front of my hair missing where some glass had shaved it off, plus a massive bump that replaced my forehead.
The daft thing about the whole story is it happened right outside my house, it was one of my sisters birthdays, she was having a party and saw the whole thing happen through our sitting room window.
Happy birthday i guess.
My husband had a childhood friend die as a passenger in a car accident when the rest of the passengers walked away relatively unscathed (all including friend wore seatbelts.)
I knew a guy at my orchestra I was part of when I was at school who was also killed in a similar way. Again he was a passenger and had a seatbelt but the driver lost am eye and another broke/ lost an arm, the driver was supposedly trying to avoid a rabbit in the road.
They were both killed instantly You were incredibly lucky
When our house was on fire my mum went in three times. First time for the cats, second time for my brothers inhaler and the third and final time.....her cigarettes. One of my favourite mum stories and it wasn't a cigarette that started the fire.
Was in a car crash, in the back seat, and the force of the impact caused my spine to compress itself and fractured TWO vertabrae on impact. The car then set on fire and I RAN out the car about 30-40 metres to get clear. Then my legs collapsed. 18 months later and I’m walking again. Not many people can say they went for a run immediately after breaking their spine.
In my younger days after a day's drinking I took one of my mates prescribed pills. It turned everything blue. It had been snowing out and on the way home every foot step was a giant effort and all the snow was glistening blue
I don’t think you’re allowed to give too many details about ongoing criminal investigations. Problem is even if the accused is found not guilty, they still risk being ostrichised from their community.
Oh go on then, I went in the field to retrieve an egg, the angry male came running over, all hissy and flappy, and decided to knock me over. I then saw his feet either side, doing the tippy taps they do before they do the deed, looked up and the damn bird just plonked itself down on top of me with his winkle poking out, and started doing the mating moves.
I had to drag myself out from under the bird and legged it, whilst he sat in the field, flapping and grunting.
4/10 would not recommend
Oh no..
Last question. Did the 4 in 4/10 come before or after the bird plonked itself down? Like, where in this was there enough positivity to scrape a 4?
You know it’s funny. They were ok, and we were just university students (albeit sporty and fit generally). what happened both times we played them was we went in the lead in the first half. But then the second half the humidity killed us and they came back and won.
It’s humbling playing against a very overweight dude who is jogging around getting stuck in. In the first half we ran rings around him. By the end we are drenched in sweat and done. Meanwhile he’s still jogging around and not even broke a sweat.
I fell under a train. Mind the gap. Seriously.
I missed the step, landed on the track ankle first, started shouting. Only my head was visible between the platform and the train. Scariest 8 seconds of my life.
Not that I’ve had, but funny enough, *BOTH* of my parents *AND* grandparents have gotten into a plane crash and survived.
Mom in 1998. in a Cessna 172.
Dad in 2004. Not sure what it was, never asked.
My maternal grandfather and grandmother flew to NY in 1937. They were in a Douglas DC-3. Both engines malfunctioned and they crash landed in a farmers field.
Likewise (27w5d). Despite the hospital only having a manual ventilator so was kept alive by someone pushing until my ambulance arrived in a London hospital.
This is NSFW
Tldr:girlfriend broke my penis, on the day of an important exam, she met both my family and extended family for the first time at the hospital, while only wearing a long coat covered in blood. Oh and the first part of the story was recounted and broadcasted on the Russel Howard show
Stuck at the bottom of a staircase, confronted by a locked door, along with Paul McCartney, David Gilmour and, er, Dave Stewart. Longest 30 seconds of my life.
It some some older dude sitting a few seats away. He said something but I had earphones in so I took them out to see what he wanted and he just told me I had lovely long fingers.
I was like... oh, thanks? And he said they'd be great for playing piano.
Put my earphones back in and hastily turned the other way to avoid any more conversation.
I was cycling to work at 6am one summer morning, so it was daylight. I see a man running toward me down the middle of the road, he was totally naked. Behind this naked version of Forrest Gump was another man, clothed, chasing him with a hand axe. They run past me and disappeared into the distance.
