Stories

<p>Whether or not you believe in God or the existence of guardian angels, if you&#39;ve ever dodged a proverbial or literal bullet, it sure can feel like some kind of protective being is looking down on you, narrowly saving you from disaster.</p><h2>Someone <a href="https://www.reddit.com/r/AskReddit/comments/lqjmm8/whats_the_biggest_bullet_youve_ever_dodged/" target="_blank">asked</a> Reddit: &quot;What&#39;s the biggest bullet you&#39;ve ever dodged?&quot; These 20 people share stories of how they narrowly avoided a tragic or unfortunate scenario:</h2><p>1.) From <a href="https://www.reddit.com/user/SaltySteveD87/">SaltySteveD87</a>:</p><blockquote> <p>Once at a bar a woman was surprisingly into me as we danced. If I had had more confidence back then I definitely could&rsquo;ve taken her home.</p> <p>In the end, one of my karaoke buddies ended up with her instead and got caught by her husband that night.</p> </blockquote><p>2.) From <a href="https://www.reddit.com/user/SaveTheNature/">SaveTheNature</a>:</p><blockquote> <p>High school gf wanted to talk about baby names. I was headed to college. No thoughts of being a parent! My mom even found a note in my pocket listing her favorites if we had a boy. Anyway, we broke up after 2 years. The next guy she dated was a dad within 9.5mos.</p> </blockquote><div className="ad-splitter"></div><p>3.) From <a href="https://www.reddit.com/user/GForceHangover/">GForceHangover</a>:</p><blockquote> <p>A literal one. A friend was showing off some handguns he bought with his first paycheck. Checked the chamber to make sure nothing was there, sighted at me and pulled the trigger. Of course, the gun was loaded. Bullet passed over my right shoulder and buried itself in a chair. We aren&rsquo;t friends anymore for some odd reason.</p> </blockquote><p>4.) From <a href="https://www.reddit.com/user/gus93/">gus93</a>:</p><blockquote> <p>That time I didn&#39;t go along for the ride when a friend of mine was running weed (years ago, back when it was more illegal). I was bored and unemployed at the time, and passed on this trip because I had to go to a job interview to be a zombie for Halloween festivities at an amusement park. I got the job, my friend got arrested and did 30 days in jail.</p> </blockquote><div className="ad-splitter"></div><p>5.) From <a href="https://www.reddit.com/user/CaptainPlummet/">CaptainPlummet</a>:</p><blockquote> <p>I almost fell for a pyramid scheme in high school. My friend brought me to one of their meetings (ACN) and I was SO on board, but my parents talked me down. I was upset at them until I learned more about MLM&rsquo;s and quickly changed my mind.</p> <p>Sometimes I imagine where I&rsquo;d be now if I went through with it. It wouldn&rsquo;t be pretty, that&rsquo;s for sure.</p> </blockquote><p>6.) From <a href="https://www.reddit.com/user/CH-OS-EN/">CH-OS-EN</a>:</p><blockquote> <p>Got wasted on freshly cooked plum spirit, in the middle of winter, in the mountains, south west of france. Decided to go home instead of sleeping it off. I was staying with some friends, 1km away so it wasn&rsquo;t a long walk... the friends i was staying with wanted to party a bit longer. 4 hours later, I dodged a bullet when they checked to see if i was there instead of going straight to bed. They retraced their steps, and found me in a ditch, covered in snow (and probably piss) with my fly open, across the street from where i left the party. 100% would have died of hypothermia since it was freezing and snowing, and i didn&rsquo;t wake up from that coma until the next day.</p> </blockquote><div className="ad-splitter"></div><p>7.) From <a href="https://www.reddit.com/user/Wolfie1531/">Wolfie1531</a>:</p><blockquote> <p>Alcoholism.</p> <p>I was trending towards work/play video games and get drunk as a lifestyle. I battled bouts of alcoholism in the past. A lot when I was depressed.</p> <p>I met my now wife and my life got better (she believed in the man I am, not the one I was becoming). Then we had our little guy, and I&rsquo;ve not been so much as tipsy since.</p> <p>When the world is better off, might I go to the odd party and have a few? Sure, if the kid is cared for and my responsibilities are too, but &ldquo;on occasion&rdquo; is a far cry from a &ldquo;lifestyle&rdquo;.</p> </blockquote><p>8.) From <a href="https://www.reddit.com/user/I_Am_A_Master-Baiter/">I_Am_A_Master-Baiter</a>:</p><blockquote> <p>When I was about 10 years old I leaned backwards onto a tall bookcase shelf, which happened to have a sword collection on the highest shelf. Many of these swords had their blades exposed for show.</p> <p>And what would happen at that very moment? That shelf gave way and all of the swords came and landed on me (including my head). Surprisingly, I got not a single cut, no concussion, and only a small bruise on the head. And being young, I dismissed this incident with gracious forgetfulness.</p> </blockquote><div className="ad-splitter"></div><p>9.) From <a href="https://www.reddit.com/user/bryaninmsp/">bryaninmsp</a>:</p><blockquote> <p>I had two job offers in different states at the same time. The one I didn&#39;t take was offering more money, but I just didn&#39;t gel with the guy who would be my boss and really liked the guy who would be my boss at the lower offer. The better offer was in a state I had always wanted to live in, for a company I admired, but something felt off so I went with the lower offer.