Near Death ExperiencesLast time I crashed my bike, as I flew through the air towards the car in front of me not much went through my head apart from "You idiot". No tunnels, no lights to stay away from, no smiling family members beckoning to me.
Surely you've had a better near-death experience?
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chthonic, Thu 25 Nov 2004, 11:35)
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It was my friend's 18thAnd after the party a few of us decided to go on to Strathclyde Uni Student Union in Glasgow City Centre. We're mostly sobered up by this point and we call a taxi, but of course given how long it took to arrive, we were pretty much wasted when we climbed in.
So this taxi's speeding along through the busy streets of Glasgow, the driver merrily chatting away to three drunken teenage girls in the back, quite often turning all the way round in his seat and not watching the road at all. The state we were in, nobody really noticed, so when the guy went speeding through a red light only to notice and stamp on the brake pedal a split second before another car would have slammed into the side of us, it took a good few seconds to realise we had almost died.
The rest of the journey was spent in shocked, burnt-rubber-scented silence.
(, Tue 30 Nov 2004, 15:08, Reply)
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