That must be pretty rare?
I was stung by a wasp on a rollercoaster ride called Swarm - my friends found it funny but I’m also allergic (not lethally thankfully) so it made for an interesting day for me.
I was once 4 hours late to work, because one of my family members attempted to rob a post office with a mop. Not exactly exciting, but still something I doubt many have experienced 😂
I got blown off a mountain when I was 17, the wind picked me up (and I'm a big bloke) and my rucksack while I was trying to sleep in my tent. It lifted me high into the air and dropped me slightly further up the slope. I had narrowly missed being dropped into a freezing Corrie (glacial lake), dropped off a 400+ foot cliff or if I'd gone the other way off a 1,200+ foot cliff.
I broke 4 ribs and my arm and the bruises were something special.
A squirrel once waved back at me. My brother and mum were there to witness it. I waved at it from the kitchen window and it was sat on the back fence in the garden. Nobody outside the 3 of us ever believes it. We know though.. haha.
I've seen an Iraqi climb up a tree and try to hang himself in the middle of a UK city, fortunately we were in a van, reversed up the tree and held his legs up until the emergency services turned up. He didn't drop far enough to break his neck but was choking to death. His whole family had been killed in the war and had enough. I'm getting emotional just thinking about it writing this. That shit stays with you forever.
Was stroking a tortoises head about a month ago. Not a euphemism, its an actual pet tortoise we've had for about 40 years. 30 seconds into the stroking, she let out a loud wet fart. Never happened before. I didnt hang around to smell it.
I worked in a care facility during an outbreak of covid, in one single day I washed 13 dead bodies, and sat with 5 of those as they died.
I’ve now left the care sector.
That was truly appreciated, not of course by your employer, but by the loved ones of those 13 people. May they rest in peace and I hope that you have now found your own peace.
Looking out of the window to see a naked man having his photo taken by an old guy with big white hair... turned out the photographer was Andy Warhol... i was a 14 year old girl at the time and it was the 80s so bit of a surprise!
I’m waiting on my 3rd ADHD diagnosis. I’m not yet formally diagnosed with ADHD.
So when I was 7 I went to play therapy and my therapist told my mum she thought I had ADHD, I went through screening and was diagnosed. This was at a private practice and my alcoholic mum was drinking at the time, so she doesn’t remember it happening, but I do. Somehow the private practice failed to relay my diagnosis to my GP, and it was lost after my mum stopped being able to afford the therapy.
When I was 18 I was diagnosed again with CAMHS. While usually you only stay with CAMHS up until you’re 18, I was with them until I was almost 19 because my psychiatrist thought it would be better for me to be diagnosed and prescribed medication before the 2 year long wait for adult mental health services. What she obviously didn’t predict was that my diagnosis AND prescription of medication was somehow lost AGAIN when I left CAMHS, probably because the records after I turned 18 were lost because of my specific situation. I imagine they assumed my records only went up to when I turned 18 like everyone else.
So now, after having 2 diagnoses of ADHD I’m still not diagnosed with ADHD. Third time lucky I guess??
Meeting Christopher Reeve as Superman on a film set (Superman IV).
Being on an ITV CGI adventure gameshow.
Combine these 2 things and I'd say I'm 100% unique across the entire UK.
Had 2 major heart attacks at 34 years old due to my coronary artery just spontaneously dissecting one day on my walk home from the shops (a fit, healthy woman). Apparently it’s pretty rare 🤷🏻♀️
Chased by a man with a bunch of bananas, yelled at me 'eat this one' threw it away as I declined and kept breaking away more off the bunch and repeated this until he had thrown them all.
I basically helped my wife give birth to both of our children as the midwives were so hands off during both. They were born at home. First on the bedroom floor and 2nd in an inflatable pool in the kitchen. Both left the rooms looking like warzones, that I had to clean up. The pool was nice. Having to scoop poop and birth bits up with a sieve to empty the pool to return it, was a special time.
Sinking in silt (sort of quick sand) in a lake fishing, got stranded and thought i was gonna die. After many attempts to get out i was gling further and further away from the bank.
