tragedy/shocker
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Horrible stories, but they make mine seem petty in comparison, and I guess I'm lucky for that. Here's a l_o_n_g list:
• Biggest tragedy is watching my mother slowly withering away with cancer. The flipside is, I've discovered that she has superpowers I never knew of.
• Biggest shocker... probably watching two guys down a hill on a bike way too fast. They yawed of the road out in the ditch and the guy at the front flew over the handlebars and cracked his skull against a tree just a couple of feets away from me. He survived. I remember the sound and running around to nearby houses, ringing doorbells frantically and watching elderly people look out the window like I was some sort of burglar.
• When I was about 6yo a guy at a playground started strangling me for no apparent reason. My sister and her friend saved me somehow. I later learned he had some issues.
• At about the same age I was playing in a heap of snow and a delivery truck passed by slowly. I slided down and in between the trucks front and rear axles and then out between the left and right rear wheel. It happened to fast for me to get scared but I didn't play there anymore.
• At the last day of our last period in camp in the army, we were all happy to be going home soon, although noboby of us had been aloud to sleep enough the last week. 1hr before we were to drive home we learned that four of our colleagues had crashed into a truck and the two up in front had died instantly. The driver fell asleep at the wheel. The commanding officers had totally disrespected the ammount of sleep us drivers needed (even according to the law) and these two soldiers died because of it. (And our country hasn't been at war in over a hundered years.)
• A part tragedy, part shocker was watching my girlfriends father, who had been a father figure and role model to me, turn in to a complete childish idiot a-hole after the end of my girlfriends parents perfect marriage - which he ended.
(•) I also had a mini-shock this morning as I woke up really early to the doorbell ringing, the sound of someone peeping through the mail slot and then checking if the door was locked. Still don't know what that was about, a burglar maybe.