</p> </blockquote><blockquote> <p>I ended up meeting my wife in the city of the lower offer. Meanwhile, the company that had given me the higher offer abruptly closed and laid off their entire staff with no severance; so if I had taken that I would have been stuck on the other side of the country with no job and no money.</p> </blockquote><div className="ad-splitter"></div><p>10.) From <a href="https://www.reddit.com/user/ShouldaBeenStevie/">ShouldaBeenStevie</a>:</p><blockquote> <p>Summer 1999. I was on an overseas flight with a connection in Amsterdam. JFK Jr&#39;s death by plane crash was big news that week and it was all over the newspapers. Loud guy behind me spent the flight talking about how safe airline travel is and almost bragging that since JFK Jr had just crashed that statistically we were even safer. We arrived slightly late and needed to circle before landing. Crew announced that anyone on my connecting flight should have priority to disembark because the delay meant it would be tight.</p> </blockquote><blockquote> <p>We landed and the loud guy behind me made a big show of getting up and blocking the aisle. I told him I was on the connection and asked him to move and he protested saying they wouldn&#39;t leave without me. I was pissed and we argued, he kept refusing to move. I tried to flag staff but he started getting weirdly aggressive and I got scared (young female travelling alone). I quietly waited and disembarked, then hauled ass to the connection gate (if you&#39;ve not seen Schiphol Airport, it&#39;s huge!). I missed my connecting flight.</p> </blockquote><div className="ad-splitter"></div><blockquote> <p>I got sent to wait at another gate for a flight a couple hours later. I was sat by the window watching planes when I could see emergency crews deploying toward the runway. The flight I was supposed to be on had a problem at take off and crashed! From the news I learned there were only minor injuries and everyone got off safely but the plane was on fire and passengers lost everything. The next year the first Final Destination film was released and I remember being especially freaked out by it.</p> </blockquote><p>11.) From <a href="https://www.reddit.com/user/Hennesseey07/">Hennesseey07</a>:</p><blockquote> <p>Not me but my dad. He travelled to London for work back from 2001 -2007. He was booked for the day off on July 7th 2005 ( as that is my birthday) and the train he normally got to work was one of the ones that was bombed by terrorists</p> </blockquote><div className="ad-splitter"></div><p>12.) From <a href="https://www.reddit.com/user/librarianjenn/">librarianjenn</a>:</p><blockquote> <p>A drunk driver totaled my parked car about 10 minutes after I had gotten out of it.</p> </blockquote><p>13.) From <a href="https://www.reddit.com/user/chewingloud/">chewingloud</a>:</p><blockquote> <p>I really needed a job and the manager at a dispensary in my area offered me a spot. I said no and 4 days later they were raided and everyone got arrested.</p> </blockquote><p>14.) From <a href="https://www.reddit.com/user/Sarcolemming/">Sarcolemming</a>:</p><blockquote> <p>My receptionist got back from lunch and kindly offered me a sip of her Starbucks because she forgot to pick mine up. I was reaching for it and then stopped because it was January 2020 and I&rsquo;d started to hear some stories about a weird new virus and she had just traveled internationally.</p> <p>She broke with a severe case of COVID 24 hours later.</p> <p>I will never, ever drink or eat after another person again.</p> </blockquote><div className="ad-splitter"></div><p>15.) From <a href="https://www.reddit.com/user/Lentra888/">Lentra888</a>:</p><blockquote> <p>Took US-67 South from St Louis going home one day instead of I-55. Missed being involved in a ten-car pileup by taking the scenic route. With my average driving speed on 55, it&rsquo;s very likely I would have been in the pileup or just a few cars behind it. No way I would&rsquo;ve been ahead of it.</p> </blockquote><p>16.) From <a href="https://www.reddit.com/user/ElToberino/">ElToberino</a>:</p><blockquote> <p>Not me but my mom. She met my dad when she was doing a summer internship in DC before starting law school, and decided to stay there instead of going to law school at the University of Utah. If she had gone, Ted Bundy would have been one of her classmates.</p> </blockquote><p>17.) From <a href="https://www.reddit.com/user/MadameK8/">MadameK8</a>:</p><div className="ad-splitter"></div><blockquote> <p>I graduated the year before frozen came out. I don&rsquo;t think I would have been able to handle being surrounded by bunches of teenage girls singing &ldquo;let it go&rdquo; day in and day out.</p> </blockquote><p>18.) From <a href="https://www.reddit.com/user/prho1/">prho1</a>:</p><blockquote> <p>A year ago (almost to the day) I was offered a new job. It was exactly what I was looking for and was really excited. They told me they would email the contract but after a week I hadn&#39;t had anything. After a lot of chasing they told me they&#39;d changed the structure of the organisation so the position wasn&#39;t available. I have a months notice for my current job and if I had taken the job my notice period would have been after the cut off date for furlough in the UK. The new job was in an industry that collapsed through the pandemic and the industry I work in has boomed. If I had received that email I would have probably been close to bankruptcy now.