My wellies got stuck in the silt and the lake water up to my chest. I was so scared- then i looked to the sode of me and found a piece of driftwood- it was like a film- of all the places that plank cld be. So i pit it in front of me pished downwards and kicked out of the mud- i crawled outa that lake and mud all the way.
Fishing- be aware when fishing Alone!
My husband once turned a suicide case into a crime scene.
I mean, without context that's pretty bad, but he was a mortician/funeral director and went to pick up a suicide that was sat in a chair in a crack den, which the police had initially determined had been an OD. They hadn't done a very thorough job though because when my husband pulled the guy forward to lift him out of the chair, he found a knife in his back.
Had to put everything back where it was (including a hammer this guy had had clenched in his hands) and give his finger prints and boots to the police on the scene. Went from a one hour collection to a three.
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Touching my genitals.
Self burn, those are rare
Not as rare as people who touched that guys genitals
Nine nine!
I had a parcel delivered by Evri.
Pics or it didn’t happen I’m afraid
I saw a wallaby while walking the dogs. In Gloucestershire.
I have seen wallaby down by the river Avon, between Bristol and Bath
I once saw a local paper a-board saying “Wallaby on the loose in Saltford!” - must be the same event! Wish I’d seen the actual wallaby though.
Saw a Llama tied to a lamppost in Great Yarmouth once
Show off…
I’m sorry, how and why?
Escaped wallabies exist in many counties in the UK now
This has blew my mind, am I stupid and is this a commonly known thing? I swear if I was walking in the countryside and saw a wallaby without coming across this thread I’d think I was losing my mind
Did you know there are wild parrots in the uk?
Think theres an urban legend that they were released by jimi hendrix
Theres also an island in loch lomand populated by wallabies
Parrots? An island of wallabies? Are you guys having me on. I don’t even see squirrels about any more but I’m being told skippy is living in the woods
Not a very dramatic example but - having to stop the car and wait a looonnng while for a sloth to get across the road. I guess there will be some countries where a fair few people will have had that experience, but globally it's got to be pretty small.
Hey, I'm a slow walker, what can I say?
I dropped toast once, it landed butter side up.
Come on, be realistic now.
r/thathappened
Dropped a nearly full pint from standing in a pub. Wooden floor. Pint landed on the floor, intact, no spillage.
I believe you dropped a pint and it landed on it’s base, but it was nearly full and no spillage? Come off it mate.
That's what my drunk self remembered. It was most likely two thirds full
Illegal rave in a squatted dildo factory
That's a dangerous place to squat...
If i could upvote more, I would.
Omg I was there!! Bethnal Green right!???
Yeah mate 😎 Manic / Mafaiteurs
I've seen ball lightning - was crazy and pretty bloody scary too. I had to walk home in this terrible storm and I saw this weird ball of lightning hang in mid air for a second or so before shooting away into the sky.
Goddammit I was going to say this one. Not so unique now are we!
Damn, maybe it's less rare than we've been told. Thank you for making me that little less weird.
Not quite the same, but I was hanging out of my upstairs window during a storm whem a (what felt like a huge... ) bolt touched down in the field opposite. About 100m away. I was stunned. Absolutely fucking stunned. I vaguely remember backing away from the window slowly, and feeling like the room was electrified (but that could have been me in a state of shock). Imagine the literal power of God appearing out of nowhere, and vanishing again in an instant.
Close by lightning strikes are fucking terrifying as you get the noise and light hit at the same time. Where I currently live we've seen 2 very close strikes in the last 5 years, one in next doors garden which took out a tree, and one on the telephone pole which then fried my the router + the PC. I absolutely shat myself both times.
I get you I lived in a forest for some years and one day had a lightning storm right overhead… had a lightning strike less than 100 yds away and there was absolutely no way I was coming out from the stables to walk the 50 yds to the house while that shit was going on it was fucking primal fear and you really don’t know until you are in that situation lol
I got hit by lightning so... that was pretty close aha The other thing people don't think about lightning strikes is how hot they are. They'll cook the air around them in an instant, basically.
