Stories

<h2>Sometimes it feels as though all the stars align, the universe paved a path specifically for you, and karma and fate decided to team up for you to earn a win...</h2><p>So, when a <a href="https://www.reddit.com/r/AskReddit/comments/1qwcdl/whats_the_luckiest_thing_thats_ever_happened_to/" target="_blank">Reddit</a> user asked, &quot;What&#39;s the luckiest thing that&#39;s ever happened to you?&quot; people were ready to share the most surprising, exciting, or too-good-to-be-true life events or moments that ever happened to them.</p><h2>1.</h2><blockquote> <p>I was at a mall and heard a woman scream from the upper level. I turned around, looked up....and reflexively caught a toddler who had somehow managed to squeeze between the iron safety rails and fallen literally on top of me, a good 20-25 feet below. Perfect catch, not a scratch. I&#39;ve replayed this in my head dozens of times and still to this day do not know how the hell I did this. - <a data-testid="comment_author_link" href="https://www.reddit.com/user/MastadonBob/">MastadonBob</a></p> </blockquote><h2>2.</h2><blockquote> <p>Got laid off two days before Christmas, had $10 in my bank account, said f*ck it &amp; bought a six pack and a $1 scratch-off. Won $1200. - <a data-testid="comment_author_link" href="https://www.reddit.com/user/babiesonacid/">babiesonacid</a></p> </blockquote><h2>3.</h2><blockquote> <p>In my Freshman year of college, my roommate went to dinner 20 minutes before i did. Because of this, he was sitting alone. Because he was sitting alone, he got invited by a girl, to sit with their table.</p> </blockquote><div className="ad-splitter"></div><blockquote> <p>When I came along, I was also invited to sit with them. This group later introduced me to the love of my life, who I never would have had any reason to meet otherwise. All because my roommate left for dinner early. - <a data-testid="comment_author_link" href="https://www.reddit.com/user/tsdchaos/">tsdchaos</a></p> </blockquote><h2>4.</h2><blockquote> <p>A while back, I was unemployed, broke as fuck, and job searching like crazy. I had applied to at least 30+ places and had some interviews over the course of 5 months, but remained jobless.</p> </blockquote><blockquote> <p>One night, I decided to walk to the local pizza place instead of get it delivered (my fiancee at the time bought the pizza). Well, on the walk back, I noticed a baby bird laying in the middle of the road. I stopped, stared at it for a moment before picking it up and setting it under a nearby bush.</p> </blockquote><blockquote> <p>Next day, I receive a call from one of the places I had recently interviewed at, asking if I could come fill in some paperwork. Sure, yeah, absolutely! Well, it turns out, the hiring manager was with her girlfriend at a bar, having a drink on the patio and happened to see me save the bird.</p> </blockquote><div className="ad-splitter"></div><blockquote> <p>Earlier in the day, she had been going through all of the potential applicants and after seeing that, decided to hire me right then. It&#39;s been a little over a year now, I no longer have my fiancee, but I still have the same job and I recently got promoted to Shift Leader - not only that, but the manager and I have become fairly good friends and she&#39;s helped me out in my personal life a lot as well. Not much to be proud of I suppose, but I couldn&#39;t have asked for anything better. - <a data-testid="comment_author_link" href="https://www.reddit.com/user/Elaphe/">Elaphe</a></p> </blockquote><h2>5.</h2><blockquote> <p>In my senior year of high school. I took and dropped a Latin language class for Study Hall. I cheated to get a C- in Latin and saw the pitiful Latin writing on the wall. When I got to study hall the Drivers Ed...</p> </blockquote><blockquote> <p>Teacher said, though I didn&#39;t know it then, the most important words I would ever hear &quot;Go sit one seat over from the girl with the dark hair.&quot; I have been dating and married to the dark haired girl ever since. I&#39;m now 53 years old. - <a data-testid="comment_author_link" href="https://www.reddit.com/user/tubewatch/">tubewatch</a></p> </blockquote><div className="ad-splitter"></div><h2>6.</h2><blockquote> <p>My wife! I hurt my arm and could not go to play soccer, so I went hang out with some friends and was introduced to her. We have been together for 15 years now (married for 3). Almost every decision I took in my life after meeting her has been influenced by her. And my life has just kept improving. Sometimes I do wonder how my life would have turned out if I had decided to not take a break from soccer that day. - <a data-testid="comment_author_link" href="https://www.reddit.com/user/kash_if/">kash_if</a></p> </blockquote><h2>7.