Note: The below article mentions sexual assault.
over 7,000 people provided their answers.
Here’s what they had to say:
1.
“My paranoia about a strange guy in a car kept my house from flooding.
So we decided to go to the rental for Christmas Eve.
My wife and daughter were taking one car, and I was taking the other.
Given the cold weather, it seemed odd.
“I was scheduled for a mammogram when I got to 50.
And I also thought it was not that important.
But a year later, they sent me the invitation again.
“I expected a letter telling me that they had found nothing.
But in fact, they did find something that needed further investigation.
It turned out to be slow-growing breast cancer.
One year earlier, it would not have been there yet.
And one year later, it would have been much larger and possibly needed chemo as well as surgery.
But as it was, they could just cut it out, and that was that.”
u/P44
3.
“I once was asked if I could give someone a ride home from a local convenience store.
Normally, I would say no, but I decided to be nice that day.
The person said, ‘You don’t have your wallet on you?’
I said, ‘Nah.’
I thought it was weird, but I didn’t think too hard about it.”
Based on the video, the dog got at least four good bites in.”
u/0WattLightbulb
5.
“As a manager, I noticed my team was getting saddled with harder work than the other teams.
I informed my boss, but she laughed at me and sent me packing.
Fast forward two years.
His rapport with her is significant as he works the same shift, so she looks into it.
We were totally joking because we have never had any policies on either of us.
He got sick and passed away two months later.
The money saved my butt.
I tell everyone to get life insurance.
Its so very important.”
u/adoglovingartteacher
7.
“I was coming home from sledding when I was six years old.
Just my dad and I were in the old Ford Explorer.
Dad won, and I wore the seatbelt.
He forgot to put his on.”
“About 20 years ago, I almost stopped to help a stranded motorist.
I saw a highway patrol behind me and knew he would stop.
The ‘stranded’ motorist was an escaped prisoner looking for another car to steal.”
u/zantilley
9.
“I run a reptile and exoticanimalrescue in South Texas.
We are having very cold weather.
The heat had stopped working.
We ended up having to move all the reptiles to my house.
They would have died.
It’s crowded as fuckkkk but everyone is alive.
“I helped a victim of human trafficking get to a shelter.
u/PMME_ur_lovely_boobs
12.
I smelled gas at midnight.
That was a scary one.”
“I bought a generator 15 years ago because a hurricane was forecasted.
I drove three hours to get it but didn’t lose power that month.
My hubby rolled his eyes.
u/Lefty-boomer
14.
“Closing the curtains.
I’m thinking to myself, I’ve lost it, and it’s probably nothing.
It nags me the rest of the episode, so I close them.
He would then sexually assault and rob them.
He hit my next-door neighbor at the time.”
Per usual, I was being overworked.
I had over nine patients in the ER.
One patient had cancer and hadn’t been feeling well.
The doctor insisted he was fine.
He started complaining of feeling super tired and off.
We will get you home once the doctor discharges you.'
Just to cover my ass, I took his vitals.
His blood pressure was 70s/40s.”
The doctor felt I was overreacting, but they repeated my vitals and did a Stat scan.
We were able to stabilize and ship him to a bigger hospital.
It felt really, really good.
u/nobasicnecessary
16.
“A classmate and I swapped clinical days for my sister’s wedding.
I emailed my professor and clinical instructor about the swap, and they both replied that it was fine.
Suddenly, it wasn’t a problem anymore.”
u/Raebee_
17.
He had hit the age where we could not have him on our medical insurance anymore.
