40 Times A “Just To Be Safe” Precaution Was The Only Thing Standing Between Life And Death

Take pictures of EVERYTHING before you move into a rental. So many times landlords have tried to dock my deposit for things that were there before I moved in.

I was working on an electrical system that was, according to another technician, already disconnected from it's power supply inside the case it was housed in. So I could just swap out my parts, reconnect the power, and everything is good.

Just to be safe, I went to the electrical room and disconnected the breaker to the case I was working on, then I swapped out my parts, noticing that several wires were not secure, so I reconnected them. I went back to the breaker, flipped it on, and return to my work to find everything powered already. The f*****g idiot disconnected the wrong wires for the power. If I had swapped out my parts, they would've shorted out and I probably would've gotten lit up like a Christmas tree.

Retaking an std test because I was almost certain that the first one was a false negative.

Second one came back positive, got meds, and have since tested negative. Just glad I didn't spread something to other people.

My dad always tells me to look both ways before driving into an intersection after it turns green. One day I looked both ways in a major city, was about to go, and a car came flying through a red light. I for sure would've been in the hospital if I didn't look, likely would be dead. Just to be safe, I always look both ways.

Always keeping extra pads in my purse, for myself & if anybody else needs them.

Checking my pockets for my keys before I lock myself out.

I angled a bunch of steel fence posts we loaded into the back of our car rather than having them straight on. Just had a feeling.

We got rear ended at a full stop by a guy doing 60mph. The posts got jammed sideways rather than forward.

Wore a motorcycle jacket. I would usually head out in a lightweight urban style bike jacket with protective shoulders and forearms. I wore a fully protective jacket because i had a weird feeling, and i ended up sliding and hitting a curb at stupid speed in the middle of nowhere. I was flung as soon as my wheels hit the curb and the bikes wheel had landed on my back between my shoulders. Doctors were amazed i walked into A+E by my own, nevermind alive. If it wasnt for that jacket and the protective back plate, it wouldnt have looked so good. If you ride a motorcycle, wear your gear. It will save your life.

Keep and print a LOT of emails and sending a lot of "As we discussed" communications. I still have my emails from 2001.

Not me, but a cop friend. A couple was brought to the police station after a bad fight. My friend, a rookie at the time, managed to convince them to make peace, and they left holding hands.

When they left, an experienced officer told him he should file their (previous) complaints anyway, so if they fought again it didn't come to bite his behind. He did it, and the next day there was a very popular radio program accusing the police of refusing to file a couple's complaint and "forcing" them to make peace. He thankfully had the file and could cover his a**.

I’m sure that vasectomy I got after my divorce has paid off several times.

Usually when I go deep into the woods for camping, I rely on fish for food, but I usually bring a couple things of crackers and a propane stove to make sure I don't have any issues. About 3 years ago, I took my trip a little too late into the Olympic National Forest and ended up getting caught by snow that was supposed to hold off for another week.

I had packed an extra freeze-dried meal bag because I thought it might be good (it was spaghetti and meat sauce, REALLY tasty). The lake I wanted to fish was hard to get to, and I had to spend the night freezing my a*s off, so I cooked that freeze-dried meal, and not only was I warm, I was full.

Now, I always overpack to make sure I don't get f****d. I don't know what I was thinking, being alone out there at 16 with not enough gear to really last me. Now I keep double what I need in my rig.

I lifted the drain in the bathtub in my hotel room Wednesday of last week, when I noticed it was down. I usually don’t mind a bit of standing water when I shower but this time I just sort of reached down without really thinking about it.

Soaked under the hot water at the end of a cold day for 15-20 minutes. Woke up 5 hours later lying on my back in the tub, limbs everywhere else, staring up at the showerhead still running hot water down on me.

