It was around 1:30am a couple months back. I was laying in bed, struggling to sleep. My husband had already passed out next to me an hour or so earlier. I put my phone on the charging dock on my bedside table (ringer off) so it wouldn’t distract me anymore - but I couldn’t bring myself to look away from it. I got a weird feeling in my gut, like there was something I was supposed to do but I didn’t know what.


I’m laying there looking at my phone’s locked screen when it lights up - my sister is calling! Only thing is, it’s 1:30am. My sister is a nursing student and goes to bed at like 9pm. I grab it and answer.


It’s not my sister. A girl’s voice I don’t recognize asks me, “Hey, is this ____’s sister?” I respond yes, and she goes on to tell me my sister’s been roofied at the bar they’re at together, she can’t drive, my sister refused an ambulance and she’s now showing OD symptoms.


I shake my husband awake (I’m 5’2 110lbs I cannot lift another adult human) and we’re in the car speeding another town over so I can get my sister. The whole time I am thinking ‘what would have happened if I had gone to sleep?’ I’d never been so thankful for insomnia.


Sister is fine - she had severely low blood pressure, body spasms, paralysis, vomiting - the works. Stayed with her for the weekend to make sure she was okay (physically yes, mentally no).

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I’m a nurse. I was relatively new at the time of this.

I had a patient (50s, female) who was in for an NSTEMI (heart attack, but not the type of heart attack everybody pictures). She’s been straight chillin all day, she’s waiting for an inpatient bed, we’ve gotten her aspirin, she’s got a heparin drip going, we’ve got PRN nitro for chest pain… patient calls me in to let me know that her chest pain has returned, 5/10 pain, and she would like some nitro. I say sure no problem, I go get her nitro, give it to her. Patient seems fine: no obvious distress, no change in her vital signs, talking and joking with me and her husband.

Something in me was pushing me to grab a new EKG even though she’d had one not that long ago and she was on the telemetry monitor. I go grab the EKG machine just to be extra thorough… big fat STEMI. Big ol heart attack. Rushed her to the cath lab and she ended up getting several stents placed, but she pulled through.

It was the first time as a nurse I felt personally responsible for saving a life (obvs the cath lab team did more than I did lol), and it’s because I just wanted to be extra precautionary. Now I always get an EKG with any kind of change in chest pain.

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iv had a ton of "mini" heart attacks{? Drs words so idk} without me or others knowing, only people realize it after a lot of tests, they say I have about one "mini" heart attack every week to 2 weeks..... i don't feel them but i know I get very tired and sore after them

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My husband insisted on buying a wet/dry shop vac when we bought our house. I was skeptical, but I didn't argue too hard against getting one. We had towels and don't do any kind of building, but if he really wanted one, I decided to just let him be excited about it and not rain on his parade.

That damn wet/dry vac has saved our butts twice in the last year that we've been here. Once (the second time), he used it to clean up after he replaced a part on the bathroom sink. But the first time, he was washing dishes and, somehow, the whole damn drain pipe fell out. Dumped an entire sink full of dirty water all over the cabinets and the floor. I hear "Oh my god!" and "I got this!" By the time I walked into the kitchen, he had gotten the wet/dry vac out of the laundry room, and less than 5 minutes later there wasn't a drop of water on the floor.

He was nice enough not to say "I told you so"

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I was never one to want the aisle seat at the movies, but for some reason, I wanted it that night.

My friends and I were in college, and on a snowy night, we went to the movies.

For whatever reason that night I decided I wanted the aisle seat.

Halfway through the movie. I see a light behind the screen that made the side of the screen not show up well. I few seconds later, there were flames. No one noticed. I couldn't believe it. I whispered to my roommates that we needed to go, and there was a fire. 5 or six of us got up and left.

No alarms were going off. The screen was clearly on fire, and still no one noticed. We got up to the top of the stairs, and everyone was watching the movie. Right as we were exiting, I yelled into the theater, "The screen's on fire! You need to leave!"

We had to go downstairs to the lobby. We were ahead of everyone else because everyone else had to gather their hats, mittens, and coats. The lobby was empty of customers, and all the concession stand workers were sweeping and making popcorn. Still, no alarms were going off.

I yelled down to the people at the concession stand, "There's a fire in the theatre 6!" They don't react. I yelled down as we were rapidly going down the stairs. They had no idea what I was talking about. I finally had to go right up to the concession stand and say "there is a FIRE in the theater!" They yelled back to me "there's a fire in the theater?!"