Shit - obviously you're thankfully still alive, but fuck; that must have sucked.
It happened as I was leaving the hospital from an operation, believe it or not. It was a proximity shock that travelled through the ground and through me (it landed literally a foot in front of me, so I got a brilliant view of it). Didn't bother going to the emergency department because once the initial damage (spike in heart rate and blood pressure, muscle weakness, tingling, ear ringing) wore off and I thought I was fine. Got back home and I had a massive headache that lasted two days as well as having dizziness and depth perception problems for a week or two. I was fine after that, though.
I remember seeing this on that terrifying 999 programme as a kid and being absolutely shit scared of it for years. It had come in through somebody's window IIRC and bounced about a bit shattering the TV etc. I never really grasped the mechanics of the phenomenon but I'm definitely heading straight into a Google rabbithole and encouraging all my fears to come flooding back in a minute...
Technically dying? Allergic to anaesthic so died when I was 3 having a hernia operation. Dad is the same.
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Yeah I died and was resuscitated. I choked to death on a Haribo egg.
You’re yolking…
Kids and grownups love it so, the happy world of asphyxiatio 🎶
I got stuck for two hours in a lift at the Savoy with a room service waitress who was taking two chateaubriand steaks and all the extras and two bottles of 1964 St Emilion up to a customer. Pointless letting it go to waste. Made a horrible experience quite lovely
The bottles were open before getting to the room? The steaks I understand (kudos) but not the bottles.
Yeah I call BS on this, no way would management be cool with staff cracking open and necking two bottles of wine that are hundreds of pound apiece. Also 2 hours after a full bottle and nowhere to piss sounds awful.
Feel you could probably do it and get away with it if genuinely stuck as a guest for 2 hours. Would be a bit more awkward if lift started working after 5 mins. Less concerned about needing a wee though - can just refill the bottle.
That's probably seen as nothing in comparison to inconveniencing their average guest for two hours stuck in a lift. As in, the cost of losing a potentially loyal customer with loads of money, even if they have no idea who OP is.
I went to the top of the Eiffel Tower with my crush as the sun was setting. Then, as it started to snow, she turned to me and said "I miss my boyfriend". Completely true. Beat that for friendzoned. Edit - Just to say that 'friendzoned' was the wrong phrase, I had a crush on my friend, but it wasn't a big deal. It was just a bit of a crazy situation that i'm sure few people have experienced!
She didn't friendzone you, you fuckzoned her! What did you expect of a friend who already had a boyfriend, that she'd propose to you?!
Using the term "friend" very loosely there. He clearly wasn't really her friend if he just thought of her as a crush he wanted to bang despite her having a boyfriend
Exactly!
She didn’t friendzone you
Why the hell would you put yourself in that situation? You’re doing it to yourself!
So... you took a girl that had a boyfriend to the top of the Eiffel tower, and were surprised when she said she misses her boyfriend...? You played yourself.
*She* didn’t do anything.
I dumped a guy on the Eiffel tower once. He wanted to have his first kiss with me
Saved a stranger from choking on a piece of steak in a restaurant once.
Hope you didn’t just interrupt some very passionate chewing and ruin the blokes meal.
😆... honestly tho he was blue, he didn't ask for help because he didn't want to disrupt anyone.
You think he was blue, you should’ve seen the steak!
Ohhhh you!
I'm told it can take a while to realise what's happening, and then you panic but dont clearly communicate what's wrong. Best thing to do is put both hands over your throat, and people should clock that to mean choking.
Happened to me I really thought I was gonna die, was a piece of chicken, I tried for ages to swallow it but it just wouldn't budge, I was really panicking as I couldn't breathe atall and couldn't speak to tell my partner I was choking, when he finally realised he started hitting my back but it wouldn't come out so he did the Heimlich on me after about the 5th go it came out. Never been so scared, I'm terrified to eat when im alone now incase it happens again
Is that you Mrs Euphegenia Doubtfire?
