Have you ever thought you were REALLY going to die?

Sorry featherweight, you couldn't die from weed if you wanted to.

Now thats the drugs that can kill you. Dude, you must have been high throughout the 90s! Probably didn't come down until extacsy made a comeback in 2000, lol.

How are you not dead?!?

Sorry for quoting a lot of these. There are so many interesting stories in this thread. I stopped reading the driving stories, makes me not want to drive ever again. Everything else has been top notch. Loved the story with the little girl asking to hold her hand if he was scared.

 

Yes. Car accident in Sicily.

Four of us who worked in the same duty section (military) were off duty. One rents a nice car (Audi; niiiiiice). We all jump in and leave the base at about 4:30. We're now stuck in some mid-slow traffic of mostly Italians who work on the base, heading home (most schedules of base workers were 7:30-4:00).

I'm sitting in the back. The other two guys are razzing Sid (driver of the car he had rented) that such a luxury car shouldn't "jerk" so much when you drive it; did you get your drivers license from a box of Cracker Jacks?

So Sid suddenly decides to pull the Italian maneuver of inventing a lane where none existed by passing the long line of cars but sticking close to the middle of the two-lane highway so that oncoming traffic can flow. Problem is, he's hauling a$$, and he comes around a turn while trying to slip between two cars. He doesn't adjust for speed, WWWWHHHAAAAMMMM into the guardrail. He overcorrects to the left. Now we're looking at an oncoming truck. He overcorrects to the right. WHAM into the guardrail again. We're sliding sideways, very fast, then I hear someone yell, "We're going over!" The car turned onto its top and came to a rest.

Surprisingly, other than soreness from all the violent changes of speed, no injuries to anyone. But if that oncoming truck had been just a little closer....

 

That reminds me of another one- During the marathon 18-inning Astros playoff game a couple years ago I was eating some roast and bit off a big piece and swallowed it too soon. It was caught in my throat and I couldn't breathe at all. My wife was super pregnant and sitting next to me on the couch. I was choking and gasping for air and she started freaking out (bad under pressure) and asking me what was wrong. I was pointing at my throat and making heimlich maneuver motions to my stomach because she couldn't figure it out. I remember kind of laughing in my head and thinking I was going to die, and that it was a funny way to go because my dumbass wife couldn't figure out that I was choking, and even if she did I wasn't sure if she could do the heimlich because she was so pregnant. She did figure it out and saved my life. It was kind of a non-event because I didn't make a big deal about it, but I certainly would have died if I was alone.