"YES! That's what I've been trying to tell you!"

I don't know if I would have noticed the fire and gotten out as safely if I hadn't been sitting on the aisle seat that night.

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No fire alarm call point there? Old celluloid film was hugely flammable so a cinema without one would be breaking fire regulations.

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Bottled water. I had mentioned to my mum that we should get a few bottles of water to keep just in case we needed it. About a week afterwards we had a nasty storm and they had to shut off our water for a few days. The supermarkets all nearby ran out of bottled water from people caught unprepared.

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My son was extremely colicky. He would only sleep ON me so we spent the first six months of his life sleeping on the chaise part of the couch.

This one evening, we were laying on the area rug (it was super soft and plush) and he fell asleep. I was stoked!! I could sleep again in my bed!!

However, I just didn’t feel right leaving him there. I carefully moved him to his bed, and it took a while but he eventually got back to sleep.

The next morning, I was awakened by my dog barking at me. One thing to note, this dog NEVER barked in the house. If he wanted to wake me up, he’d jump into my bed and do it that way.

When I got up to let him out, the carpet was soaked. I was pissed because I thought the dog peed (he was housebroken) in my bedroom. Turns out, we had a pipe burst and the entire house had a minimum of 2” of water throughout.

I shudder to think about what could have happened if I had left my son on the area rug. It’s something I had never done before and wouldn’t think was the acceptable thing to do but I was so sleep deprived.

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We were having our pipes replaced in the front yard. Before leaving for work, my boyfriend decided last minute to move his new truck out from under the car port and park it on the street. Later that day, the ditches were being filled in and the backhoe operator backed into the carport, causing the entire structure crash down off the house - right where the truck would have been.

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When my wife and I started dating, we were going to the same college close to home. My house was between hers and the college so she'd go to my place and we'd carpool to college. When it was my turn to drive, she'd park in a very specific spot in my yard. One day my step dad put his car he was selling in that spot so that day we both drove to school. That afternoon a big storm hit and a tree came down crushing my step dads car. Had my wife parked there like she normally would have, her car would have been destroyed.

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My dad taught me never just stumble out of the house, have a plan for what you are doing. Always have enough cash hidden on you for a meal and a phone call.

It's saved my life many times. There was a lot of advice after that, like having emergency kit in the car, change of clothes, cold weather gear if you're going somewhere cold, but that first set up top was a base for success.

First time I read hitchhikers guide to the galaxy I laughed, because yeah, you gotta bring your own towel. Never expect anyone else to provide it.

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For real. Soap, too. You'd be surprised. Or, maybe not. I like being as prepared as I can be for some of life's eventualities! Better to have it and not need it, than to need it and not have it! Right?

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I have anxiety and tend to over prepare even when it doesn't matter. 


Well, on a trip my husband and I were taking, I bought a bag of snacks and instant food when we were getting ready to leave a big city. This is one of his pet peeves because it's extra stuff to carry and he's not big on junk food. Well, too bad, I am! He voiced his annoyance, but we left and got our s**t ready to catch a bus to our next destination. 


Now, this was not a developed region. It wasn't even a populated region. We were taking a bus across a desert. There was going to be a stop along the way for dinner, but other than that it was a nonstop drive.


Wouldn't you know, the bus broke down halfway between the starting point and where the dinner stop was supposed to be. No food on board, no drinks. This is basically a sleeper bus. 


My snacks saved us. By the time the bus was up and running and we got to the stop, the restaurant was closed. (Not in America, so it wasn't a 24/7 rest stop.) But I had bought jerky, instant noodles, and a few other things that we were able to make a really s****y dinner that still had carbs, protein, and fruit.


And now that one instance gives me a free pass to collect snacks wherever I go.

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Does this mean you had enough for the whole bus?

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My ex and I used to go on lots of bike rides. She never wanted to wear a helmet because it would “mess up her hair”

Before a bike ride I asked, as always, if she was going to wear her helmet. She said no but this time I insisted that she did. While on said bike ride her wheel got stuck in the streetcar tracks and she went flying over her handlebars. Helmet got scuffed up pretty bad. Aside from some scrapes, bruises and a hematoma, she was alright.

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After seeing the state of my 3 year olds bike helmet after he crashed into a post, even though he was only on a balance bike. I will never let anyone ride one without a helmet.

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Rotated my pantry and completely re-stocked everything in 2019 - pantry, toiletries, haircare, medicines, and learned self-sufficiencies like doing my hair at home. Also went on a huge overseas tour during 2019. Also moved company software from on site to cloud early 2019.
Partner thought I'd gone wacky, but it was incredibly convenient.

