“The Bullet I Dodged Was That Linda Was A Flake”: 44 Times People Got Truly Lucky

Not taking out $150k+ of private loans for a bachelor's degree in nursing at a private school. waited an extra year to fatten up my resume and experience to apply to the cheaper (more competitive) nursing programs and got into an accelerated 15 month program that only costs $45k. on the trajectory to walk and take the nclex next may. no regrets.

I was jogging on a path in the woods and an enormous tree limb fell, crashing on the path ten feet behind me. If I was just a second or two slower it would have been gruesome.

Ran for public office and lost thank goodness. Forced me to reevaluate my priorities. I’m a better man today than if I had won.

I was driving on the highway at about 70mph to meet my now wife's mom for the first time. Suddenly a 10-20 lb arrowhead-shaped piece of broken asphalt was launched at my car in a huge arch from the wheels of the speeding semi ahead of me. I had enough time to calmly realize "that's going right at me." I didn't know if I should hit the brakes, speed up -- no idea. I think I just took my foot off the accelerator . It landed on the hood of my car right in front of the windshield, leaving a huge gouge on the metal hood. The hood absorbed a lot of the impact, but momentum kept the chunk moving and it bounced onto the windshield and cracked it. It then rolled onto the roof -- gouging that -- then the back window and the trunk lid, scraping everything it touched. If I had been going the most miniscule amount faster or was literally 1 foot closer to that truck I have no doubt that thing would have gone through the windshield and me.

I think everyone has some kind of similar story. Some of them we know about -- like this event -- but others we have no idea about because nothing happened.

I left my baby daddy before he was able to break me into thinking I couldn't do better. When I got pregnant he said I'd get fat and ugly and he'd cheat. I dumped him, I never did get fat or ugly, but he sure did!

Pulled over on the side of the highway when my car failed me (old 325CI). It was night time and drizzling. Told my GF at the time to get out of the car. She was confused and upset about it. Literally 2 min after she gets out a drunk driver plows into the back of my car. No airbags deployed and we wouldn’t have had our seatbelts on. The firemen who came were so surprised that we had gotten out and stood behind the barrier. Someone was watching over us that night.

My ex husband leaving me felt like the end of the world (he groomed me starting at 15, I'm 30 now so I didn't really know love/life without him much) but it was the best thing he ever did for me. My life has been miserable and hard but as a person I'm very happy. Currently with the love of my life. Had no idea a relationship could be this easy and happy. I feel STUPID lucky to have my boyfriend.

Marrying the wrong person. It would’ve been too easy to just go with the flow, he proposed and we had things in common, I liked his family and could see a life together. But I knew in my heart it was not the life I wanted and I’m so glad for both of us that I did the tough thing and broke some hearts. We are both now married to people who are a much better fit for us.

Driving home with my wife after a party was like 2:30 am. We were coming up to a light after getting off the freeway the light was red so I was coasting to a stop, the light turned green and I just continued to coast instead of accelerating. 


Right before we get to the intersection another car flies through the red light doing easily 50+ mph.


Had I accelerated through the light like normal we probably would have been t-boned.

I dated a Mormon briefly when I was 19 and was a total wreck when he dumped me. Everything I’ve learned about Mormons since fills me with so much relief lol. Plus I got a much cooler husband.

I was crossing an intersection on my bike when a city bus approaching from my left ran a red light going easily 45 mph. I saw it and stopped just in time; it grazed my front tire as it roared past. I would have been crow food if I hadn't seen it.

Many but this one sticks out. I hated math but loved the job my dad did. He travelled the world going to building's his company insured. So i was going to school for engineering...to travel. Like an idiot thinking that's what all engineers did. Was taking math classes and struggling. My brain just doesn't work that way. Cut to one year into college, at a party. Cops showed (I was 18 "OH NO THE COPS" Era). I was blacked out and woke up in the hospital. Apparently I had jumped off the balcony to catch a tree and missed. Fell three stories. Cracked my pelvis and broke my arm.