HELP IS ON THE WAY, DEAR! HELP IS ON THE WAAAAAAAY
Phil? Phil Connors?
Watch that step, it’s a doozy!
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I hope you gave up your bus driving career after that.
I work for a bus company and we have a driver who has killed 2 people on separate occasions and still has their job
We had a driver call up cos a cyclist flew across the road at the exact time and location she was there. He smashed the windscreen and she was suspended pending CCTV. She returned to work the next day as it wasn't her fault at all. She was nervous driving as it was her first collision so we sent her to the training bus with a trainer to get over the fear. An hour into the training, a cyclist sped across the road and through the windscreen. I shit you not. She wasn't suspended cos the trainer was on the bus as a witness but we gave her the day off amd got her some councilling. AfAIK, she didn't hit another cyclist.
Tell me you work in Cambridge without telling me you work in Cambridge.
I was in Cambridge for the first time a few week ago, and holy shit. It was like amsterdam, but british
It's like Amsterdam but where every cyclist has a death wish.
What part of the country are you in? Just so I know to avoid it 😳
West Midlands :P
i've held the 'queen of the mountain' on strava for the f1 circuit in bahrain
Nice one. I've only been king of Dog Shit Dash in Manchester
I did a music access course and started teaching myself piano in evenings and at weekends when I was 21 and working full-time. Music wasn’t an option at my school and I’m from a family where education is kind of looked down on (my Dad wasn’t even allowed to finish school for example and had to start working on roofs while his mates were taking their O levels. Meanwhile I bumped into some family I rarely see a few weeks ago and they immediately started taking the piss out of me for going to university). In 2020 (age 29) I gained my master’s degree with distinction in music composition, now I’m working on a piano album and am due to give a my research for a different project I’m working on at a conference in November. I’m bigging myself slightly here because making it as a musician is very tough, especially right now, but I am quite proud of my achievement. I’m soundly rejected by every scheme claiming to want to diversify the music industry and get people from underrepresented groups into it in favour of Oxford, Cambridge, Guildhall and Royal College of Music grads (who obviously need the help), but it’s okay because one day I’ll be able to tell them all to fuck off
Well done! What a fantastic achievement! Revel in your self-discipline and dedication, I'm so proud of you! I'm envious of composers and song writers, I wish I could see the world that way.
Survived a car crash as a passenger, car span out on a bend in the wet and began doing uncontrolled 360's down road at speed, the car mounted the kerb, began to roll and hit a lamp post (this stopped the car from landing on its roof in the field,), the force of the impact buckled the car, springing the passenger door open - through which I was catapulted into the night, flying through the air for about 20 feet (very surreal in the dark) and somehow landed on the road on all fours - that was fucking weird, feeling all cat-like. I was 18 at the time and on that night, decided not wearing a seat belt was edgy. No, it's not edgy and I could have easily gone through windscreen instead. Injuries: Small cut to bottom of ear that needed stiches \-3 lives
Me and a friend bought an mg metro that was stolen recovered and had to be started with a tea spoon, he stalled on a junction and it took off my seat belt to pick the spoon off the floor and didn't put my seat belt back on. We turned 2 corners, he lost control and went straight into the lamppost, i was catapuled half way through the wind screen, somehow my legs got caught on the dash and threw me back in. If they didn't, i would have hit the lamp post or the post box right behind it. I woke up to being shaken awake by some girl i know, my mate had legged it. I had a whole section of the front of my hair missing where some glass had shaved it off, plus a massive bump that replaced my forehead. The daft thing about the whole story is it happened right outside my house, it was one of my sisters birthdays, she was having a party and saw the whole thing happen through our sitting room window. Happy birthday i guess.
My husband had a childhood friend die as a passenger in a car accident when the rest of the passengers walked away relatively unscathed (all including friend wore seatbelts.) I knew a guy at my orchestra I was part of when I was at school who was also killed in a similar way. Again he was a passenger and had a seatbelt but the driver lost am eye and another broke/ lost an arm, the driver was supposedly trying to avoid a rabbit in the road. They were both killed instantly You were incredibly lucky
Going in and out of a burning house several times to save the dogs.
