Are you, "Lucky to be alive"?

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The closest I've been to dying was having a burst appendix at the age of three. I'm still here. There must be loads of you out there who have had close scrapes with the Grim Reaper........

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guru_1071 said:

yep, extra 7 years and 7 days for me.....

Blimey. No wonder you count each day!

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Jasandjules said:

I hit my head on exit of the plane once.



Now that's not bad you say, just laugh with the stewardess. Except I was parachuting..........

Very twisted lines which took me too close to another chap.

But I think it was pretty well away from being lucky to be alive.

That's your own fault. Jumping out of an aeroplane by your own volition. You lunatic!

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Fishtigua said:

Working on offshore fishing boats, scuba diving in far flung corners of the planet, riding big bikes around on dirt roads, messing around on horses and general stupidity on boats or being caught in the middle of the odd civil war, I think I've had my fair share of very close calls.

I once asked an insurance company about global health/life policies, they almost laughed.

I'd imagine that any passenger on a yacht crewed by you would count themselves lucky to be alive when they reached port.

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Lucky that telegraph pole was there to stop the car rolling down the hill.

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Council Baby said:

drivin_me_nuts said:

paging council baby!

You called

Yep, I shouldn't really be here, the news said I was dead, I'm just stupid and didn't realise it

Well? Not all of us follow your blog, you know!

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IanMorewood said:

I would guess most folks over the age of say 20 have had at least one scrape with death, be it an accident, infection .....

What's yours?

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Laurel Green said:

My parents, on a whim, decided to go out for the evening - they returned to find a bomb-crater where their house used to be. Needless to say, this was before I was born; lucky, lucky me.

Bomb making can be a risky business.

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Zoobeef said:

Proper heroic stuff.

That's as may be. But, I had a dicky appendix!!!!

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I know That junction well. I grew up in Southgate.

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A genuinely exciting tale.

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Baz Tench said:

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A genuinely exciting tale.

I think I'm too council to fully understand much of that.

AIUI, Schmalex was driving a sail boat at night with the headlights off. It was going pretty quickly (for a boat) . One time, it fell off of the top of a wave and another sail boat happened to be at the bottom. So, he did a handbrake turn and the boat fell over. Everyone got wet. Schmalex called the other sailor men to help him get the boat to stand up straight and then they all drove home for tea and cakes.

HTH.