I'm 5'4" (162cm). I have to drive with the seat so close to the wheel that, if the airbag deploys, I'm at least getting a broken nose.

Holy f*ck that’s terrifying.

Job satisfaction is knowing you fitted the turn signal perfectly at the factory. Feeling unappreciated is realizing you work at BMW

I think it's called secondary drowning. It not something a lot of people are aware of.

It definitely does happen when you have a lot on your mind and you're trying to remember everything, or just get lost in thought and feel like you're running a routine errand you don't normally have your baby with you. I think the daycare worker is being smart. Doesn't hurt anyone to make yourself not forget. That makes you self-aware and caring about the little ones that are in your care. Why would anyone shame anyone for taking preventative actions?!

Mao did a few things that caused famine. Just look up "the Great Leap Forward, an attempt to improve production (I think of steel or iron?) C'mon, let's all build a smelter on our back yard! When leaders do stupid things lots of people die.

If you dive high enough, the water alone can cause serious injury upon impact. For a good split second it's like hitting a solid surface. I'm pretty adventurist and love thrills. One thing that's not on my bucket list is cliff diving. Does anyone check the depth and incline of the cliff before jumping off?

I don’t get why people don’t do this. It’s so easy and comes at no cost to you.

And eyes glued to a screen, probably with ear buds in.

I always look both ways, and around the cars that are stopped. For some reason drivers get impatient with this quick check through, cos I get HONKED at for not crossing quick enough. S'sOoOoOrRy for not risking my safety.

No one looks anymore, they just go. How can you not look to make sure that the driver of the 2 ton machine that can kill you, saw you before you step in front of it

This is why pedestrians don't have the right of way in some countries. People get stupid and walk out in front of cars and just expect them to stop. Mistakes happen. Every pedestrian killed (unalived) in the US had the right of way.

Stop, look and listen.

Check both ways even in a one way street. There may be someone driving the wrong way.

My elementary school classmate's son died when he was hit by a train while cutting his way across the tracks instead of using the underpass :( He had a hood over his head, headphones in his ears and his eyes on his cell phone. He didn't know about the train at all. His father, who came to pick him up, saw the whole thing. He tried to warn his son, but he didn't see or hear him :(

Or in a parking lot...people stroll around obvious of cars.

We live in a very small town with a college. There are students every year that are oblivious. They ride bikes and just turn in front of cars without looking. They'll cross the street against the light while walking. Many step off the curb anywhere on a street regardless of the cross walk a few yards away, and never look at the traffic.

I let a guy at Walmart walk right into me because he was too busy looking at his phone. He apologized, but I was like - you're an idiot. Watch where you're going. If you HAVE to check your phone, STOP, preferably out of the walkway.

Thin the herd

"Pedestrians have right of way!" The laws of physics don't care about the laws of society.

As someone who got hit by a car when they were ten, I never forget to look both ways now.

I drive a Prius and I had to quickly learn a whole different style of driving in residential areas and commercial streets. People don't hear the car, and instinctively presume they don't have to look. From the point of the view of the driver, it's like suddenly you're in The Happening or the Bird Box. People of all ages, all walks of life just suddenly leap out in front of you!

Cars do go the wrong way on one way streets.

Yep I did this once, on a road crossing I've crossed hundreds of times. I was excited to be going out for dinner with friends I tried to run across the road and only looked left, it was a close call with the taxi. I won't forget that

Why would you not look? Value life, not things (such as technology)

Heck, even my service dog has learned to look both ways before crossing the street/parking lot. She's not a guide dog for the blind, she's a mobility service dog.

I jaywalk a lot. Yes, it's illegal here. 😂

We lost a colleague due to this, stepped out in front of a scooter, and was killed.

It seems a waste of time to give this advice to people who fall off cliffs while taking selfies

I did this once. I was completely absent-minded I didn't notice I was in the middle of the road(it was green light for cars)until I heard cars blowing horns

Similarly, getting stranded in the Outback and leaving your car to find help and dying from thirst in the oppressive heat

If I remember correctly, he was a lawyer who had done this demonstration multiple times, thus weakening the frame.

