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this was either high school or shortly after.
part 1
had just met some friends at a local shopping center, getting ready to take them for a ride to show off my new subwoofers, was already playing my music kind of loud. car pulls up, 4 people inside. the driver is roughly our age, he yells something i can't understand and spits on my hood. i turn down the music, he yells "follow me". i looked to my pals as to ask, do you feel like a rumble? they all got in, and we followed the car to a side street.
they parked, and i parked about 10-15 yards behind them. as soon as i parked, 2 guys w bandanas over their faces got out the back seat, both brandishing pistols. they were in a hurry to get to my car. i put it in reverse and got the hell out of there. they didn't fire any shots. nobody got hurt.
all we wanted was a good ol' fashioned 4 on 4 rumble.

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Was that in LA, LOS?

Turkish dude in a bar in Dortmund, 1981.

"<something unintelligible because of the music>"

Me: "What?"

Turkish dude points to the door.

I shrug, and say "OK"

Walk out, turn around, must have been about 20 dudes and him. My four friends bravely turn up to back me up, I say "I got this"

SMACK! Left eyebrow split with a headbutt. He smiles, SMACK! Right eyebrow split with a headbutt. Blood streaming down my face, not feeling like it's going too well. He punches me in the stomach, I fold and then straighten up. It's then I notice his boys are all holding up knives and I think "I'm going to ****ing die"

He pats me on the cheek and says "You should run now" or something like that and they must have chased us for about a mile.

Then there have been a couple of vehicular close calls but mostly my fault.

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I'm kinda lame. I've never been in a girlfight or had a gun or a knife pulled on me or anything.

I guess I'll have to live vicariously through you all.

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that's crazy rr,

no, i didn't move here until this year. that happened in maryland.

rave, it could be anything like a near accident or getting separated from a parent as a child.

drave you need to start a word of the day thread!!

Went to Canada for Christmas break with 8 friends in two Tercels when I was 19. Weather was great so we stayed an extra week. then had to drive back in a blizzard. coming through the PA mountains I hit a thick snow patch and started to spin out, as I saw the tiny pinpoints of a town some distance down the.mountain and the front of my tercel hitting the light wire fence I felt my tires grab and got control of the car. To this day I have that mental image clearly etched I. my mind.

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I guess one would have to be when I was driving to work, about 5 minutes from my house... Light turns green, I'm about to go and a car blows through the redlight going at least 50 mph in a 25-30mph zone. Car would've slammed me on the drivers side.

Another would be around 10pm, my car got shot up right outside of my house.. 2 bullet holes, one behind the rear drivers side door and one through the driver's side door. I was lucky to be off from work that day because 10pm was right around the time I got home. Had I of worked that day, I would've taken a bullet.

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crazy stuff.

glad everyone is ok! who will be next to share?

While in college, driving 495 towards college park. Guy starts tailgating me. I'm going 75 and this guy came up on me like I am standing still. He gets up behind me so close that I can't see his headlights. I tap my brakes to get him off my ass and then move over when I can to let him go on his merry way. When I move over, he pulls up next to me and starts gesturing towards my car. I roll down my window thinking he is telling me something is wrong with my car. He starts shouting he is a cop and that I need to pull over. The guy is driving a BMW so I shout back "Oh yeah? If you're a cop show me your badge!" He laughs and says "I'll show you my badge". He brings his hand up and has a gun pointed right at my face. I can still see the open barrel of that f'er.

I hit the brakes and he started tailing me down 495 laughing at whenever he caught up. This pissed me off and I started shouting at that he was going down. I see a cop who was in the process of giving someone a speeding ticket and pull over. She takes off after him. The cops caught him and I testified against him.
Turns out I was one of many. The guy was wanted for assault with a deadly weapon, attempted murder and for shooting at the police. He went away for a long time.

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Damn Joe, that's amazing. In a horribly bad yet good way.

