The embarrassing moments thread got me thinking about near misses, so this thread is your chance to tell yours! It could either be lucky escapes from a nearly-embarrassing situation or maybe lucky escapes from accidents or disasters.

For example, I once finally finally got up the courage to tell a guy that I really liked him, I walked around the corner and there he was, kissing my friend! Arghh! It's a good job I didn't tell him five minutes earlier, I would have looked really stupid as they had been going out together in secret for a few weeks by that stage! :rolleyes:

Anyway, it worked out really well for me because a few weeks later I met a much better guy and he turned out to be the love of my life! Yay! :P

^ awwww. I was feeling sorry for you until the last sentence!

Cool topic, Kath!

hmmm . . . near misses . . . .

I was once surfing near these big rocks in the water.

I was only there because the waves were breaking so cool at this place.

I started catching this wave and it got higher and higer, and then I looked down in front of me, and the whole water was full of rocks. Big boulders!

I was so scared. It was too late to pull out. So I just stayed lying down on my board and closed my eyes and prayed for the best.

Well, the wave broke and pushed me towards shore, I opened my eyes, and I was no where near any rocks!!

It was a miracle! I've never been back to that rocky beach again. Give me sand anyday!

Gr. 7 - Assembley in front of my Elementary school, which by the way was the 2nd largest post-secondary school in the disctrict, so imagine the people. During a November 11 tribute, I was to read the poem "Flanders Fields" in front of the school. Alls good, I get to go up, and I sorta trip on a bench, altho I managed to keep my balance, and continued walking to the mic to give my speach, I still remember that poem off by heart to! (In flanders fields the poppie blow, between the crosses row-by-row, that mark the dead and in the sky the larks still bravely singing fly... oh yeah, back to my story :))

I looked at the video after and it just looked like i was jumping over the bench, and none of my friends thought I had tripped... phew!

Ooh! I learned that poem too! Weird. And I still know it.

..Scarce heard amid the guns below. We are the dead, short days ago, we lived, felt dawn, saw sunset glow, loved and were loved, but now we lie in Flander's fields....
Cool.

For me.. I've almost gotten run over by cars a few times. And..I guess that's about it.
Will have to think of others...

This is going to sound like one of those horrible stories that happen in American movies made by ignorant people who think that all British people know each other, and have garden parties with the Queen, and say "What ho, chaps!", and wear bowler hats. But I swear that this is true!

My family were invited by the Queen, to a garden party at Buckingham Palace. There were several royals in attendance, including the Queen and Prince Charles. Unfortunately the weather was utterly awful. The rain was pouring from the sky like the sea cut into thin strips. I've never seen rain like it since.

Anyway, lightning struck a tree about 80 yards from where we were standing, and unfortunately two women were hurt. But not me, in a twist which makes this whole post relavent, I had a LUCKY ESCAPE!

This made all the national newspapers, which meant I had a nice momento of the day.

Lovely

I'm trying to find a reference to this online, and have dug up this...
http://archive.thisislancashire.co.uk/1996/07/24/848402.html

:o Wow. That's scary. You ARE lucky.

And guess what "What ho" reminded me of. Jeeves and Wooster. Which I need to watch. More. "What ho what ho what ho!"

How'd you manage that?

To this day we have no idea!

We have three theories:
1. It was something to do with my mum being a member of the Royal Pharmaceutical Society
2. It was something to do with my dad working for the Ministry of Defense
3. Maybe they just pick people semi-randomly

Crazy, I would have love to gone... can you invite me next time?

I'm sure there won't be a next time. :)

I also missed the chance to do something really funny while at the palace, but I didn't think of it at the time. Unfortunately you'll never know what it is!!!

Ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha hahahahahahahahahahaaaaaaaaaaaaaa!
:blink:

That guy's a fat ugly slob now anyway!

About a year ago when I was learning how to drive to my college I got lost (my sister and I - when she went with me - had sworn we had fallen into the Twilight Zone, because the street we had to get on to go back home had disappeared! "Submitted for your approval: Two ordinary young adults, searching for a street that doesn't exist in an overcrowded, poor-ass town that nobody wants to live in. This is the Twilight Zone!").

The crappy town I was in - get this - doesn't allow any left turns down the main roadway! WTF??? So I try to turn around and don't know where I am. I start to go down one street to try to get back and I notice it's a one-way street! (And I'm going the second way.) I quickly turn to avoid going down said street and promptly hit and take out a street sign!

Kay, so that's not really a near miss, is it? Well, it is because I never got into any trouble for it! I know some lady saw me hit it, and the front fender (or whatever) got a little torn, but otherwise I got out without any repercussions! I had even parked on the side of the street to look at my car and a car with sirens (don't think it was the police, but some sort of official car, anyway) drove past me! I played it cool and pretended I had just parked there and was just going to my car to drive away. Eventually I found my way home, and that street learned a valuable lesson for being so stupid.