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Because of how complex Brexit got some people I know had started to build Brexit stores. Not a major panic, just in case supplies got interrupted so they had what they needed and wanted to hand. That served a few people well when 2020 rolled round.

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Randomly felt moved to start a health insurance policy for my cat when she was 14, thinking it would come in handy if she ever needed emergency surgery for an accident or something. It was already tough to find a policy that would cover a cat that old, but I was weirdly determined, and I found one. I didn't want to have to choose between "put her to sleep because I don't have the cash for an unexpected but fixable veterinary expense" vs. "fix it."

Approximately a year later, she started limping. Took a few months to diagnose, thought it would be some mystery injury, but it turns out she had cancer — terminal. Having the insurance was a godsend; without it, it might've limited the number and types of tests and vet visits we would've been able to do to get a proper diagnosis (would've been a huge shock and very painful for her to just pass away without us ever finding out why), and when her vet prescribed a pricey painkiller that dramatically improved her quality of life in her final week or two, it was a huge relief not to have to worry about how to afford it.

It's painful enough to lose a pet. Having financial help doesn't make that loss ANY less painful... but having health insurance for her actually did make the situation slightly less stressful and give me peace of mind, knowing I could keep her comfortable. I'm still thankful for the small amount extra time the medicines gave us with her, too. Hard to put a price on things like that.

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Strange that I'm reading this now because I did exactly the same thing for my senior cat last month. She was a senior already when I adopted her and a couple of days ago she gave me a huge scare by drinking all of her water in one go! We lost her brother to kidney failure so I called the vet. Turns out she had only knocked the water out of the bowl ... she is fine!

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I'm a manager of a small chain of retail stores. I set up a back-up card processing system in case of internet outage. Most of our customers prefer to pay in debit, and due to processing fees we prefer to let them.

In 2022, there was an epic internet outage. Debit was down across the country.

But my back-up solution worked. So, for one glorious day, *Walmart* wasn't able to accept debit, but *my tiny chain* was.

My boss hadn't been sure about the amount of freedom he gave to me before that, but I got a lot of extra leash starting that day.

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Checked behind my car to find 3 kid bikes back here. I almost ran them over.

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If I understand this correctly someone checked behind before reversing their car? That's not a 'just in case' is it? That's absolutely essential.

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There was this girl I knew who would persistently beg me to get her to meet Jon Bon Jovi. We were in our 20’s, I’d met him several times, and she kinda latched on. She was fun.

One night we made reservations at the band hotel in Philly. I often went to that hotel and would see the guys in the bar. She came with.

**This was in November 2001**

In the middle of the night the fire alarm goes off. It wouldn’t turn off. The hotel came over the loudspeaker and said everyone stay in your rooms. They just kept repeating, stay where you are.

My friend went into a panic attack about how we couldn’t stay there. (We’re NYers, fyi.) She could hardly breath or walk. She leaned on me down 17 flights. Because I wasn’t staying… “just to be safe.”

We got to the lobby, i kicked open the fire door, there was Jon. Full on bed head.

My friend recovered quite swiftly.

*Nobody knows why the alarm went off.*

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Obviously the fire alarm went off so your friend could meet Jon Bon Jovi.

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My family was going to go to the mall one day but we had my nieces soccer game that day. I thought the game was early in the morning so we were getting ready to go and I texted my sister one last time to make sure I had the time right. Turns out I had the time wrong and if the game had been earlier that morning and we had gone to the mall like I had planned later in the afternoon we would have been in a mass shooting at a mall in Texas.

Link: https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/2023_Allen,_Texas_mall_shooting

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Not me, but my fiancé. He had decided in November to bump up his car insurance, and add comprehensive. In December, someone set fire to the inside of his truck cab in the middle of the night. (We live in a trailer court, and weird s**t had been happening to vehicles in a 10 mile radius for months. The cops dismissed it as electrical.) If he hadn't added that, we would have been absolutely screwed.

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I moved into my parents' old house and I fought my dad tooth and nail to get insurance for it. After 3 months, I finally convinced him to get insurance on it. About a year later, the house caught fire. We found out it was in his office area caused by a faulty power strip.