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[quote=los panda;966377]this was either high school or shortly after.
part 1
had just met some friends at a local shopping center, getting ready to take them for a ride to show off my new subwoofers, was already playing my music kind of loud. car pulls up, 4 people inside. the driver is roughly our age, he yells something i can't understand and spits on my hood. i turn down the music, he yells "follow me". i looked to my pals as to ask, do you feel like a rumble? they all got in, and we followed the car to a side street.
they parked, and i parked about 10-15 yards behind them. as soon as i parked, 2 guys w bandanas over their faces got out the back seat, both brandishing pistols. they were in a hurry to get to my car. i put it in reverse and got the hell out of there. they didn't fire any shots. nobody got hurt.
all we wanted was a good ol' fashioned 4 on 4 rumble.[/quote]

Had almost the exact same scenario happen to me at the jumpers hole movie theater in pasadena also while in high school. Only difference was we were smoking a joint.

of a different sort. my firstborn son was born a month early and his first APGAR score was excellent but he quickly nose dived and his second APGAR score was the worst. He was rushed to the neo-natal intensive care as his lungs weren't expanding and for three weeks showed no improvement. Then on a Saturday night sitting watching over him the doctor told me that it was highly likely that he wouldn't make it to Sunday night. That counts as the scary part. read the rest for a pretty cool ending.



I cried a lot that night, went to my church in the morning and our pastor said special prayers, I later found out my parents church stopped their service at the same time and said prayers as well. After church I went back to the hospital and the doctor said that his lungs had stabilized within the past hour. I had never (and never since) ever experienced such an overwhelming awe as that moment and when my mom told me about how her pastor just felt the need to stop their service and pray. Mind you, that I was in Colorado Springs, and my parents were in Md, and we werent using cell phones/facebook internet in 1997. He is 15 now and runs a 21 min 5k.

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1998 new years eve traveling to NYC for a Phish show 4 inchs of snow on the ground travaling 95 north. Went over a bridge going 55-60 mph Chevy Blazer right by Kings Dominion....the rear end slide slow around where my driver side window was facing north up 95. I didnt do anything and the SUV came to almost a stop. Thank god there was no traffic. I had mushrooms and herbals on my too but wasnt under the influence.

After a night of partying in "the bottom" of Richmond went to our car where a guy was yelling scream at some people 1 car over where we parked. As we got in Ill never forget seeing the mussel flashes light up my friends face as this dude was release a pistol into the ground and then the sky. Think that was 97-98

I got robbed in "the Fan" in Richmond by a group of teenagers bout 6-7 years ago, but never was really scared. Happened so fast and I was a little lit.

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Never experienced this first hand but if I did I'm pretty sure this was jump straight to the top of the list.
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[quote=CRedskinsRule;966415]of a different sort. my firstborn son was born a month early and his first APGAR score was excellent but he quickly nose dived and his second APGAR score was the worst. He was rushed to the neo-natal intensive care as his lungs weren't expanding and for three weeks showed no improvement. Then on a Saturday night sitting watching over him the doctor told me that it was highly likely that he wouldn't make it to Sunday night. That counts as the scary part. read the rest for a pretty cool ending.



I cried a lot that night, went to my church in the morning and our pastor said special prayers, I later found out my parents church stopped their service at the same time and said prayers as well. After church I went back to the hospital and the doctor said that his lungs had stabilized within the past hour. I had never (and never since) ever experienced such an overwhelming awe as that moment and when my mom told me about how her pastor just felt the need to stop their service and pray. Mind you, that I was in Colorado Springs, and my parents were in Md, and we werent using cell phones/facebook internet in 1997. He is 15 now and runs a 21 min 5k.[/quote]

Cool story

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[quote=CRedskinsRule;966415]of a different sort. my firstborn son was born a month early and his first APGAR score was excellent but he quickly nose dived and his second APGAR score was the worst. He was rushed to the neo-natal intensive care as his lungs weren't expanding and for three weeks showed no improvement. Then on a Saturday night sitting watching over him the doctor told me that it was highly likely that he wouldn't make it to Sunday night. That counts as the scary part. read the rest for a pretty cool ending.