</h2><blockquote> <p>Manhattan 1998, was clearing trash from the curb along 3rd Ave. Stood upright just in time to not get my head knocked clean off by a bus traveling 40 mph. I can still remember the rush of wind and laughing out loud from shock. The only reason I can do this is because I still have my head. - <a data-testid="comment_author_link" href="https://www.reddit.com/user/dunkybones/">dunkybones</a></p> </blockquote><h2>8.</h2><blockquote> <p>Came across a website in early 2010 that said &quot;pay with bitcoin&quot; at the bottom. And I said to myself &quot;wtf is bitcoin?&quot; I googled it, bought a bunch, then sat back. I don&#39;t worry about money anymore. - <a data-testid="comment_author_link" href="https://www.reddit.com/user/meefozio/">meefozio</a></p> </blockquote><div className="ad-splitter"></div><h2>9.</h2><blockquote> <p>One day, I was feeling kind of low and sometimes I check around OkCupid for a self esteem boost. I happened to noticed this 98% match had visited my profile a few hours before. I checked him out and he was the male equivalent of me.</p> </blockquote><blockquote> <p>I sent him my best opening message, aka, &quot;Why the f*ck didn&#39;t you message your perfect match, you think you&#39;re too good for me or something?&quot; We talked for 4 months straight, day and night. Now I&#39;ve tricked him into marrying me. That was the luckiest thing that ever happened to me. - <a data-testid="comment_author_link" href="https://www.reddit.com/user/seethella/">seethella</a></p> </blockquote><h2>10.</h2><blockquote> <p>Luckiest thing that happened to me is that we discovered how sick my wife was before losing both her and my unborn son. Thankfully they pulled him out in an emergency C-section and he just celebrated his 7th birthday.</p> </blockquote><blockquote> <p>Mom is doing fantastic now as well, double organ recipient! Gearing up for an epic Christmas vacation in the Caribbean this year. - <a data-testid="comment_author_link" href="https://www.reddit.com/user/kortekickass/">kortekickass</a></p> </blockquote><div className="ad-splitter"></div><h2>11.</h2><blockquote> <p>I broke my back and was told I&#39;d have a 3% chance to walk again. I&#39;m still walking. - <a data-testid="comment_author_link" href="https://www.reddit.com/user/skankinskier/">skankinskier</a></p> </blockquote><h2>12.</h2><blockquote> <p>I called a beer company&#39;s question &amp; comment line in hopes of getting a free shirt, they gave me an all expense paid trip to Las Vegas for me and 3 of my friends. - <a data-testid="comment_author_link" href="https://www.reddit.com/user/danbag213/">danbag213</a></p> </blockquote><h2>13.</h2><blockquote> <p>I was in a foreign airport, running late, and just missed the damn train - like the sliding door slammed on my foot. Had to wait 10 minutes for the next one. Got chatting to a girl. Now married for 6 years. - <a data-testid="comment_author_link" href="https://www.reddit.com/user/hippocratical/">hippocratical</a></p> </blockquote><h2>14.</h2><blockquote> <p>Surviving what should have been a fatal car crash. Before that day I never wore my seat belt. Yes I was an idiot. I left work that day for some reason just out of nowhere, I decided to put it on.</p> </blockquote><blockquote> <p>10 minutes later, somebody blew a stop sign from a side street and I T-boned them gong about 45-50 mph. It felt like I hit a brick wall. The car was totaled and I most likely would not have lived had I not put my seat belt on. - <a data-testid="comment_author_link" href="https://www.reddit.com/user/slicebishybosh/">slicebishybosh</a></p> </blockquote><div className="ad-splitter"></div><h2>15.</h2><blockquote> <p>Somebody knocked a glass bottle of snapple off the shelf and I had to go clean it up. I looked at the cap and it was a winner from their prize event. It was for a $500 gift card. - <a data-testid="comment_author_link" href="https://www.reddit.com/user/dpatt711/">dpatt711</a></p> </blockquote><h2>16.</h2><blockquote> <p>Two years ago I worked an 18 hour shift without eating. When I finally left I went to the grocery store across the street. Asked bakery girl for bread for sandwich, she makes me entire sandwich herself instead. Best ever. Marrying her in two weeks. Never would have met her without that long day. - <a data-testid="comment_author_link" href="https://www.reddit.com/user/catfapper/">catfapper</a></p> </blockquote><h2>17. </h2><blockquote> <p>A few years ago I had my credit card number stolen a few days before the card expired. It wasn&#39;t a card I used often and being an irresponsible university student at the time, I wasn&#39;t actually opening my statements every month (assuming the balance would stay at zero). As a result I actually didn&#39;t realize what had happened until 5 months later.