Life works in mysterious ways, and sometimes we learn what was in store for us only after it happened. So Reddit user TheUncleAwesome07 asked people to share stories about the biggest bullets they have ever dodged. From total financial ruin to grave physical danger, their experiences show just how close we can come to disaster and still walk away (relatively) fine. Call it luck, intuition, or destiny, the important part is that nothing is lost until it is actually, truly lost.
#1
Driving to my girlfriend's parents place in Montana for Thanksgiving...
Crossing a mountain pass in my 1984 Toyota Tercel, it was a beautiful, sunny winter day, but coming around a bend I hit an ice patch and immediately started sliding off the road. It was next to a cliff, with no guardrail, and it was a slow-motion freak out. The car came to a stop just before going over. My girlfriend didn't even have room to get out on her side.
We slowly and carefully slid out my side and both got out safely, but then our previous freakout turned quickly into some real concern about what the hell we were going to do next, and how we were going to get out of there in the middle of nowhere. And, it was cold.
Not two minutes later a pickup truck with two guys in the cab and three in the bed came around the bend toward us. They pulled over in front of my car, and they all hopped out like a pit crew. One guy with a tow strap hooked it under the front axle, hooked it on the back of the truck and they pulled my car off the cliff and back onto the the shoulder of the highway.
I thanked them PROFUSELY, and asked them what in the hell they were doing out in the middle of nowhere like this. One guy said that "there wasn't much to do around here" and helping people on the highway was kind of a fun activity.
The entire event took a total of about ten minutes.
