AskBeehaw

When I think about it, I've had many more of these experiences than I realized before.

Asides just flying out to the Aleutian islands which is always a risk. I'll have to go with being attacked by a mother moose when I was 14 or so with my grandma. We gave it a wide berth, did everything right but she must have been terrorized recently (it was near a shitty city). We were charged on a narrow trail. I had to choose between pushing my grandmother over to run faster, or getting trampled. She was an active elder and everything. But not as fast as a 14 year old. So obviously I got trampled.

I remember the force knocking me flat, sliding forward on my back, and the huge silhouette of moose belly against the cloudy sky. Before she started stomping and spinning, which I just went fetal position.

She ended up stomping through my thigh that first stomp, didn't break anything (idk how). She missed my nethers by about 3 inches and missed my artery by about 1/4 an inch.

Luckily my grandmother was a calm cool collected doctor. She knew it missed the artery and assured me I wouldn't die the ten minute walk back to the car. Didn't really calm me down.

That's one of the predominant experiences 🙃

Driving. Someone hit me and it should’ve killed me. I was hospitalized and everything. Couldn’t walk for 6 months.

Every day is a gift

Probably driving. There's been a lot of close calls. People are so unpredictable. I'm stupid, we're all stupid. Just apes with tools way too dangerous for our own good.

One time, I almost ended up in a knife fight, which would have been terrible. Thankfully, the other guy backed off, and nobody laid a finger on each other. It was such a stupid situation overall because it could have been avoided if I wasn't put into the situation to begin with.

There were a few times when I was very sick, and without modern medicine, I likely would have died.

Overall, nothing really very exciting or interesting.

Two years ago I was putting the dog to bed when an old spruce tree fell on the section of house we were in. We're talking a 60 foot/20m tall tree. Scared the hell out of us and the dog wouldn't sleep in the room that night. It wasn't until I went outside that I realized how close we had come. Luckily our house was made by dwarves or something (the low ceilings suddenly made sense) and aside from needing to replace roofing and some solar panels there was no damage.

Not at all close to death because I had a partner to help me out and was close to a shore near a road, but I think this is the closest I’ve come:

Capsized my touring kayak in glacial lake water without a wetsuit when a sudden gust of storm wind blew me over. Climbed back in to the kayak just fine but my cold cold arms couldn’t operate the bilge pump to empty out the water from the boat, so it was unsteady and I just blew over again.

The shore was not far but when I got there I found my insulated pants I chose for just this just-in-case were not at all the right gear; not warm at all when wet and the strong storm winds kept freezing me. (No rain — just big giant wind gusts out of nowhere)

Lesson learned: when you’re kayaking dress for the water temperature as if you’re planning to fall in because you might. Even if it’s sunny out.

Swallowed mud while on a scout camp once.

When a cop choked me till I blacked out. Thank God there were people there to stop him.

I remember thinking "I guess I'm dying now"