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

Parked my car further down the street so that I wouldn’t be boxed in if the club got raided.

Club got raided and they boxed the street in. I strolled down the street casually and got in my car and left.

I was booking an anniversary trip to Turkey with my wife. I planned flights from London to Ataturk airport, plus a few flights within Turkey. It took a lot of work to plan the itinerary. When I went to book the flight, I was given the option to pay or to hold the flight for 24 hours. “Just to be safe” and make sure I could get the hotel I had chosen, I selected the save for 24 hour option. Given my inherent distrust of technology, and not wanting to lose all the hard work I had put into planning the itinerary, “just to be safe”, I saved the itinerary to PDF so I could recreate it if needed.

After saving the itinerary, I began the work of booking the hotel, but it was very late, and I was tired, so I said, “Screw it; I’ll book the hotel in the morning.” When morning rolled around and I started booking the hotel, I saw that overnight Turkey had shot down a Russian jet. “Just to be safe”, I decided to wait a while to complete booking of the trip.

The decision to wait turned out to be the right one. Although the response from Russia was muted, the s**t hit the fan in neighbouring Syria and I decided maybe visiting Turkey wasn’t for us. I gave up on the trip, “just to be safe”.

That decision to abandon the trip was validated when six months later, terrorists attacked Atatürk airport, killing 48 people and injuring 230+ people. Curious, I dug out that old PDF to check the dates. Given the itinerary and the timing of the attack, I would have been at Ataturk airport, awaiting the flight back to London.

That save-for-24-hours option saved my a*s.

Working with my best friend, best man at my wedding - built a company together. He sends me an email that includes the line "just sue me if I screw you."

If somebody ever sends you an email with that line in it, my advice is to send a copy to your personal email - even if it seems like nothing could possibly go wrong. Even when you're friends. I'm glad I did.

When it came up in the mediation, his lawyer was like "yeah you should just settle.".

In the military, had supervisors out to screw me over, but I kept meticulous records. Whenever they tried to throw me under the bus, I always had the paperwork to back my play.

I guess my most recent was getting a colonoscopy last month. I’m in my thirties, but both brother and uncle have died from colon cancer, so I’m supposed to get them every five years. Nearly didn’t do it this year (I really hate them), but they found and removed some precancerous polyps. 👍🏼 The prep was less arduous this time as well, so all together, not a bad experience!

Remove a mole. Ended up being precancerous.

Late December early January 2020 when I was starting to hear about Covid, I decided to stock up on toilet paper and disinfectant wipes. Best decision ever. Never ran out of it, actually ended up giving a few rolls to a friend.

I worked in a grocery store and when covid started to freak people out and the quarantine was being talked about, I decided just to be safe Id set abunch of basic necessities and toilet paper aside in the back room for the employees to be able to purchase since a lot of us couldnt go buy any thing to the very end of our shift and it would all be sold out and hoarded by then. It was a pretty good call since we sold PALLETS of it in the matter of just a few hours, even with a "2 packs per customer" limit. So it LITERALLY saved my a*s.

For some reason I stuffed a towel in my shoulder bag. Then my water bottle opened by itself and the only reason it didn’t ruin most of the stuff inside my bag was the d**n towel.

It was the first time ever I stuffed a towel on my bag. I still don’t know why I did that and yet it paid off.

Got the $100 insurance to cover any damages to a rental truck I got to drive from denver to Los Angeles. I hit a bollard pretty badly, and did a lot of damage so I’m really glad I paid that extra $100 up front. Stupid 19 year old me was so smart that day!! Not the day I hit the bollard.

Brought a c****m just in case my FWB at the time was in the mood. She didn’t even care. Said

‘Come on. Just do it inside’

‘You on the pill?’

‘Uuuuum-‘

‘C****m!’.

Meterman doing install on a big barn on a big ranch. The linemen hadn’t even pulled in the line yet. So dead, right? Turns out there were two big barns and the second one was going to be fed from this one. The journeyman I was with could hear a motor running off in the distance. I couldn’t hear it but to be safe he checked the voltages. The motor he heard was a generator tied to the other barn almost 1/4 mile away.

Put on my safety glasses and then like 2 seconds later some f****r threw a chestnut directly at my eye. Might’ve saved my vision because it was a direct hit.

All work related but asking extra questions on things like wires has saved my a*s multiple times... Finding out it was money laundering or savings someone from being scammed. Super rewarding. I've learned that whenever I have a gut feeling it's 9/10 times right and to look into it further.

Not me but a good friend, age old story. He was with a chick who left him for a few weeks. Shows back up and “becomes pregnant” within the first 2 months. When the baby is delivered “early” he refused to sign the birth certificate right away. She left him after a week or 2 after she got out of the hospital. Got back with the guy she left him for. She sued for child support and he demanded a DNA test. He was found to not be the father. A few years later we see the other guy randomly and he comes up to my buddy. Come to find out they had planned the whole thing. They wanted him to sign the certificate and try to milk him for child support.

I never got insurance on my rental cars. But back in June I was in the Cayman Islands and thought “different country. Might as well.” Got in a car accident.

I’ve carried a spare car key in my wallet for years and it’s saved me a few times.

I wiped one more time.

I always double lock my car because I know I might forget. And last week, the car next to mine was robbed and mine was locked, thank God.

Bringing tums with me, for any s**y occasion! Never know when acid reflux will strike and ruin any enjoyment.