</p> </blockquote><div className="ad-splitter"></div><blockquote> <p>It turns out that the person who stole my number used the card to place a &euro;500 bet on a football game at 5-1 odds. Somehow the team they picked won, turning that &euro;500 into &euro;2500 which the betting site paid out by crediting back my card.</p> </blockquote><blockquote> <p>Before they could do anything to get at the money my card expired stopping whoever stole my number from charging anything else. I didn&#39;t have to spend money on food for nearly a year. - <a data-testid="comment_author_link" href="https://www.reddit.com/user/itchy118/">itchy118</a></p> </blockquote><h2>18. </h2><blockquote> <p>I had my car stolen when I was 19. A few months later I was driving my new car from Seattle to Portland at 3am, no other traffic around, and my stolen car passed me on my left. I followed the guy for about 120 miles back to Portland.</p> </blockquote><blockquote> <p>At one point he pulled beside me and waved at me, thinking we were road-rally pals! I returned a death stare. Followed him home, called the cops, and got my car back. When I think of what had to align for my car to find me again, it blows my mind. - <a data-testid="comment_author_link" href="https://www.reddit.com/user/HarryColonicJr/">HarryColonicJr</a></p> </blockquote><div className="ad-splitter"></div>

18 people share the absolute luckiest thing that ever happened to them.

Sometimes it feels as though all the stars align, the universe paved a path specifically for you, and karma and fate decided to team up for you to earn a win...So, when a Reddit user asked, &quot;What&#39;s the luckiest thing that&#39;s ever happened to you?&quot; people were ready to share the most surprising, exciting, or too-good-to-be-true life events or moments that ever happened to them.1. I was at a mall and heard a woman scream from the upper level. I turned around, looked up....and reflexively caught a toddler who had somehow managed to squeeze between the iron safety rails and fallen literally on top of me, a good 20-25 feet below. Perfect catch, not a scratch. I&#39;ve replayed this in my head dozens of times and still to this day do not know how the hell I did this. - MastadonBob 2. Got laid off two days before Christmas, had $10 in my bank account, said f*ck it &amp; bought a six pack and a $1 scratch-off. Won $1200. - babiesonacid 3. In my Freshman year of college, my roommate went to dinner 20 minutes before i did. Because of this, he was sitting alone. Because he was sitting alone, he got invited by a girl, to sit with their table.  When I came along, I was also invited to sit with them. This group later introduced me to the love of my life, who I never would have had any reason to meet otherwise. All because my roommate left for dinner early. - tsdchaos 4. A while back, I was unemployed, broke as fuck, and job searching like crazy. I had applied to at least 30+ places and had some interviews over the course of 5 months, but remained jobless.  One night, I decided to walk to the local pizza place instead of get it delivered (my fiancee at the time bought the pizza). Well, on the walk back, I noticed a baby bird laying in the middle of the road. I stopped, stared at it for a moment before picking it up and setting it under a nearby bush.  Next day, I receive a call from one of the places I had recently interviewed at, asking if I could come fill in some paperwork. Sure, yeah, absolutely! Well, it turns out, the hiring manager was with her girlfriend at a bar, having a drink on the patio and happened to see me save the bird.  Earlier in the day, she had been going through all of the potential applicants and after seeing that, decided to hire me right then. It&#39;s been a little over a year now, I no longer have my fiancee, but I still have the same job and I recently got promoted to Shift Leader - not only that, but the manager and I have become fairly good friends and she&#39;s helped me out in my personal life a lot as well. Not much to be proud of I suppose, but I couldn&#39;t have asked for anything better. - Elaphe 5. In my senior year of high school. I took and dropped a Latin language class for Study Hall. I cheated to get a C- in Latin and saw the pitiful Latin writing on the wall. When I got to study hall the Drivers Ed...  Teacher said, though I didn&#39;t know it then, the most important words I would ever hear &quot;Go sit one seat over from the girl with the dark hair.