What's the luckiest thing that's ever happened to you?

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I booked something via TopCashback and it was cancelled but they paid the bonus regardless. £40. I reckon that's the luckiest I've been.

You?

DH died recently away from home. Before I knew he had died I got a phone call from an unknown number, which I answered even though I don't usually, it was a random cyclist who had found DH's phone at the side of the road. I assumed he had dropped it and not realised. The cyclist kindly posted it back to me. Later that day I received the news that DH had died. We have a lot of unanswered questions about what happened, but would have so many more if this person had not found the phone, managed to work out who to call and posted it back. It would have been lost or, if DH had had it with him, the police would have it now, and it is proving impossible to get in touch with the police about getting his belongings back. This is a very outing story, but I am so grateful to that cyclist and consider myself very lucky that he found it.

Also, when I was very young the glass roof of a shopping arcade fell in on me, my mum and my sister who was a baby at the time. We were all completely fine.

To be born to my lovely late parents.
To be born at a time where further education was ‘free’.
To be a young woman before social media and celebrity ‘culture’.
I ran to hop onto a tube train just before it pulled out of kings cross the evening of the ‘87 fire, just moments before the tragedy started.

badly i am so sorry. Support.

Me and a chap I was dating went to a casino, put a quid we found on the floor in a fruit machine and won £2k! Never been lucky since but that was fabulous as was a skint single mum student at the time.

@badlydrawnbear sorry to hear this. Sending you hugs and 💐

Went out for a drink for a friend’s birthday. The evening escalated somewhat, thanks to a lot of shots and her very gorgeous brother turning up. I had to do the walk of shame from his flat to work the next morning, meaning I wasn’t on my usual tube train to work from Finsbury Park to Piccadilly Circus, and missed the 7/11 bombings. So basically my life was saved by a one night stand.

Met a random girl on a night out in freshers week. Got wasted, lost my group, couldn't remember how to get back to halls, so went back to her room to crash.
Met one of her friends the next morning and became great friends with her also.
10 years later went to the friends wedding and got together with (and ultimately married) the best man!

Some wonderful stories on here. Thank you all for sharing

DH is getting through his 9 lives...

He had a cardiac arrest a few years ago, which very few people survive outside hospital. Those that do often suffer hypoxic brain damage with life changing results.

He was at a festival and collapsed without warning. He was with a group of nursing colleagues and in a tent next door to St John's Ambulance with a defibrillator. Consequently he was down for the shortest time and made a full physical and cognitive recovery. Subsequently he's running a busy department at our local hospital.

If he'd been anywhere else, I dread to think of the outcome.

There was also a very scary incident with an elephant when he was 9, but that's another story.

Plus he was 15 minutes ahead of the Aldgate East tube bombings.

The flying implement hit my ear and skull rather than eye or neck. I saw movement out of the corner of my eye and I was ducking and turning away. I could have been one of the two or three women murdered a week if I had not ducked. I could have been blind in one eye if I had not turned away I only have a scar on my ear as they glued it back together.
There but for the grace of God go I.

When the missold PIP compensation scheme was running we put a claim in via a company who do the work for you. We were awarded £1,800 and were thrilled. Some weeks later the company contacted us to say they thought we had a good case for more compensation and they could put our case before the financial ombudsman. DH said he wasn't bothered as it meant a lot of admin, finding old statements, verifying loads of dates and transactions going back over 15 years, getting letters from the bank and a solicitor and we probably wouldn't get much more compensation anyway. I persuaded him to follow it through and then we both forgot about it.

Then lockdown struck in March last year and our business was badly affected in the short term. Like a miracle we received an email saying we'd won our case for further compensation and had been awarded £32,000. I kept staring at the email thinking it must be £3,200. I've never been so stunned. It saved our bacon at a very stressful time.

I got a £40,000 scholarship to study abroad on the basis of a letter that took me ten minutes to write and a large dose of chutzpah

I got my current job by messaging my (now) boss on LinkedIn and saying I was looking for work at his company, was he hiring? Yes, he says, I'm just putting out an advertisement tomorrow for the exact role you're looking for.
Job is in a tropical paradise.