Ahh Luck.
Was run over by a pontoon boat in my younger years while swimming with a life jacket on. Friends thought it would be funny to do a close drive by, but the boat wouidn't turn quick enough. I jumped as it came at me to try and grab the front deck, it was going too fast and ripped my hand away, I saw a rope hanging between the two pontoons so had a second shot, grabbed the rope but it was mossy and wet and I slipped off of it... third ditch effort I snagged a pontoon and somehow pushed myself under the pontoon WITH my life jacket on as the outboard prop spun by me.
Was laying in a cargo net about 25 feet up when I was a kid, with some friends on the net. A bigger friend climbed down the ladder a bit and was gonna monkey bar across the bottom of the net...but it ripped out of its anchors and we all went flying down. I was closest to where it ripped out and fell backwards, head and neck first. at the last second before I was off the net I managed to grab hold of one of the netting webs, it flipped me around and I then started falling feet first.
Had my neck knelt on by a police officer's knee when I was about 17 yrs old. Despite my plea's for help another cop hopped on my legs to stop me from moving. Somehow I gasped through the ordeal, WHILE HANCUFFED, only to be choke-holded and marched down to a river bank where my life was threatened as the police sergeant mock executed me by pushing me towards the river, then pulling me back. He punched me in the face a few times, put me in the squad car, drove me around the city for about 30 minutes then took me to jail under false trespassing claims. This was before camera's were everywhere in society and without video footage, or any broken bones the lawyers told me I didn't have a case. "NOBODY" was winning cases against the precinct...not even wrongful deaths at the time.
Was driving 3 of my friends to check out a college when I was 17 and the sun was setting on the horizon. I came over a hill to meet a MASSIVE moose just standing dead still on the highway as I was driving about 70mph. I swerved, the car over responded, I hit the dirt median and ended up doing a 180 turn around the moose. Now the predicament, I was doing about 55mph going backwards on the freeway. I hit the brakes and swerved again to whip the car around another 180 degrees, somehow found third gear in my Chevy Beretta just in time for the tires to hook up and voila, we were back on our way, alive and well. I remember seeing the insane white smoke cloud that surrounded that moose standing in the freeway and I thought...someone is going to hit that thing dead on...but it wasn't me.
Went airborne in a Z28 Camaro after a friend was driving it waay too fast on a road that took a sudden 90 degree turn. He downshifted as quickly as possible, threw the car inot the right drainage ditch...we hit the road that the turn went into and went flying through the air. We flew through a few oak branches and landed on a fence in the homeowners yard across the road. The strange thing was, the homeowner and the driver of the car new eachother. Missed the tree trunk by about 3 feet. The cops and ambulance came to check us out and they said, kids 3 feet to the left and you would have been dead. Had he not hit that drainage ditch we would have smacked right into the tree trunk. I plucked all the branches and leaves out of my hair and moved on in my life.
Blessed with 3 kids and a supportive wife. Still have both my folks, and one of my grandparents. Grandpa lived to be 89, Grandma is 92.
Wife and baby #2 had a hairy birthing experience, lost lots of blood, but both pulled through. They made me sign some forms stating I understood they would do anything in there medical powers to save both our baby and my wife. Had to sign some blood transfusion forms and they were headed to emergency C section before a miracle happened and the baby finally decided to come out. She didn't look like she was alive, and one of the 3 Dr. in the room told me it was going to be okay, so I trusted them. Everything turned out fine in the long run and I love my daughter more than life itself.
I'm sure I'm missing some other lucky moments in my life, but honestly I am just blessed to wake up each morning and watch the sunrise and set. Sometimes I feel like a cat with 9 lives. Life is good!
