I've had one, and sort of two.
And this will be an interesting thread.
Had you been t-boned you probably would have died along with her..........those are hard to survive. Modern cars improve your odds but back then cars were not made like they are today.
I can relate
@CGI_Ram because I came milliseconds from a head on collision, on a curving road with a 50 MPH speed limit in High Point NC at the furniture market some years back. Mid 90's.
I hope the person driving the truck has had a miserable life because I swerved to avoid the accident but overdid it and ended up hitting a small telephone pole. Thankfully I wear my seat belt. I turned my head to see the truck and the POS driving the it had stopped maybe 50 or maybe more feet behind me, then I saw the brake lights go off as it sped away after seeing my cars nose deep into a pole. The fucking asshole drove off after seeing what happened because of how they drifted into my lane. I may not have died, but it would have been an ugly ass accident and that fuck left me.
The real one though..........was from a little small insect!
When I was a kid I used to go to the swimming pool that the community I lived in operated. It was outdoors, only open during the summer and had a tall fence, turnstiles and a concession stand that sold candy and drinks in the parking lot. You had to buy a season pass and sew it onto your swimsuit to be allowed in but nobody ever checked because it was the place to go for kids and parents even though me and my friends always went alone because we were "old enough".
I had gone almost every day, friends on the block and I would ride our bikes there all the time. It was the big adventure of the summer to "go to the pool" all the time.
One day we went across the grass to the stand in the parking lot to get something to drink and I stepped on a honeybee. It was between my toes and stung me. I brushed it off and went back to the pool and we were all swimming and playing. We were diving in the deep end, 10', to race after rubber bricks that the lifeguards would toss in to see who could get there fastest or who could pick up the most. I was usually great at it, and was a fantastic swimmer but I felt sick and went to lay down on my towel on the cement pool deck.
I don't remember anything after that until waking up in the local hospital with shit stuck into my nose and arm and a nurse telling me everything was OK. Of course I was freaking out inside! My parents were there, inside of the hospital curtain that was drawn around me, I don't recall much of that other than were very upset. I was scared as fuck and started crying and I remember my father running his hand through my hair and cradling my head then bending over and kissing my forehead.
After a few minutes the Doctor arrived and was standing outside of the curtain talking to my parents and I remember him saying that if it wasn't for the lifeguard noticing me having a reaction that I would have died from it and that I had a fatal reaction to the venom and would need to get checked out more or whatever.
What happened after I passed out, or went into shock as I found out later was a lifeguard (her name was Sue Carter and I won't forget that name) saw me laying on my towel looking like death and came over to check on me more closely. She knew enough to know that something was wrong and had the rec center call an ambulance because my foot was swollen up like an elephants. The hospital took care of the rest.
30 minutes more would have deprived you fuckers of my graceful presence. I know that's difficult to fathom.
It was that close and that's no lie, I almost died laying on a public pool deck from a bee sting. I don't know where she is, or how her life has turned out but Sue Carter saved me.
For years I carried a bee sting kit and wore a Medic Alert bracelet if you know what those are. I went to get desensitization shots all the time, seemingly weekly, through to High School, and they evidently worked. Although I think my body also changed from puberty which came years later. I've been stung two times since and I won't bore you with those stories but they are kinda funny.