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I brought a bunch of stuff to my Grandma's funeral, including a PA speaker, associated wires, projector and screen. An hour before the service starts, the place where the funeral was being held had its TV and sound system stop working. While my family was discussing with the funeral staff on getting refund and rescheduling the funeral, I just walked calmly to my car, where the audio/video equipment was, grabbed the things (walking back and forth) and started setting up my equipment. My siblings saw what I was doing and helped me set things up. The funeral started an hour later than usual, but at least people were able to see my Grandma in happy photos for one last time.

Thank goodness I also brought a laptop, because the funeral staff only wanted the slideshow on a USB flash drive, and my projector didn't read USB flash drives.

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I work for an airline company.  Part of my job includes checking visas, especially if passengers are going to India. I wrote down when the visa expires on the boarding pass just to make sure I checked the documents.

 One of my colleagues got into huge trouble because he checked in a passenger with an expired visa.  He ended up getting detained on layover in England and deported back to America.  And now our company has to pay the very high fine for the visa violation. 

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Came home from vacation a day early and drove straight through. Hadn't shut off the water heater and came home to a burst water heater that had been running a few hours not days. Any longer and the house would've needed a complete remodel.

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TURN YOUR HOME'S MAIN WATER SHUTOFF VALVE OFF BEFORE ANY VACATION!!!

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Many, many years ago when I was a grad student in CS, I got along very well with the nice ladies who ran the office. They were going to make an office supply order and asked me if I could think of anything that they should add to it. I thought and said, "A bucket and a mop," which came in handy the next time the server room AC broke.

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Asked my friend to pull over so we could catch a Pokémon in Pokémon go (if you try to catch Pokémon whilst doing the speed limit on Pokémon go, the Pokémon will jump out automatically) (we both like the game so it was fine) which took like a minute or two.

Continued down the highway, and came across a car accident which had happened literally a minute or two before we got there.

If we didn’t stop to catch that damn Pokémon, we would have been in it.

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My husband and I used to drive a car that had a little pull out drawer in the dash. We had a one hitter for weed in it. Never really drove around with it, sometimes we did and honestly just forgot about it. One random day before he left I told him to take that one hitter out of the car. He did. He got pulled over and a cop unlawfully searched the car. We live in a no tolerance state so it’s hard telling what would have happened.

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One night, before going to bed, something told me to check upstairs. Everyone else had fallen asleep already. When I got upstairs, someone bumped the knob to our gas stove and it was just burning away😭 Our house has caught on fire before. So, just seeing that brought back many flashbacks.

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Bought some extra insurance thing when I was buying my first car in 2015. It wasn’t that much more considering, so I thought why not. Fast forward to 2018, my dickhole of a half nephew who had his permit offered to drive us back to the hotel after celebrating grandmas birthday at the farm. Pea brain decides to floor it trying to race my uncle driving a separate car, despite being warned to take it easy, and next thing you know the engine is smoking and we are stuck on the side of the road in no where Iowa. After much trouble and stress, I find a paper referencing the extra insurance thing buried in my car paperwork folder from the dealership. I was ~40 miles away from being over the mileage limit, but Hyundai ended up paying for the towing from no where Iowa to Mankato, MN and they replaced the whole engine.

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Avoided going to the beach just post Covid when people were allowed to go out. But on the radio it said high wind warning and to avoid beaches.

So we did not go, but next day there was a massive search operation for a child swept into the sea due to a rouge wave around the beach we had planned to visit. The boy’s body was never found.

We have 2 boys, at that time my elder son was 11 years old.

[news link](https://www.nbcnews.com/news/us-news/12-year-old-boy-swept-sea-wave-northern-california-n1254896)

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My husband keeps fix a flat and other items like that for me and the kids. It has helped so many times. I keep the first aid kits stocked with many variety of bandage and meds. #1 is always the eye wash. When it’s needed you don’t want to fumble around trying to find it

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Not my own experience. But my dad. Back in 1992 there was the Landers (California) earthquake. The week prior to it hitting. My dad was experiencing what we later learned was heart failure. So he wasn’t feeling well so he was sleeping on the couch. Finally the night before it hit, “I am feeling better so I am going to sleep in bed tonight.” If he hadn’t felt better the biggest chunk of the fireplace would have fallen down on top of his head.

Another time after the quake he again wasn’t feeling well, but with a ruptured appendix (or symptoms of it), so he was in and out of bed. He has this dream/hallucination that he has a “visitor” who asks him if he wants to live or wants to die? And if he wants to make sure the family will be ok or not? Gives him two options stay in Landers or move back to the Midwest where mostly my mom’s family lives. He chose us to go to Midwest. He was able to live until 2011.