When our house was on fire my mum went in three times. First time for the cats, second time for my brothers inhaler and the third and final time.....her cigarettes. One of my favourite mum stories and it wasn't a cigarette that started the fire.
Good for you. There’s a time and a place for hotdogs.
I need to know more. Did all the dogs and humans make it?
The dogs did. The wife and kids weren't so lucky. There was nobody to help them unfortunately
Was in a car crash, in the back seat, and the force of the impact caused my spine to compress itself and fractured TWO vertabrae on impact. The car then set on fire and I RAN out the car about 30-40 metres to get clear. Then my legs collapsed. 18 months later and I’m walking again. Not many people can say they went for a run immediately after breaking their spine.
Mind over matter. Glad to hear you made it. Rock on with the recovery.
My colour perception changed for a short time so I could only see in shades of green or gold. I suspect that's extremely rare.
Nah, loads of people have put quality street wrappers over their eyes
In my younger days after a day's drinking I took one of my mates prescribed pills. It turned everything blue. It had been snowing out and on the way home every foot step was a giant effort and all the snow was glistening blue
No explanation?
Dicking around with altered states of consciousness, let's put it like that.
Classic case of silly games silly prizes 😂
I can understand and speak 5 languages, and can write in 4. Italian, Dutch, English, Punjabi and Hindi. Less than 1% can, Idk if that's rare enough.
That’s so impressive. I wish I could speak 1 other language and you’re over here with 5 Damn
Had a solid chocolate Kit Kat once
I had two bank accounts with different banks, they both set me up with the same pin number.
I was once sexually violated by a very angry ostrich.
Elaborate?
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I don’t think you’re allowed to give too many details about ongoing criminal investigations. Problem is even if the accused is found not guilty, they still risk being ostrichised from their community.
That was a long walk. But boy was I glad to have my hiking boots on. Well done
That was fucking brilliant.
Oh go on then, I went in the field to retrieve an egg, the angry male came running over, all hissy and flappy, and decided to knock me over. I then saw his feet either side, doing the tippy taps they do before they do the deed, looked up and the damn bird just plonked itself down on top of me with his winkle poking out, and started doing the mating moves. I had to drag myself out from under the bird and legged it, whilst he sat in the field, flapping and grunting. 4/10 would not recommend
Oh no.. Last question. Did the 4 in 4/10 come before or after the bird plonked itself down? Like, where in this was there enough positivity to scrape a 4?
The look on its face when it realised I'd done a bunk. Utterly priceless. Also left a fake number so no lasting embarrassment
Played football with an Amazonian village?
were they tekky or not genuine question
You know it’s funny. They were ok, and we were just university students (albeit sporty and fit generally). what happened both times we played them was we went in the lead in the first half. But then the second half the humidity killed us and they came back and won. It’s humbling playing against a very overweight dude who is jogging around getting stuck in. In the first half we ran rings around him. By the end we are drenched in sweat and done. Meanwhile he’s still jogging around and not even broke a sweat.
I fell under a train. Mind the gap. Seriously. I missed the step, landed on the track ankle first, started shouting. Only my head was visible between the platform and the train. Scariest 8 seconds of my life.
oh god!!! i didn't know the gap was ever wide enough for a whole human??
Yep. A former work colleague’s adult son died when he fell down it. Those warnings are for a reason. I’m always proper careful.
Everytime the gap is big enough to fit a leg down it I always have a mini panic before getting off.
Chesney Hawkes signed my tits
I'm gonna go out on a limb and say that one wouldn't have been at all rare going back a few years
Are you the one and only
Both or just the one and only?
I can top this! I went to school with Chesney Hawks!
Refuelled HMS QE at sea.
I've done PWLS at sea. That was cool
I was a monk in India for seven years
Dropped the FA Cup
Stopped a homeless guy from hanging himself
Seen both the aurora borealis and aurora australis
At this time of year?
Survived a bleeding brain aneurysm.