Dang... I was hoping your were posting from the other side. I was going to ask you to tell my puppies there that I love them.

Just had a similar conversation about amusement rides tonight. Guy approached me in Wal-Mart to comment on my theme park hoodie. He works at the park; I worked there years ago. He goes "man, running rides is so easy, a monkey could do it." Sure, until you lean into that mentality, get careless and kill a kid. I had exactly one close call (not even out of carelessness, but it would have been Very Bad if I wasn't paying attention) and have been militant about ride safety ever since.

It means you're about to be hit by lightning. Run to shelter!

Need to make more dryers like the one I have, it won't start unless you clean the lint out everytime.

If someone has been stabbed with a knife or has another stabbing wound that has the item in PLEASE DONT PULL IT OUT!!!

I once had a coworker who told me she mixed bleach and ammonia. I told her that made a deadly gas and it shouldn't be done. She said they opened windows when they used it. She acted like I was crazy for thinking that was stupid.

He wasn’t just on his phone, he was flicking through a dating app. Didn’t notice the stopped traffic, it was horrendous..

Female heart attack survivor here... The chest pain I experienced was fairly mild and felt more like heartburn. I also felt lightheaded and really tired, and felt an overwhelming sense of impending doom. (Mine was a 90% blockage in the right coronary artery. Oddly, all my other arteries were absolutely clear.)

My mom's house burned dowcn from oily rags combusting.

Saw a weather reporter standing outside in a hurricane in Florida get hit in the head by a flying Stop sign. Pretty stupid way to get ratings!

As a cyclist I always stop when I notice a truck about to make a right turn even if I have the right of way, I’d rather be late than flat. I also stop if cars do the slowly rolling forward thing instead of stopping at a crossing: either stop or go on, don’t friggin’ roll at me!

Another ill-informed assumption. Very few medications actually react badly with alcohol, vanishingly few of them will do serious harm. Yes, there are some where the effects of alcohol can be increased, but the main reason that most meds (and particularly most antibiotics) carry an 'avoid alcohol' warning is that a person drinking too much might vomit or forget to take it. Source:pharmacologist.

And not RESPECTING the weather. Mother Nature is one fierce lady.

What, being a former paramedic ends lives? That's crazy!

There was a news story last year about a guy who thought it would be a good idea to brandish a handgun during his (frequent) attacks of road rage. He thought it was funny to make the occupants of the other think that were about to die. One day he followed a driver that had pissed him off somehow, and pulled his gun out as he was getting out of his car. The other driver had a gun too. Mr. road rage was shot and killed. Guess what country this happened in?

I have never seen a CO detector anywhere in my nation.

Seriously, don't be embarrassed to get things checked out. Health care professionals have a whole other level of what is weird or gross. Don't believe me? Google weird things doctors have had to pull out of people's bums. Whole other level.

I always had another nurse check dose and type of insulin before giving, ALWAYS

The Wikipedia entry claims there were 2 underinflated tyres when the aircraft departed. There's no mention of air being used in lieu of nitrogen: "Prior to departure, the lead mechanic had noticed that the "No. 2 and No. 4 tyre pressures were below the minimum for flight dispatch",[7] and attempted to inflate them, but no nitrogen gas was readily available. The project manager, unwilling to accept a delay, disregarded the problem and readied the aircraft for dispatch.[5] As the aircraft was taxiing, the transfer of the load from the underinflated No. 2 tire to the No. 1 tire on the same portside axle resulted "in overdeflection, overheating, and structural weakening of the No. 1 tire".[7] "The No. 1 tire failed very early on the take-off roll," followed almost immediately by the No. 2.[7] The latter stopped rotating "for reasons not established", and the subsequent friction of the wheel assembly with the runway generated sufficient heat to start a self-sustaining fire"

My grandfather once broke an arm slipping on ice, but he saved the pizza.