I cried a lot that night, went to my church in the morning and our pastor said special prayers, I later found out my parents church stopped their service at the same time and said prayers as well. After church I went back to the hospital and the doctor said that his lungs had stabilized within the past hour. I had never (and never since) ever experienced such an overwhelming awe as that moment and when my mom told me about how her pastor just felt the need to stop their service and pray. Mind you, that I was in Colorado Springs, and my parents were in Md, and we werent using cell phones/facebook internet in 1997. He is 15 now and runs a 21 min 5k.[/quote]Wow, I'm sure that was terrifying, but I'm glad he's doing so well now!
This hits pretty close to home for me because both of my older sister's daughters were preemies, and so was my younger sister's son. My older older sister's first pregnancy was considered very high risk because she has hypertension, and she ended up having to reliever 10 weeks early. My niece was 2.5lbs when she was born, but now she's a lanky 4 year old with the biggest personality.

My second niece's birth might have been scarier though, because the day she was born (5 weeks early) happened to be the same day my Mom had her first round of chemo for lymphoma. My family is extremely close, so having my older sister in one hospital having her daughter early while my mom was at another hospital getting chemo made me feel so hopeless and scared. Thankfully, appropriate for today, everyone is doing really great today.

[QUOTE=Chico23231;966422]1998 new years eve traveling to NYC for a Phish show 4 inchs of snow on the ground travaling 95 north. Went over a bridge going 55-60 mph Chevy Blazer right by Kings Dominion....the rear end slide slow around where my driver side window was facing north up 95. I didnt do anything and the SUV came to almost a stop. Thank god there was no traffic. I had mushrooms and herbals on my too but wasnt under the influence.

After a night of partying in "the bottom" of Richmond went to our car where a guy was yelling scream at some people 1 car over where we parked. As we got in Ill never forget seeing the mussel flashes light up my friends face as this dude was release a pistol into the ground and then the sky. Think that was 97-98

I got robbed in "the Fan" in Richmond by a group of teenagers bout 6-7 years ago, but never was really scared. Happened so fast and I was a little lit.[/QUOTE]

Did they play fee?
:)
Edit: my nickname was going to be "punch you in the eye"

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Some really good stories in here, thanks for sharing. I guess I've been lucky so far, the most scared I can ever remember was when me and a couple friends went snowboarding in WV a couple years ago. We had never been out in WV before so we didn't know what the drive would be like, and my brilliant plan at the time was to hit the road right after I got off work at 5 pm, when it would be getting dark already.

So we hit the road, we were following the gps as soon as we got off 81 (highway to southwest VA), and as soon as we got in WV it was pitch dark mountain roads until we got to the hotel. Eventually we got to a point where we were about 30 miles from the place, and my gps told me to take a turn down a road called Highway 19. As soon as we turned onto this road, we noticed it was a gravel road covered with ice and snow. That was our first warning something was off. I checked the alternate route to see if there was a better way, but it said we either go 5 miles on Highway 19, or go 40 miles around the mountain. Well, I decided as long as I kept my foot steady on the gas, we'd be able to make it (note, I was driving a Corolla at the time, not the best ride for going over snow/ice covered roads), so we pushed on. About half a mile in we noticed this gravel road was only wide enough for one car, and it was about 10:30 at night so we couldn't see anything, but we kept going anyways, because the road was so narrow there was no room to turn the car around. About 3 miles in on this road, we were going up some really steep terrain, and we were high enough on this mountain I could look out my window and see the tops of trees about 20 feet down, so I knew if we slipped off this icy gravel road for any reason we'd probably be seriously injured, and yet I kept going.

Well, not long after, my car lost traction and slid into a small snowbank. I pulled the e-brake, collected myself, asked my friends if they were ok, and then I opened the door and noticed my left front tire was about a foot away from the edge of the cliff. We got out really carefully, we dug the tires out of the snow, and since there was no room to turn around I had to drive my car in reverse about 2 miles back down the mountain until the road got wide enough to turn the car around. And then we took the long route around the mountain. Definitely a bad decision on my part to take the shorter, unsafe route.