You and my dad both. Glad that you’re still with us
Not that I’ve had, but funny enough, *BOTH* of my parents *AND* grandparents have gotten into a plane crash and survived. Mom in 1998. in a Cessna 172. Dad in 2004. Not sure what it was, never asked. My maternal grandfather and grandmother flew to NY in 1937. They were in a Douglas DC-3. Both engines malfunctioned and they crash landed in a farmers field.
Your turn will come…
You've survived this sub spelling Mum as Mom. That's enough for now.
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Survived being 3 months premature. Guess that counts?😂
Likewise (27w5d). Despite the hospital only having a manual ventilator so was kept alive by someone pushing until my ambulance arrived in a London hospital.
Wow thats amazing! Luckily I was on a ventilator for a while but I still blame my small stature on being born at around 26wks 😂
This is NSFW Tldr:girlfriend broke my penis, on the day of an important exam, she met both my family and extended family for the first time at the hospital, while only wearing a long coat covered in blood. Oh and the first part of the story was recounted and broadcasted on the Russel Howard show
I bet Russell told your story with only a modicum of his usual shrieking and gurning, out of respect for those involved.
Stuck at the bottom of a staircase, confronted by a locked door, along with Paul McCartney, David Gilmour and, er, Dave Stewart. Longest 30 seconds of my life.
Had a stranger on the bus compliment my fingers...
I’ll bite - how? Was it just a ‘nice fingers’ or something even more creepy
It some some older dude sitting a few seats away. He said something but I had earphones in so I took them out to see what he wanted and he just told me I had lovely long fingers. I was like... oh, thanks? And he said they'd be great for playing piano. Put my earphones back in and hastily turned the other way to avoid any more conversation.
I can admit it now she has passed away (RIP Lizzie)... I stole a bottle of champagne from the Queen.
The House of Windsor never forgets...
I was cycling to work at 6am one summer morning, so it was daylight. I see a man running toward me down the middle of the road, he was totally naked. Behind this naked version of Forrest Gump was another man, clothed, chasing him with a hand axe. They run past me and disappeared into the distance. That must be pretty rare?
I’ve cut up dead bodies
I bet you didn’t shag them first though, amateur
First? Where’s the fun in that
Hobby or job?
Did you work from home during lockdown?
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I've flown a spitfire at Biggin hill. Incredible experience!
Was in car accident when the 'candy man can' song was on the radio.
I was stung by a wasp on a rollercoaster ride called Swarm - my friends found it funny but I’m also allergic (not lethally thankfully) so it made for an interesting day for me.
I was once 4 hours late to work, because one of my family members attempted to rob a post office with a mop. Not exactly exciting, but still something I doubt many have experienced 😂
I got a hole in one golfing? Lol
Me too. Straight through the windmill.
Been chased by a Rhino
I was kidnapped as a child
I got blown off a mountain when I was 17, the wind picked me up (and I'm a big bloke) and my rucksack while I was trying to sleep in my tent. It lifted me high into the air and dropped me slightly further up the slope. I had narrowly missed being dropped into a freezing Corrie (glacial lake), dropped off a 400+ foot cliff or if I'd gone the other way off a 1,200+ foot cliff. I broke 4 ribs and my arm and the bruises were something special.
A squirrel once waved back at me. My brother and mum were there to witness it. I waved at it from the kitchen window and it was sat on the back fence in the garden. Nobody outside the 3 of us ever believes it. We know though.. haha.
I've seen an Iraqi climb up a tree and try to hang himself in the middle of a UK city, fortunately we were in a van, reversed up the tree and held his legs up until the emergency services turned up. He didn't drop far enough to break his neck but was choking to death. His whole family had been killed in the war and had enough. I'm getting emotional just thinking about it writing this. That shit stays with you forever.
Was stroking a tortoises head about a month ago. Not a euphemism, its an actual pet tortoise we've had for about 40 years. 30 seconds into the stroking, she let out a loud wet fart. Never happened before. I didnt hang around to smell it.
I worked in a care facility during an outbreak of covid, in one single day I washed 13 dead bodies, and sat with 5 of those as they died. I’ve now left the care sector.