&quot; I have been dating and married to the dark haired girl ever since. I&#39;m now 53 years old. - tubewatch 6. My wife! I hurt my arm and could not go to play soccer, so I went hang out with some friends and was introduced to her. We have been together for 15 years now (married for 3). Almost every decision I took in my life after meeting her has been influenced by her. And my life has just kept improving. Sometimes I do wonder how my life would have turned out if I had decided to not take a break from soccer that day. - kash_if 7. Manhattan 1998, was clearing trash from the curb along 3rd Ave. Stood upright just in time to not get my head knocked clean off by a bus traveling 40 mph. I can still remember the rush of wind and laughing out loud from shock. The only reason I can do this is because I still have my head. - dunkybones 8. Came across a website in early 2010 that said &quot;pay with bitcoin&quot; at the bottom. And I said to myself &quot;wtf is bitcoin?&quot; I googled it, bought a bunch, then sat back. I don&#39;t worry about money anymore. - meefozio 9. One day, I was feeling kind of low and sometimes I check around OkCupid for a self esteem boost. I happened to noticed this 98% match had visited my profile a few hours before. I checked him out and he was the male equivalent of me.  I sent him my best opening message, aka, &quot;Why the f*ck didn&#39;t you message your perfect match, you think you&#39;re too good for me or something?&quot; We talked for 4 months straight, day and night. Now I&#39;ve tricked him into marrying me. That was the luckiest thing that ever happened to me. - seethella 10. Luckiest thing that happened to me is that we discovered how sick my wife was before losing both her and my unborn son. Thankfully they pulled him out in an emergency C-section and he just celebrated his 7th birthday.  Mom is doing fantastic now as well, double organ recipient! Gearing up for an epic Christmas vacation in the Caribbean this year. - kortekickass 11. I broke my back and was told I&#39;d have a 3% chance to walk again. I&#39;m still walking. - skankinskier 12. I called a beer company&#39;s question &amp; comment line in hopes of getting a free shirt, they gave me an all expense paid trip to Las Vegas for me and 3 of my friends. - danbag213 13. I was in a foreign airport, running late, and just missed the damn train - like the sliding door slammed on my foot. Had to wait 10 minutes for the next one. Got chatting to a girl. Now married for 6 years. - hippocratical 14. Surviving what should have been a fatal car crash. Before that day I never wore my seat belt. Yes I was an idiot. I left work that day for some reason just out of nowhere, I decided to put it on.  10 minutes later, somebody blew a stop sign from a side street and I T-boned them gong about 45-50 mph. It felt like I hit a brick wall. The car was totaled and I most likely would not have lived had I not put my seat belt on. - slicebishybosh 15. Somebody knocked a glass bottle of snapple off the shelf and I had to go clean it up. I looked at the cap and it was a winner from their prize event. It was for a $500 gift card. - dpatt711 16. Two years ago I worked an 18 hour shift without eating. When I finally left I went to the grocery store across the street. Asked bakery girl for bread for sandwich, she makes me entire sandwich herself instead. Best ever. Marrying her in two weeks. Never would have met her without that long day. - catfapper 17.  A few years ago I had my credit card number stolen a few days before the card expired. It wasn&#39;t a card I used often and being an irresponsible university student at the time, I wasn&#39;t actually opening my statements every month (assuming the balance would stay at zero). As a result I actually didn&#39;t realize what had happened until 5 months later.  It turns out that the person who stole my number used the card to place a &euro;500 bet on a football game at 5-1 odds. Somehow the team they picked won, turning that &euro;500 into &euro;2500 which the betting site paid out by crediting back my card.  Before they could do anything to get at the money my card expired stopping whoever stole my number from charging anything else. I didn&#39;t have to spend money on food for nearly a year. - itchy118 18.  I had my car stolen when I was 19. A few months later I was driving my new car from Seattle to Portland at 3am, no other traffic around, and my stolen car passed me on my left. I followed the guy for about 120 miles back to Portland.  At one point he pulled beside me and waved at me, thinking we were road-rally pals! I returned a death stare. Followed him home, called the cops, and got my car back. When I think of what had to align for my car to find me again, it blows my mind. - HarryColonicJr 

Sometimes it feels as though all the stars align, the universe paved a path specifically for you, and karma and fate decided to team up for you to earn a win...  So, when a Reddit user asked, &quot;What&#39;s the luckiest thing that&#39;s...