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1. "I decided to support driving — astir apt saved my life. One night, I drove location from moving an evening displacement (like 2 miles), and erstwhile I glanced successful the rearview, I had chills erstwhile I saw the headlights down maine astatine a reddish light. I got to my location and was astir to park, but past heard a dependable successful my caput archer maine to support driving, truthful I did."
2. "Said yes to adopting a stray canine that followed maine home. 10-second 'sure wherefore not' infinitesimal — present he's my champion buddy for 8 years. Little decisions deed antithetic sometimes, haha."
3. "My best friend said she wanted to determination 2000+ miles crossed the state backmost to her location authorities and asked maine if I wanted to come. I didn’t deliberation and said, 'Yup, I’ll go.' We moved little than a twelvemonth afterwards, and I met my now-wife. Couldn’t beryllium happier."
4. "Fell overboard successful a achromatic h2o rafting incident. Stuck successful transportation acheronian underwater, nether a batch of rafts squeezed together. oxygen moving retired soon."
5. "During lockdown successful 2020, I decided to video telephone my member for a catch-up. He’d not agelong had a kid and was busy, I was expecting different kid successful aboriginal 2021, and beingness was hectic arsenic we were some backmost successful enactment astatine our respective jobs arsenic cardinal workers, nary furlough by then."
"I wouldn’t usually person video called him, tbh I would usually conscionable sprout him a text, but I felt similar it, and we made a java and had a bully aged chat arsenic we drank the java successful our respective houses. He died 2 days aboriginal successful an accident, and it was the past clip I spoke to him."
—TheInconsistentMoon
6. "I was astatine a stoplight from the off-ramp waiting to crook near astatine the light. It was 5:30 successful the morning, and past the airy turned greenish conscionable arsenic my woman called me. I stopped for a second, decided to reply it, and erstwhile I did, the car adjacent to maine connected the right, going left, got creamed by a semi truck."
"I usually spell close erstwhile the airy turns green, but due to the fact that my woman called maine and I had to halt and reply it earlier I went, she saved maine from getting deed connected the driver's broadside by a large rig."
—Twitchinat0r
7. "11 years ago, my person drunkenly asked maine to wed her. I said yes, and we've been happily joined for astir 9 years."
8. "Woke up and coughed up blood. Stood astatine the descend for a fewer seconds and decided not to hold and spell close to the ER to get it checked out. Bilateral PE with my full near enarthrosis clotted. If I went backmost to furniture and decided to spell later, determination would not person been a later."
9. "Stopped astatine a market store connected the mode location from college. I was pursuing a classmate location due to the fact that we instrumentality the aforesaid windy way to the highway. but thing wrong maine said, 'You should halt present and get XYZ.'"
"We were lone different 30 seconds from the freeway entrance, and I saw a large mishap arsenic I passed aft shopping. Turns retired my person got deed by a semi portion merging, and I would person been close down her if I hadn't stopped for groceries. No telling if I'd beryllium dormant too, but determination wasn't overmuch near of her. Spoke astatine her funeral, but inactive bittersweet to this day."
—Thediciplematt
10. "I decided not to get into an elevator with my ex and her caller boyfriend, truthful I took the stairs instead. On the 3rd flight, I recovered a discarded scratch-off summons that ended up being worthy $50,000. It's the lone clip successful my beingness wherever being socially awkward really paid disconnected my mortgage."
11. "When I was 14, I woke up and the archetypal thought successful my caput that greeting was 'it would beryllium truly chill to beryllium an speech student.' Walked into my parents' country to archer them, and started figuring it retired soon after. I was 15 erstwhile I did my speech year, and it changed maine profoundly. It shaped the remainder of my life, and I inactive gully connected lessons and self-reliance I learned that year."
12. "Volunteered to power seats connected a level with idiosyncratic (window passenger) who was allergic to the aisle passenger's pet, many, galore rows successful beforehand of me. Married the pistillate successful the mediate spot 8 years later. This twelvemonth is our 20th anniversary."
13. "Walked distant from a condo acquisition the nighttime earlier closing. Was speechmaking done the HOA gathering minutes astatine midnight and recovered buried notes astir a large peculiar appraisal coming. Felt insane backing retired truthful late, but thing didn't beryllium right. The gathering got deed with a $40K appraisal six months later. Best gut determination I ever made."
14. "I was astir to disregard a random invitation to a enactment due to the fact that I was bushed and didn't consciousness similar going out. (It was an invitation from my classmate, successful a assemblage that I joined similar a week ago). Stood determination for possibly 10 seconds, thinking, 'Eh... I'll conscionable enactment home.' Then I said, Screw it, I'll go, a bully accidental to marque immoderate caller friends successful the university. Met idiosyncratic that nighttime who changed my beingness successful the champion way. Today is our 5th anniversary, and we person been happily unneurotic ever since."
15. "Decided to get retired of my friend's packed car successful bid to springiness immoderate wealth to a stateless antheral lasting nearby. It was the play aft our archetypal twelvemonth of assemblage last exams, truthful each six of america were hellhole bent connected scoring weed and getting stoned. It was expected to beryllium a 30-minute drive, but we were already moving precocious for our gathering with the dealer. I'd already smoked a tiny associated with my friends, and erstwhile I saw a stateless antheral lasting connected the pavement adjacent our car, I felt this impulse to springiness him immoderate money."
16. "Deciding to locomotion backmost into the market store due to the fact that I had a weird feeling I'd near my straightener on. I hadn't, but portion I was inside, a monolithic multi-car pileup happened close successful the intersection I would person been sitting at. Those 10 seconds of paranoia astir apt saved my life."
17. "I flipped a coin to determine if I was going to discontinue my job. Heads. I quit. A person saw my lights connected that nighttime and stopped by to spot what I was doing. I told him what happened, and helium told maine it was large timing. They fto idiosyncratic spell astatine his occupation that day."
"He acceptable maine up with an interrogation for the adjacent day, and I was hired. There were lone 3 radical who worked there. I yet became the works manager and person been moving successful absorption ever since!"
—thadtheking
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