My scariest moment happened about a month ago. My daughter is six years old. About two years ago she was sitting in the living room playing and walks over to me and says "rite here hurts". She was pointing at her heart. Me and my wife started asking her questions like "is it a sharp pain"? Yes. Is it a dull pain - yes. You know how kids are. So it was after doctors hours and we took her to the er. They did some quick tests and chalked it up as indigestion. We followed up with the ped next day and he confirmed. Give her half a tums. Lay off the dairy. Ok. So over the past couple years there have been a few more - half tums - feels better. Than last month - late again in the day - she tells me it hurts. This time was different - she was crying. So we go back to the er. They check her vitals which are good - and want to do an ekg. Ok. Wait about an hour for the results. Doc comes in and i stand up like "ok where do i sign - see ya later". I heard the doc say blah blah blah _ enlarged left ventricle - could be normal for kids - blah blah blah - gonna do an x-ray to see if she has an enlarged heart! I looked at my wife who was in shock as was i. Enlarged heart is not a good scenario in any way. Carried my daughter down to the x-ray room and than waited an hour for THOSE results. Longest hour of my life. Scariest hour of my life. X-rays were good. They wrote up some report about a gas pocket in her ribcage. Not fart gas either. Told us go home and see cardiologist when we can get in. Next day we call ped and he goes "i cant believe they sent u home with that take her to jersey shore hospital rite away! Here we go again. Very scared waiting to see those doctors. More tests - all good. Cardiologist two days later- all good. Very thankful today.

[QUOTE=CRedskinsRule;966415]of a different sort. my firstborn son was born a month early and his first APGAR score was excellent but he quickly nose dived and his second APGAR score was the worst. He was rushed to the neo-natal intensive care as his lungs weren't expanding and for three weeks showed no improvement. Then on a Saturday night sitting watching over him the doctor told me that it was highly likely that he wouldn't make it to Sunday night. That counts as the scary part. read the rest for a pretty cool ending.



I cried a lot that night, went to my church in the morning and our pastor said special prayers, I later found out my parents church stopped their service at the same time and said prayers as well. After church I went back to the hospital and the doctor said that his lungs had stabilized within the past hour. I had never (and never since) ever experienced such an overwhelming awe as that moment and when my mom told me about how her pastor just felt the need to stop their service and pray. Mind you, that I was in Colorado Springs, and my parents were in Md, and we werent using cell phones/facebook internet in 1997. He is 15 now and runs a 21 min 5k.[/QUOTE]

God Bless. Nothing more important than our children.

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I thought I caught the herp a few years ago.
The two week wait for the results were the longest of my life. fortunately I was/am clean!
John Legend has some nasty groupies...

[QUOTE=jamf;967158]I thought I caught the herp a few years ago.
The two week wait for the results were the longest of my life. fortunately I was/am clean!
John Legend has some nasty groupies...[/QUOTE]

Lol

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[quote=RedskinMike;966411]Had almost the exact same scenario happen to me at the jumpers hole movie theater in pasadena also while in high school. Only difference was we were smoking a joint.[/quote]this wasn't really scary but i was waiting outside a movie theater in columbia, waiting to get picked up by parents (probably 15 years old or so) after the movie. was w a group of friends, some guy in another group started talking shit, i turned around to look for a second, gave a look like "not interested" and turned back towards my friends. a couple seconds later i got "shoved" and, w the momentum, headbutted my good friend in his nose. when i turned around, one of my female friends slapped him in the face and he took a swing at her. i lifted her out of the way and went in for the kill.
he and his friends turned and ran.
it turns out he didn't shove me, but threw a haymaker into the back of my head.

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Just remembered one that probably should have scared me more but didn't for some reason.

In college, I was getting ready to cross the street to class. I was a bit distracted b/c I had an exam or something. Saw on coming traffic and distractedly realized "oops, need to stop" at the last second. I tripped over my own feet stumbled into the traffic lane and fell to the ground. I hear screeching and feel the tire on the back of my head as it stops. The tire hit my head just as it was stopping, the last inch or so of wheel turn caused my head to got tight to the pavement.