</p> </blockquote><div className="ad-splitter"></div><p>19.) From <a href="https://www.reddit.com/user/WholeGrainMustard/">WholeGrainMustard</a>:</p><blockquote> <p>In 1996, my parents were deciding between two houses to move into. They picked the new construction that resulted in being placed on shoddy soil and years of lawsuits when we ultimately moved in 2001. Anyway, the other house they could&#39;ve picked (presumably on better soil) would&#39;ve placed my older sister at Columbine High School as a freshman for the 1998-1999 school year.</p> </blockquote><p>20.) From <a href="https://www.reddit.com/user/dehumo/">dehumo</a>:</p><blockquote> <p>My ex-girlfriend moved out of my house a day before the first lockdown in Spain. She previously pulled a knife on me.</p> </blockquote><div className="ad-splitter"></div>

20 people who 'dodged a bullet' share their stories.

Whether or not you believe in God or the existence of guardian angels, if you&#39;ve ever dodged a proverbial or literal bullet, it sure can feel like some kind of protective being is looking down on you, narrowly saving you from disaster.Someone asked Reddit: &quot;What&#39;s the biggest bullet you&#39;ve ever dodged?&quot; These 20 people share stories of how they narrowly avoided a tragic or unfortunate scenario:1.) From SaltySteveD87: Once at a bar a woman was surprisingly into me as we danced. If I had had more confidence back then I definitely could&rsquo;ve taken her home. In the end, one of my karaoke buddies ended up with her instead and got caught by her husband that night. 2.) From SaveTheNature: High school gf wanted to talk about baby names. I was headed to college. No thoughts of being a parent! My mom even found a note in my pocket listing her favorites if we had a boy. Anyway, we broke up after 2 years. The next guy she dated was a dad within 9.5mos. 3.) From GForceHangover: A literal one. A friend was showing off some handguns he bought with his first paycheck. Checked the chamber to make sure nothing was there, sighted at me and pulled the trigger. Of course, the gun was loaded. Bullet passed over my right shoulder and buried itself in a chair. We aren&rsquo;t friends anymore for some odd reason. 4.) From gus93: That time I didn&#39;t go along for the ride when a friend of mine was running weed (years ago, back when it was more illegal). I was bored and unemployed at the time, and passed on this trip because I had to go to a job interview to be a zombie for Halloween festivities at an amusement park. I got the job, my friend got arrested and did 30 days in jail. 5.) From CaptainPlummet: I almost fell for a pyramid scheme in high school. My friend brought me to one of their meetings (ACN) and I was SO on board, but my parents talked me down. I was upset at them until I learned more about MLM&rsquo;s and quickly changed my mind. Sometimes I imagine where I&rsquo;d be now if I went through with it. It wouldn&rsquo;t be pretty, that&rsquo;s for sure. 6.) From CH-OS-EN: Got wasted on freshly cooked plum spirit, in the middle of winter, in the mountains, south west of france. Decided to go home instead of sleeping it off. I was staying with some friends, 1km away so it wasn&rsquo;t a long walk... the friends i was staying with wanted to party a bit longer. 4 hours later, I dodged a bullet when they checked to see if i was there instead of going straight to bed. They retraced their steps, and found me in a ditch, covered in snow (and probably piss) with my fly open, across the street from where i left the party. 100% would have died of hypothermia since it was freezing and snowing, and i didn&rsquo;t wake up from that coma until the next day. 7.) From Wolfie1531: Alcoholism. I was trending towards work/play video games and get drunk as a lifestyle. I battled bouts of alcoholism in the past. A lot when I was depressed. I met my now wife and my life got better (she believed in the man I am, not the one I was becoming). Then we had our little guy, and I&rsquo;ve not been so much as tipsy since. When the world is better off, might I go to the odd party and have a few? Sure, if the kid is cared for and my responsibilities are too, but &ldquo;on occasion&rdquo; is a far cry from a &ldquo;lifestyle&rdquo;. 8.) From I_Am_A_Master-Baiter: When I was about 10 years old I leaned backwards onto a tall bookcase shelf, which happened to have a sword collection on the highest shelf. Many of these swords had their blades exposed for show. And what would happen at that very moment? That shelf gave way and all of the swords came and landed on me (including my head). Surprisingly, I got not a single cut, no concussion, and only a small bruise on the head. And being young, I dismissed this incident with gracious forgetfulness. 9.) From bryaninmsp: I had two job offers in different states at the same time. The one I didn&#39;t take was offering more money, but I just didn&#39;t gel with the guy who would be my boss and really liked the guy who would be my boss at the lower offer. The better offer was in a state I had always wanted to live in, for a company I admired, but something felt off so I went with the lower offer.  