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What's the scariest thing that's ever happened to you? (NON WOO)

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FlyHighLittleBee · 16/09/2016 19:51

Enjoying the woo thread so much but I've finished it now so thought I would reenact another of my favourites.

So what's the scariest, non-woo situation you've even been in?

OP posts:
ghostyslovesheep · 16/09/2016 20:19

5 car motorway pile up - I was car 4

DD2 falling down stairs at 10 months

Dexterjamesmummy · 16/09/2016 20:19

Finding my baby dead in his cot, I was in the house alone, most terrifying moment I'll ever experience.

Madbengalmum · 16/09/2016 20:19

In a small boat in a storm force eleven storm in the middle of the sea at night. I thought we were going to die.

Niggit · 16/09/2016 20:20

I got dragged alongside my Dad's car.

He was dropping me off at primary school after lunch, and instead of slamming the ar door like I usually did, I shut it by putting my fingers round the handle. My hand got stuck, and not realising, he drove off, and dragged me about 50 yards in the gutter before he heard me screaming. I was ok apart from the friction burns, but my poor Dad took years to get over it.

Cellardoor23 · 16/09/2016 20:22

Oh my god Dextor That is awful!

Bearfrills · 16/09/2016 20:22

DexterJamesMummy Sad you poor love, I am so sorry for your loss.

AnnaMarlowe · 16/09/2016 20:22

First IVF egg collection. It was completely fine but I was quietly terrified beforehand. I didn't tell DH or the staff how scared I was but I really had to grit my teeth to walk through the hospital. Second round was fine.

Also fell down the stairs carrying one of my babies. She was fine and I wasn't badly hurt but I remember the terror as we fell.

AnnaMarlowe · 16/09/2016 20:23

Dexter I am so very sorry. Flowers

Spudlet · 16/09/2016 20:24

Oh Dexter SadFlowers

I thought I'd lost DS in the cinema the other day - took him to a baby showing and he got tired near the end so went and put him in the pram which was at the front to one side and rocked him to sleep. Then at the end went back up for my bag. When I got back down (a matter of seconds) I couldn't see the pram... I think one of the other parents had perhaps moved it over a bit, or maybe it was just because it was dark. But for that split second, until I saw him, I thought he was gone. So scary.

NannyR · 16/09/2016 20:25

Camping in a national park in Uganda and waking up in the middle of the night to hear an animal snuffling around and rubbing up against the tent. This was after we had been warned not to go to the loo alone after dark because of the rare chance of animals coming into camp and we had heard lions roaring in the distance (apparently a good few km away).

I was convinced I was going to be eaten by a lion. I laid as still as a statue and hardly dared to breathe and made my peace with god and after what seemed like an eternity (but was probably 10mins) it went away.

MaddyHatter · 16/09/2016 20:28

Driving up the motorway at 70mph, in the dark and rain, and narrowly avoiding being hit by a driver doing 90mph in the wrong direction on my side of the motorway.

Found out later, it was an old lady who'd got confused and panicked, but she missed me by inches, if i'd chosen not to pull back in to the slow lane, she'd have hit me head on.

The moment i realised the lights approaching me were actually on MY side of the road, was the scariest fucking thing ever.

I had my mom in the car with me, i think if i hadn't had to get her home, i'd have pulled over and had a massive panic attack, as it was, i held it together until we got to hers 15 minutes later and then fell apart.

CrazyDuchess · 16/09/2016 20:28

Dexter Flowers

AndersArms · 16/09/2016 20:29

Finding DD and DS1 climbing onto a window ledge to jump off it. Window ledge was on the first floor. Window was DD or DS1 sized. And wide open. Still feel sick with terror whenever I recall it.

When I was at uni one of my friends got too drunk early on so we put her to bed before going out. Just before the taxi came I went to check on her. She had stabbed herself in a suicide attempt. There was a lot of blood and when I went to try and staunch it she launched herself at me. That was scary.

Flowers to many of you up thread for your experiences.

Lj8893 · 16/09/2016 20:31

On holiday as a teenager with my cousin. We had fallen victim to cocktail fishbowls and we're making our way back to our hotel. Group of local guys were trying to chat us up and then one of the barmen from where we had been came running up from behind us and said something I didn't understand but made the group of guys disappear quite quickly. He then pulled out a whopping knife and told us he has told them he had this and was protecting us.