Guy who hit me was sure I was dead - so were the two or three bystanders. I, on the other hand was like, "man, I need to get to class - sorry for falling in front of your car." I grabbed my stuff and was on my way in about a minute.

As a kicker, it happened on the day John Belushi died.

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[quote=punch it in;966496]Did they play fee?
:)
Edit: my nickname was going to be "punch you in the eye"[/quote]

great show, another part to that story was i got pulled into Madison Square Garden security office getting into the show because they thought me and my buddy's ticket were fake. Of course those shrooms had been eating by then. We made it into the show somehow.


Mooby that story sucks. Of course it could have been worse, frozen deliverence style.

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This probably ranks as one of the scariest moments in these people's lives

[url=http://www.liveleak.com/view?i=f47_1353943384]LiveLeak.com - Extremely Scary Ghost Elevator Prank in Brazil[/url]

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[quote=SmootSmack;967938]This probably ranks as one of the scariest moments in these people's lives

[url=http://www.liveleak.com/view?i=f47_1353943384]LiveLeak.com - Extremely Scary Ghost Elevator Prank in Brazil[/url][/quote]i may have had a heart attack

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[quote=JoeRedskin;967908]Just remembered one that probably should have scared me more but didn't for some reason.

In college, I was getting ready to cross the street to class. I was a bit distracted b/c I had an exam or something. Saw on coming traffic and distractedly realized "oops, need to stop" at the last second. I tripped over my own feet stumbled into the traffic lane and fell to the ground. I hear screeching and feel the tire on the back of my head as it stops. The tire hit my head just as it was stopping, the last inch or so of wheel turn caused my head to got tight to the pavement.

Guy who hit me was sure I was dead - so were the two or three bystanders. I, on the other hand was like, "man, I need to get to class - sorry for falling in front of your car." I grabbed my stuff and was on my way in about a minute.

As a kicker, it happened on the day John Belushi died.[/quote]

Death took Bluto instead of you. Crazy.

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[quote=JoeRedskin;967908]Just remembered one that probably should have scared me more but didn't for some reason.

In college, I was getting ready to cross the street to class. I was a bit distracted b/c I had an exam or something. Saw on coming traffic and distractedly realized "oops, need to stop" at the last second. I tripped over my own feet stumbled into the traffic lane and fell to the ground. I hear screeching and feel the tire on the back of my head as it stops. The tire hit my head just as it was stopping, the last inch or so of wheel turn caused my head to got tight to the pavement.

Guy who hit me was sure I was dead - so were the two or three bystanders. I, on the other hand was like, "man, I need to get to class - sorry for falling in front of your car." I grabbed my stuff and was on my way in about a minute.

As a kicker, it happened on the day John Belushi died.[/quote]

That is insane.

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[quote=los panda;966377]this was either high school or shortly after.
part 1
had just met some friends at a local shopping center, getting ready to take them for a ride to show off my new subwoofers, was already playing my music kind of loud. car pulls up, 4 people inside. the driver is roughly our age, he yells something i can't understand and spits on my hood. i turn down the music, he yells "follow me". i looked to my pals as to ask, do you feel like a rumble? they all got in, and we followed the car to a side street.
they parked, and i parked about 10-15 yards behind them. as soon as i parked, 2 guys w bandanas over their faces got out the back seat, both brandishing pistols. they were in a hurry to get to my car. i put it in reverse and got the hell out of there. they didn't fire any shots. nobody got hurt.
all we wanted was a good ol' fashioned 4 on 4 rumble.[/quote]

W...T...F. Why would you follow a group of banditos?

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[quote=CRedskinsRule;966415]of a different sort. my firstborn son was born a month early and his first APGAR score was excellent but he quickly nose dived and his second APGAR score was the worst. He was rushed to the neo-natal intensive care as his lungs weren't expanding and for three weeks showed no improvement. Then on a Saturday night sitting watching over him the doctor told me that it was highly likely that he wouldn't make it to Sunday night. That counts as the scary part. read the rest for a pretty cool ending.