Had to cancel my schedule of math classes. BUT, i had signed up for an online psychology course. So that semester, I was taking Percocets and reading psychology like a book i had never been so enthralled in. I switched my major immediately, realized i was a creative and started doing stand up comedy. I know the life i was heading towards would've been a disastrous and it took that incident to change my course realize I had a different calling.

I’m neurodivergent, so I’m extremely socially awkward and have trouble making friends. No one has tried to recruit me into their MLM.

I’m not saying I’m smarter than people who get suckered into pyramid schemes and MLMs. It’s just that the mere thought of talking to people I don’t know makes me so anxious that I immediately run the other way if the opportunity arises. Lots of bullets dodged there.

Went to a friend’s house said his girlfriend is bringing a friend for me and to see if we hit it off. She was a major flirt and thought things were going well. At the end of the night I made my move and she shot me down.

Fast forward 10 years at that same friend’s wedding. The girl was there obese drunk and very attention hungry.
She comes up to me while I’m standing there with my date (future wife) and she begins with “hey do you remember me? Remember when you tried todate me and I laughed?” I hit her with
“Do you remember when you were all wasted and bought up some awkward stuff at a wedding and made everyone uncomfortable?”
She looked so confused. And went “No” I said
“Oh because it’s happening right now.”

She then proceeded to make a drunken best woman speech then went around to every guy at wedding asking if they wanted to dance even if they had dates or not.

Literal bullets on two occasions and I'm uninvolved in any kind of industry or profession where you would expect to be shot at.

Not leaving the military when I got fed up, stuck it out and retired after 23 years.

I work industrial service. There was a time when I walked about 2/3 to my equipment from my truck to get the hour meter reading for the paperwork, and realized that I forgot my hard hat. In the time it took me to get it, a barrel of bronze bars had fallen from a mezzanine right into my walking path. Had I not gone back, I would have likely been crushed. So, indirectly, my hard hat saved my life.

There was also a time when I had hopped a set of train tracks on my rollerblades with the gates down, and a train running full speed passed before my rollerblades had returned to the ground. That was a close shave.

I was driving a 2000 Toyota Camry to play poker at Cherokee casino in North Carolina. I just got my check from Black Friday when online poker shut down in the United States. So for a couple years I was working restaurant jobs and going to school bc my dream was over. But then that $12k check came in. And I restarted my dreams.

This was a couple months into me getting back into poker. I was driving down the mountain in a very bendy section of the interstate, right turn downhill and it was pretty steep for the interstate. A downpour came out of no where, just absolutely drenching the road. I start spinning out bc I have some bald tires on my car since I’ve been broke for so long. There’s a car in front of me, a car beside me, and a car directly behind me. I do one full 360, then I hit the median and do another 360, I’m still spinning and end up backwards on a patch of grass to the side of the road.

This is the only patch of grass. Tree line 50 yards behind me. Tree line 50 yards in front of me.

I just sit there. In shock. A bunch of cars pull over to make sure I’m okay. And a state trooper pulls over. Everything is fine. My car has one scratch on the bumper. So then I just drive off. Thinking wth just happened.

I lost $1500 at the poker tables. 😂 could have guessed that would happen.

Then on my way home my hood pops up while I’m driving and I can’t see anything while going 60 mph on the interstate. It’s all bent and messed up. I use straps to keep it down.

Then the next week I have the craziest run in my poker career. I made $50k in 3 days in the sketchiest home games. They actually kick me and my buddy out of these games bc they’re sick of us pros coming.

Anyway I go and buy a new car that week. And my poker career was pretty good after that. Never a $50k week. But I made tenfold that over the years.

Now I’m a metal worker/artist and doing what I love. And it started out being funded by my love for a stupid card game.

I used to pray in grade school every night to get to marry a classmate. In high school she told me to get out of her life when I asked her out. Decades latter, she was morbidly obese and obviously a drunk. I am glad the answer to my prays was “no”.

Said no to being with someone I thought was a good friend because he was lonely and I was last choice.

Genuinely hope he's doing well, but God did that hurt.