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when i was 15 and learned how to drive, i decided that if my brakes ever failed, i’d just pull the ebrake as hard as possible. fast forward to being 19, getting off the freeway going 70 down a hill towards a mountain wall and traffic, and lo and behold, brakes don’t brake. they had gotten waterlogged from the wet freeway. pulled the ebrake as hard as possible, spun out and landed in a safe spot. i would have died that day if not for that, i was maybe 800 feet from a mountain wall going down hill and pulling the ebrake saved my life. 

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Didn't happen to me, but a friend. And it's something others might someday benefit from knowing. If you're ever a passenger in a car and the driver has a heart attack (or anything else that incapacitates them), the process is grab the steering wheel with one hand and use the other to put the car in neutral then slowly pull on the hand brake. Yes, I know this may not be possible in every car, but do what you can. Only after you have control, should you worry about looking for the hazard lights button.

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Keeping a little 12v motorized tire inflator in my car. Got a flat when I went camping once, and it saved the day. The leak was just from the valve, so once I re inflated my tire and tightened the cap, it held for the rest of the trip, and got me home no problem. I was backcountry camping on crown land, and a four hour drive from home, so getting roadside service would have been expensive.

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Memorized the map of a park before a date.

Nothing crazy, so no TW needed.

I agreed to meet for coffee and a walk with a guy from an app. Late afternoon, very popular park. I’m paranoid though and like to know my exit routes. In my profile it stated I was working as a chef, and that I never wanted kids.

We are less than 3 minutes into this and he says, “women who work in kitchens are delusional if they think they can make it in that industry. They’re too emotional.” At which point it’s totally over for me and now in my mental map sorting the fastest route back to my car.

He followed that a minute or so later with a comment about how I would change my mind about kids, because he wanted kids.

Didn’t even realize I was walking us back to our cars. Date was maybe 10 min from beginning to end and he had the audacity (I don’t even know if that’s the right word to describe completely oblivious confidence) to ask if I wanted to go back to his place.



I did the same thing on another date, but I told him out right I wasn’t into him and this f*****g buffoon with a sneer of incredulity says, “you could at least give me a blowie for the trouble.”

I laughed as I walked away.


But yea. Always know your way out, rule number 2 in my dating book.


Ohh third story of know your way out. I was living in London and it was the night of the World Cup, England v. France. This guy asked to meet for a drink after the game. We settled on a place, and my true crime nerd brain memorized three potential safety routes. Well shockingly it did not go great. England lost, and I had told him before agreeing to meet I wouldn’t be going home with him after a first date. We’re only partway into our first drink and he’s goading me to “make up the loss” for him. I turn him down, and am quickly losing my patience. When he dead eyes me and says, “you have until I get back from the toilet to reconsider or we’re gonna have a problem.”

I waited til he was out of sight, handed the bartender (who overheard) a tenner to pay for my drink and used escape route A to get on the next train home (always memorize train and bus schedules if they are part of your escape plan).

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I got a tetanus shot on a whim one day since I was past due for mine and I work in a high risk industry. The pharmacist actually tried to talk me out of it, said that that I don’t need the shot until after I get cut by something. (I get dinged up by enough rusty things to know that this was not realistic for me)

One month later, I was trying on boots at a thrift store and one of those big industrial tacks they use for security tags went clean through my big toe. Not in. Through. I still got the boots though, they’re really cute. The store still didn’t give me a discount though.

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Shoulda sued!

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A friend of mine bought a PoS beat a*s 87 Civic. It had "racing harnesses" but the passenger seat's shoulder strap was snapped. We were about to take a ride in it, so I tied it up as hard as I could before we left just in case. We ended up smoking weed and playing videogames.

Fast forward 2 weeks and my friend calls and said he wrecked his car going too fast, smashed a tree at ~50mph, with a passenger. That passenger was only prevented from being ammunition in a windshield cannon because of the knot I tied. Every other strap was too loose.

Get real seatbelts and wear them.

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and don't drive a car and smoke weed and speed

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Well, I took tomorrow off even though I arrived home from Europe today. Good thing I did because it’s 11PM and I’m currently waiting to take off at Philadelphia and have been waiting for hours.

*Edit* Scratch that. Apparently you can’t wait over 3 hours to de-ice so looks like I’m stuck in Philly.

*Edit Edit* My pilots are determined to get to Indy so they’re going to try again.

*Edit Edit Edit* They did it! We’re taking off! We’re one of the very few planes actually leaving tonight!

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OP? Did you get there alive and safe? We need an edit edit edit edit!

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