I cried a lot that night, went to my church in the morning and our pastor said special prayers, I later found out my parents church stopped their service at the same time and said prayers as well. After church I went back to the hospital and the doctor said that his lungs had stabilized within the past hour. I had never (and never since) ever experienced such an overwhelming awe as that moment and when my mom told me about how her pastor just felt the need to stop their service and pray. Mind you, that I was in Colorado Springs, and my parents were in Md, and we werent using cell phones/facebook internet in 1997. He is 15 now and runs a 21 min 5k.[/quote]

Maybe the best story (I mean real life stuff) ever told on TWP...

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[quote=The Goat;967960]W...T...F. Why would you follow a group of banditos?[/quote]i know, it was stupid. like i said, we were expecting a good old fashioned skin rumble, and that would have been stupid, also.

we had never seen or even heard of anyone packing in our area. the thought never crossed my mind, live and learn.

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Nothing can compare to concern over a sick child, but I thought I was gonna be murdered in Poland in 1998.

Was living in Germany at the time. Went to Poland with a friend (Warsaw and Krakow are fantastic btw) and ended up in some hick countryside town. There were four of us, two smoking hot Polish women from Warsaw and us two dudes. Anyway the World Cup was going on in France then and anyone suspected as an Englishman or American was a target. A Pole about my size came across the bar and took a drunken swing, which I ducked under, but that got the whole bars attention and several big peasant looking Poles started my way. Not gonna lie, I left the girls, jumped a fence and tucked tail. Rural Poland is basically the wild west from what I could tell. Bombed out buildings and vehicles (from WWII) and basically no law.

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[quote=The Goat;967961]Maybe the best story (I mean real life stuff) ever told on TWP...[/quote]

You haven't seen jsarno's, "I broke up a family" story in his old thread..

CRed's is definitely up there though.

One time at band camp.....

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[quote=DynamiteRave;967965]You haven't seen jsarno's, "I broke up a family" story in his old thread..

CRed's is definitely up there though.[/quote]

omg I vaguely remember...

[QUOTE=Chico23231;967911]great show, another part to that story was i got pulled into Madison Square Garden security office getting into the show because they thought me and my buddy's ticket were fake. Of course those shrooms had been eating by then. We made it into the show somehow.


Mooby that story sucks. Of course it could have been worse, frozen deliverence style.[/QUOTE]

Classic. We need to start a phish/ grateful dead thread. I have so many crazy stories. :)

[quote=mredskins;967983]one time at band camp.....[/quote]

lmao!!!!'

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The day my daughter was born. She couldn't breathe on her own right away. Nothing scarier than NOT hearing your baby cry when she comes out...then on oxygen for a day.

She came out and is perfect now thankfully.

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[quote=DynamiteRave;967953]Death took Bluto instead of you. Crazy.[/quote]I just damn near wet myself laughing at this.

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Scariest day of my wife's life. A couple weeks ago, I got up in the middle of the night to go to the bathroom. I started feeling dizzy and sick. The next thing I remember, I was waking up in the floor in front of the bathroom with my wife, frantic, over me screaming and crying. I didn't know what happened, but I knew my head was killing me, I was bleeding over my right eye, both eyes were swollen shut, and I was freezing to death. She called 9-1-1- and took me to the ER. I didn't realize that I had blacked out twice in the bathroom, hitting my head the second time and leaving a baseball size goose egg on the back of my head. Suffered a nice mild concussion which kept me out of work and off the road for a couple of weeks. Still having some symptoms from it although I'm feeling better. It's scary when you can't stand on your own, having major headaches, and not able to concentrate or speak in coherent sentences (and it not being from alcohol, lol!)

But, I can also back up to about 1995. My friends and I used to hang out in a Pizza Hut parking lot every weekend. This street gang came up to us and started causing trouble. I was the smallest one there, so they surrounded me and started talking smack to me. I did notice they all had guns in the back of their pants, so I didn't know if I was just going to get beaten to death or shot or both. By the grace of God, I got up enough courage to walk away, got into my car, and left. Very surprised they let me go. A couple weeks later, they all got arrested across the street and we never had to deal with them again.