Still don’t know why or how I passed out after multiple CT scans, an MRI, EEG, and an ultrasound on my heart. Maybe the hot water made me lightheaded, maybe I slipped, and either way can’t recall the moment due to getting reconcussed in the process. I’m lucky I woke up at all after five hours in what was essentially a sauna. But I definitely would have drowned if I hadn’t noticed the tub was plugged and, against my norm, unplugged it.

Weirdly enough? Getting an STD test after my ex cheated on me. No STDs but they did a pap as part of it to test for HPV and that’s how I found out I actually had cancer cells on my cervix. I wasn’t due for a pap for several months but because they caught it so early they were able to get it with a LEEP procedure. My gyno said it likely would have progressed further and I might have needed further treatment if I hadn’t had the forethought to get tested because he cheated. 🤷🏻‍♀️.

Googled if I could put bleach in a drain I just put baking soda and vinegar in.

Back when I did civil work, I had a client who got sued by a former business partner. These two guys had known each other for decades and their relationship had seriously soured. The former partner sued both one of my client's many companies **and** my client personally.

One of the first things you have to do when you're sued is file an answer to the lawsuit within a specific time. If you don't, the other side automatically wins and then can have a hearing to determine money damages and demand the defendant come to court to show how they're going to satisfy that debt.

You can always call opposing counsel to get an extension of time in which to answer and, absent very extraordinary circumstances, the extensions are routinely granted. I called opposing counsel and asked for an indefinite extension of time to answer because my client told me he and his partner were going to try to work things out. Opposing counsel agreed.

It's generally accepted practice where I was practicing at the time for the party granting the extension to send the other party a letter memorializing the extension. For some reason, I sent the letter instead, noting the indefinite extension of time to answer and an agreement that the other side would notify me before taking any action detrimental to my client.

Fast forward four or five years. I was no longer representing the client. It wasn't an adversarial thing; I simply moved the focus of my practice and my former client got another attorney. But I got a panicked call from my former client saying that his former partner was trying to have his house seized to satisfy the default judgment they had taken in the old case.

I ended up having to testify at a hearing, with the letter I had written, and the email I had attached it to when I sent it to opposing counsel. Opposing counsel, without notifying me or my former client's current attorney, took a default judgment, saying that client hadn't answered in time, so his client won and deserved a six-figure judgment.

When he took the stand, all he could say was he didn't remember any conversation with me and didn't remember granting such an extension. But he agreed that the email address on the copy of the email in evidence was his email.

The judge, in a written ruling, ruled in favor of my former client based almost exclusively on my testimony, and the letter and email. I don't know for sure, but I think she also reported the other attorney to the bar association for what he did.

Didnt save my a*s. But I have chickens, and they are semi free range. They are usually allowed to be let loose in the back yard to graze and do chicken stuff.

One day, it was a really dreary day and i wasn't sure if letting them out was a good idea. Even though the weather said the chance of a storm was minimal. Well we had a storm, and it took down a ton of branches that were right in the middle of my chickens fav spots to hang out. So my "Just to be safe" mindset probably kept them from being killed by falling branches.

When hurricane Ida was approaching it came to mind that our house was surrounded by big old trees, so 'just to be safe' we headed north. The day after the storm our neighbors called and told us that a large tree had fallen and split out house in two. If we had been there we would have been either k****d or seriously injured.

I was young in my teens back in the 90s, I use to go to an arcade by a movie theater in commerce, there was a gang member in the arcade playing games, then two from another gang started s**t with the one guy.

yeah I saw the writing on the walls and left, when I got home the news was saying cops were responding to a shooting at the arcade I was just at. there was a shooting and bystanders got hit like 15min after I left.

thank you spider senses.

My grandpa was trying to turn on a gas grill. But it wasn't starting. So to be safe i got a cup of soapy water to check for leaks and poured the soapy water in the gas hose and I saw some bubbles coming out so I quickly shut off the gas, My grandpa was about to use a match to light the grill, if i hadn't caught that we would have had an explosion. We would have died over some rib eye steaks.