CigarsofthePharoahs · 16/09/2016 20:32

The day ds1 "went missing".
I'll start off by saying he was fine all along, it was all my Mums fault.
We were leaving church and going to my mums house for lunch. We left with ds1 holding dh's hand and I was pushing ds2 in his buggy.
I was briefly distracted on the way out then hurried to catch dh up. He was waiting by the car all alone. He asked if ds1 was with me.
Obviously I said no, he was with dh last I saw.
Apparently ds1 had run back and I hadn't seen him.
We went to look for him. I assumed he'd found his friends and was playing, only we couldn't find him anywhere. The longer we looked, the more sick I felt. Half the church were searching in the end!
After half an hour I terrifyingly concluded he wasn't on the church site and had either wandered off or been taken.
I went to sit in our car and I was shaking.
This was the point my phone found some signal and a message from my mum arrived. She'd been leaving church and getting in her car just as ds1 ran back from dh and he'd asked to go in her car, he said he'd asked Daddy and it was ok.
Angry Angry Angry
My mum didn't think to check, but only sent a message when she got home.
I'll never forget the fear.
Also the terror of hallucinations brought on by severe sleep deprivation. Ds2 is to blame for that though!

CigarsofthePharoahs · 16/09/2016 20:35

Dexter Flowers

MsJamieFraser · 16/09/2016 20:35

Seeing my ds2 and dh on fire Sad was hell on earth

seeing my son not breath and giving him CPR and 2 epi pens, and praying the ambulance would not be much longer.

my dad was an heavy drinker on his death bed he asked for me to get him a gun so he could kill himself as he did not want to suffer going through liver and renal failure.

ItsJustNotRight · 16/09/2016 20:36

Oohhhh, I think this thread is scarier than the Woo one.

taxworries · 16/09/2016 20:36

Camping on the roof of the car (roof tent) in south west Africa about three hours form anywhere and anyone, in a canyon. Woken up by the most horrendous thunder and lightning, sounded like the sky was tearing open above us. It was so horribly frightening. We dithered for about ten mins then climbed down the metal ladder and into the car which was the right thing as I learnt later (Faraday cage), not that we had much choice.

dlwelly · 16/09/2016 20:37

I was walking home from a friends after a few drinks and came across a man - flat on his back and not moving in the middle of a patch of grass.

I knew not to go near him in case it was a trap and screamed so loudly at him to try and get a response. He didn't move so I called an ambulance, as I was on the phone he sat bolt upright and sprinted towards me and got right up in my face. He was so angry that I was talking about him on the phone and I was absolutely petrified.

I managed to convince him that I was actually on the phone to my mum and I was just calling her to let her know I was on the way home and he ran off.

I was so scared I hung up on 999 and spoke to my mum on the phone the whole way home.

I didn't realise the call handler would follow up on it - they'd heard what was going on and sent police officers out to make sure I was ok.

There is no logic to the way I behaved and I'm lucky it didn't turn out worse. It was a good lesson in making sure you have a way to get home safely, especially at night if you've had a few drinks.

Jemimapuddleduk · 16/09/2016 20:38

So, so sorry Dexter.

Mine is my baby boy being diagnosed with acute myeloid Leukemia. There have been times in the last 8 months when I thought we would lose him. He is in remission now but sometimes that fear returns and it is all consuming.

lalalalyra · 16/09/2016 20:39

The day DD2 had her first seizure. It was horrific and then I thought about the fact that a lot of children have febrile convulsions. Phoned my Nana who said she'd come round. Then I realised as seconds were passing (not many in reality - but it felt like forever) that it wasn't stopping and calling an ambulance. It was terrifying because it just came from nowhere it seemed.

The second time was when the girls were around 3 1/2. We were in the supermarket and DD2 had a seizure. I knelt down to deal with it and could see DD1 (the girls are twins) out of the corner of my eye so I was happy she was safe. Lots of shop staff and people were milling around offering help etc. Once DD2 stopped fitting I looked up and realised that the child I could see from the corner of my eye belonged to a nurse who'd stopped to help, she just had the same jacket - it wasn't even the exact same colour as DD1's, I just thought I recognised it. DD1 was nowhere to be seen. They shut the shop doors to search for her and after 15 minutes decided to call the police. Thankfully before they arrived someone found her trying to get a teddy off a shelf in the toy aisle - she usually got her sister's bear if it happened at home so she'd gone off to find one. I was physically sick because there was a busy car park and taxi rank outside the shop, I was convinced she had wandered outside.

Longdistance · 16/09/2016 20:39

The earthquake in Turkey 1999. I was 15 storeys up in a hotel in the middle of the night.

I'm sure I've got more, but I've had a few 🍷

RuggerHug · 16/09/2016 20:40

Dexter and MsJamie SadFlowers

Cellardoor23 · 16/09/2016 20:41

I think another one that has to be up there was watching my DM die in hospital. She went into hospital with a non-life threatening illness and caught pneumonia. She died in front of me after they turned the ventilator off.

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