What was the scariest moment of your life?

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  1. rivet3000 profile image57
    rivet3000posted 14 years ago

    I remember when my younger sister(rebel)
    and I went driving down this narrow road.
    I told her to be careful but she felt like
    zooming like a Indianapolis 500 speedcar
    and she was going 80 miles per hour.
    There was a hill approaching us and I told
    her to slow down.  She told me to relax;
    that she knew what she was doing.
    Like the Meatloaf song, Like a bat out of
    hell, a large van was coming straight for us.
    My sister flipped out, jerked the steering
    wheel hard to the right and we both
    found ourselves in the car at a 60 degree
    angle off the ground; a rocky ravine was
    right in our face.
    I told my sister to stay calm while I called
    for a tow truck.  If we slightly made a move
    I was sure that we'd be done for.
    Luckily we survived that harrowing ordeal
    but I will always be leery of being in the
    car with my wild sister.

    1. prettydarkhorse profile image55
      prettydarkhorseposted 14 years agoin reply to this

      I was crossing a street in a city and there was this speeding car nearly hit me by a hair....my elbow was bruised a bit, but i survived it....whew!!

    2. Chloe Comfort profile image61
      Chloe Comfortposted 14 years agoin reply to this

      Terrifying - just like out of a movie! I probably world have passed out just seeing that ravine in front of me. Glad you guys made it out okay. Hope your sister drives a little less crazy now :-)

      1. rivet3000 profile image57
        rivet3000posted 14 years agoin reply to this
        1. rivet3000 profile image57
          rivet3000posted 14 years agoin reply to this
          1. rivet3000 profile image57
            rivet3000posted 14 years agoin reply to this

            Yes, thank god we made it out alive; and yes, my younger sister has been more kinder on the gas pedal, LOL.

  2. Chloe Comfort profile image61
    Chloe Comfortposted 14 years ago

    I was in a large store shopping for a dress to wear to a wedding. There were millions of racks of dresses everywhere, as well as people. With me, I had my 3 year old son and 1 year old daughter (in a  stroller). One second he was there - the next he was gone. I called his name and kept calling. He didn't answer. I was practically having a heart attack. I was at the point of having the manager shut the doors when all of a sudden he popped out from a rack of dresses. Needless to say, I was overjoyed and extremely relieved! We had a nice long talk after that ;-) Nothing scarier that the thought of my child missing. I used to think those child leashes were barbaric - not any more.

    1. prettydarkhorse profile image55
      prettydarkhorseposted 14 years agoin reply to this

      oh that is definitely true.....you must had a very big sigh of relief whne you saw him..

      1. Chloe Comfort profile image61
        Chloe Comfortposted 14 years agoin reply to this

        You have no idea! I envisioned every tv show I'd seen about something like this. I had been looking for about 5 minutes (an eternity believe it or not) before he popped out at me. I was ready to stop anyone headin out the door, check every child - I shudder just remembering it.

        1. prettydarkhorse profile image55
          prettydarkhorseposted 14 years agoin reply to this

          I can feel for you, i have five children myself and I put always a wristband and a telephone number in there so if they are lost they can be easily traced...but they are grown up now,

  3. cassidydahustla profile image60
    cassidydahustlaposted 14 years ago

    How about someone pointing a gun in your head and asking you your money.Lesson in life when your  payday is on a thursday don't go at an ATM at midnight just be patient till the next day.That was the scariest day of my life

  4. profile image65
    Michael Achillesposted 14 years ago

    Toss-up between being shot and being hit by a dump truck..

    1. rivet3000 profile image57
      rivet3000posted 14 years agoin reply to this

      All I can say is OUCH!!  Sorry to hear about that; that would definitely been a scary and painful moment for me, no doubt; Thanks for sharing!

  5. donotfear profile image84
    donotfearposted 14 years ago

    The scariest moment of my life? When I faced my greatest phobia: the fear of heights.  The situation placed me in a warehouse on the second floor where I was directed to walk out the window onto the fireplace landing. I was being filmed by a camera crew. It was there, in that awful moment of realization, I knew I MUST face this thing, once and for all. I stepped out onto the fireplace landing with the worst feeling of dread I'd ever known.  I began to cry and pray as I slowly reached for the ladder.  I was to climb to the top, not knowing how high it was. I could only guess. With my eyes clenched tight, I fought, screamed, cried, prayed, sang while I slowly climbed all six flights of the fire escape.  It was the scariest moment of my life and lasted about 5 minutes. When I finally neared the top, I heard a voice say, "You're almost there..."  I was so relieved!  When I made it to the top, I lay flat on my stomach and couldn't move. They had to pull me off the landing I was so traumatized, but I did it!

  6. wyanjen profile image70
    wyanjenposted 14 years ago

    When Lake Huron freezes in winter, an ice wall develops along the shore. The winter in question, the wall was about 4 feet high.

    My brother and I found a break in the wall. It was pretty steep, but wide enough for a snowmobile to fit through wink.

    One night we only had one machine, so he was towing me on a sled that we had made using hockey sticks as runners. lol We rode through the break and down onto the ice. About ten feet from our only way back to shore, the sled I was riding on broke through the ice.

    My bro managed somehow (he is awesome) to keep the snowmobile on top of the broken ice. I held on for dear life. I'm sure it only took him a minute to get back on solid ice but for me time just stopped. The water was not deep enough that I would have drowned, but we would not have survived the cold water. There was no way to get back over the ice wall.

    Knowing that I had been completely underwater, he found the next closest break in the wall to get me back on shore. The next closest was 1.5 miles away. This of course put us back on land, but - we were 1.5 miles from home. He was going as fast as he could to get me home, and I was yelling at him to slow down - the faster we went, the colder I was LOL.

    Here is the lesson, winter people: a snowmobile will not break through weak ice as easily as a sled will. It is heavier, but it has much more surface contact to displace the weight.

    We then retired the hockey-stick sled.

  7. lrohner profile image69
    lrohnerposted 14 years ago

    When my youngest was maybe 1-1/2 or 2 years old. We were on vacation at Sesame Street Place in Pennsylvania. All of the characters were doing their daily parade through the park. When I looked down, my son was GONE out of his stroller. A frantic 20 minutes and tons of security guards later, he was found in the middle of a group of kids clutching Cookie Monster's leg! Trust me, those 20 minutes felt like a lifetime.

    1. wyanjen profile image70
      wyanjenposted 14 years agoin reply to this

      What a nightmare. Wow.

      He was having himself a good time though wink

 
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