I ended up meeting my wife in the city of the lower offer. Meanwhile, the company that had given me the higher offer abruptly closed and laid off their entire staff with no severance; so if I had taken that I would have been stuck on the other side of the country with no job and no money. 10.) From ShouldaBeenStevie: Summer 1999. I was on an overseas flight with a connection in Amsterdam. JFK Jr&#39;s death by plane crash was big news that week and it was all over the newspapers. Loud guy behind me spent the flight talking about how safe airline travel is and almost bragging that since JFK Jr had just crashed that statistically we were even safer. We arrived slightly late and needed to circle before landing. Crew announced that anyone on my connecting flight should have priority to disembark because the delay meant it would be tight.  We landed and the loud guy behind me made a big show of getting up and blocking the aisle. I told him I was on the connection and asked him to move and he protested saying they wouldn&#39;t leave without me. I was pissed and we argued, he kept refusing to move. I tried to flag staff but he started getting weirdly aggressive and I got scared (young female travelling alone). I quietly waited and disembarked, then hauled ass to the connection gate (if you&#39;ve not seen Schiphol Airport, it&#39;s huge!). I missed my connecting flight.  I got sent to wait at another gate for a flight a couple hours later. I was sat by the window watching planes when I could see emergency crews deploying toward the runway. The flight I was supposed to be on had a problem at take off and crashed! From the news I learned there were only minor injuries and everyone got off safely but the plane was on fire and passengers lost everything. The next year the first Final Destination film was released and I remember being especially freaked out by it. 11.) From Hennesseey07: Not me but my dad. He travelled to London for work back from 2001 -2007. He was booked for the day off on July 7th 2005 ( as that is my birthday) and the train he normally got to work was one of the ones that was bombed by terrorists 12.) From librarianjenn: A drunk driver totaled my parked car about 10 minutes after I had gotten out of it. 13.) From chewingloud: I really needed a job and the manager at a dispensary in my area offered me a spot. I said no and 4 days later they were raided and everyone got arrested. 14.) From Sarcolemming: My receptionist got back from lunch and kindly offered me a sip of her Starbucks because she forgot to pick mine up. I was reaching for it and then stopped because it was January 2020 and I&rsquo;d started to hear some stories about a weird new virus and she had just traveled internationally. She broke with a severe case of COVID 24 hours later. I will never, ever drink or eat after another person again. 15.) From Lentra888: Took US-67 South from St Louis going home one day instead of I-55. Missed being involved in a ten-car pileup by taking the scenic route. With my average driving speed on 55, it&rsquo;s very likely I would have been in the pileup or just a few cars behind it. No way I would&rsquo;ve been ahead of it. 16.) From ElToberino: Not me but my mom. She met my dad when she was doing a summer internship in DC before starting law school, and decided to stay there instead of going to law school at the University of Utah. If she had gone, Ted Bundy would have been one of her classmates. 17.) From MadameK8: I graduated the year before frozen came out. I don&rsquo;t think I would have been able to handle being surrounded by bunches of teenage girls singing &ldquo;let it go&rdquo; day in and day out. 18.) From prho1: A year ago (almost to the day) I was offered a new job. It was exactly what I was looking for and was really excited. They told me they would email the contract but after a week I hadn&#39;t had anything. After a lot of chasing they told me they&#39;d changed the structure of the organisation so the position wasn&#39;t available. I have a months notice for my current job and if I had taken the job my notice period would have been after the cut off date for furlough in the UK. The new job was in an industry that collapsed through the pandemic and the industry I work in has boomed. If I had received that email I would have probably been close to bankruptcy now. 19.) From WholeGrainMustard: In 1996, my parents were deciding between two houses to move into. They picked the new construction that resulted in being placed on shoddy soil and years of lawsuits when we ultimately moved in 2001. Anyway, the other house they could&#39;ve picked (presumably on better soil) would&#39;ve placed my older sister at Columbine High School as a freshman for the 1998-1999 school year. 20.) From dehumo: My ex-girlfriend moved out of my house a day before the first lockdown in Spain. She previously pulled a knife on me. 

Whether or not you believe in God or the existence of guardian angels, if you&#39;ve ever dodged a proverbial or literal bullet, it sure can feel like some kind of protective being is looking down on you, narrowly saving you from disaster....