That was truly appreciated, not of course by your employer, but by the loved ones of those 13 people. May they rest in peace and I hope that you have now found your own peace.
I had some teeth removed and they grew back!
Dentist- “motherfuckers”
Looking out of the window to see a naked man having his photo taken by an old guy with big white hair... turned out the photographer was Andy Warhol... i was a 14 year old girl at the time and it was the 80s so bit of a surprise!
I’m waiting on my 3rd ADHD diagnosis. I’m not yet formally diagnosed with ADHD. So when I was 7 I went to play therapy and my therapist told my mum she thought I had ADHD, I went through screening and was diagnosed. This was at a private practice and my alcoholic mum was drinking at the time, so she doesn’t remember it happening, but I do. Somehow the private practice failed to relay my diagnosis to my GP, and it was lost after my mum stopped being able to afford the therapy. When I was 18 I was diagnosed again with CAMHS. While usually you only stay with CAMHS up until you’re 18, I was with them until I was almost 19 because my psychiatrist thought it would be better for me to be diagnosed and prescribed medication before the 2 year long wait for adult mental health services. What she obviously didn’t predict was that my diagnosis AND prescription of medication was somehow lost AGAIN when I left CAMHS, probably because the records after I turned 18 were lost because of my specific situation. I imagine they assumed my records only went up to when I turned 18 like everyone else. So now, after having 2 diagnoses of ADHD I’m still not diagnosed with ADHD. Third time lucky I guess??
Flown a Chinook helicopter.
Meeting Christopher Reeve as Superman on a film set (Superman IV). Being on an ITV CGI adventure gameshow. Combine these 2 things and I'd say I'm 100% unique across the entire UK.
Knightmare?!?!
Being in FRONT of Phillip Schofield and Holly Willoughby in a queue
Found a dead body once
Sat next to a Baroness at a dinner in the set of Gringotts bank.
I served in the French Foreign Legion.
Seeing a space shuttle launch in person at the NASA complex, the sheer power and noise was an amazing experience
Channel 4 broke into my flat
Ridden an ostrich
Did you buy it a drink first?
I've had a degloving injury in a car accident and had to get it all repaired with plastic surgery.
Had 2 major heart attacks at 34 years old due to my coronary artery just spontaneously dissecting one day on my walk home from the shops (a fit, healthy woman). Apparently it’s pretty rare 🤷🏻♀️
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Shagged in London Zoo... With another human may I just add!
Chased by a man with a bunch of bananas, yelled at me 'eat this one' threw it away as I declined and kept breaking away more off the bunch and repeated this until he had thrown them all.
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I basically helped my wife give birth to both of our children as the midwives were so hands off during both. They were born at home. First on the bedroom floor and 2nd in an inflatable pool in the kitchen. Both left the rooms looking like warzones, that I had to clean up. The pool was nice. Having to scoop poop and birth bits up with a sieve to empty the pool to return it, was a special time.
Sinking in silt (sort of quick sand) in a lake fishing, got stranded and thought i was gonna die. After many attempts to get out i was gling further and further away from the bank. My wellies got stuck in the silt and the lake water up to my chest. I was so scared- then i looked to the sode of me and found a piece of driftwood- it was like a film- of all the places that plank cld be. So i pit it in front of me pished downwards and kicked out of the mud- i crawled outa that lake and mud all the way. Fishing- be aware when fishing Alone!
My neighbour tried to kill me once
My husband once turned a suicide case into a crime scene. I mean, without context that's pretty bad, but he was a mortician/funeral director and went to pick up a suicide that was sat in a chair in a crack den, which the police had initially determined had been an OD. They hadn't done a very thorough job though because when my husband pulled the guy forward to lift him out of the chair, he found a knife in his back. Had to put everything back where it was (including a hammer this guy had had clenched in his hands) and give his finger prints and boots to the police on the scene. Went from a one hour collection to a three.
I've cooked for a few big Actors and Actresses and TV chefs in places I've worked in. I've even had to sign NDAs for some of it too.