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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?

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RockinHippy · 16/09/2016 21:16

I have quite a few of these sorts of near misses

Walking along a country lane, car comes out of nowhere & hits the tree right where I was standing a second earlier. Devine intervention got me out of that one alright.

I was having fun & had ridden too far out on a jet ski in the West Indies, when suddenly something huge & dark with a shark fin suddenly appeared from nowhere started to rise up under/next to me, tipping the jet ski - I somehow managed to keep it together enough to power up & get the hell out of there, but I was so shaken that I didn't stop when I hit the beach, thankfully no real damage done to me or Jet Ski. For years I had no clue what that creature was, but it scared the life out of me. I found out later after seeing a picture online, that it was a whale shark - bar the size, perfectly harmless & I now wish I had hung around.

I was passenger in a car that had a blow out coming into a roundabout at 60+ mph, the car left the road ploughing into small trees that covered the large round about. It was all in slow motion trees bending away & even though it was (thankfully) early hours of the morning, the lane of traffic coming in at the other side was busy & fast moving. We headed towards it & I remember realising that we would hit it, the driver wasn't wearing a seat belt & wouldn't stand a chance. In those split seconds I braced myself to pin them in place as a human seat belt - somehow those last few saplings brought the car to a halt, just as it left the other side of the roundabout/hillock & we both walked away without a scratch

Very first package holiday allowed to Cuba - holiday from hell in so many ways, but a great experience too, thanks to the people we met. On returning home, once we had got past the 48 hour delay dumped at an airport with no services, all of the passengers had gone through to board the plane & they held me back, forcing my friend at gun point to go through & get on the plane without me. They were querying my visa, insisting I had arrived 6 months ago, when I had been there only 2 weeks, getting very shouty & waving guns around in my face. They had got annoyed with my friend when he had tried to back me up & forced him through, I told him yo go as I was scared for him. Half ranting at me in Spanish, half broken English,neither of which I fully understood, they forced me through to the side of the plane & made me climb up a ramp & get my luggage out of the hold of the plane. All the time point a gun at me & at one point lifting my skirt up with it, whilst a gang if young guys stood underneath laughing. It was terrifying, I knew they were keeping me in Cuba, alone, but didn't understand fully as to why & Though I don't scare easily the blatant sexual harassment by a gang of about 15 young guys gave the whole thing an even more sinister edge, I don't actually know how I managed to keep it together as they ignored everything I said, no matter what language I tried to use & just laughed or waved a gun at me. I was then marched across the tarmac into a room with 2 very official looking guards & several Cuban police. Still nobody was explaining to me & still I was trying to get across I was on holiday for only 2 weeks, falling apart more & more by the second - All of a sudden one of the Police picked up my bags, smiled & said to follow him & lead me back onto the plane where there was a huge cheer. He put my luggage back in the hold, bowed & waved & walked off - that was it, they let me goConfused. Turned out my friend had told the other passengers what had happened & every other passenger refused to sit down on the plane until the let me go home with them Smile

I have more I might add later

HarryPottersMagicWand · 16/09/2016 21:18

Oh and witnessing my 3 year old brother choking on a sweet when I was 11. He was blue. I'm still terrified of choking and drum it into the DCs about chewing their food and have only just stopped cutting grapes for 8 year old.

mum2Bomg · 16/09/2016 21:18

Walking down a country lane when I was 19 and seeing a man walking towards me, trying to hide a handgun he was carrying...the police never found him but I had to walk past him and was terrified.

itfcbabe · 16/09/2016 21:19

Being told by my brother in law my dad was dead,I was 20 and 7 months pregnant with DS2.

2 years later being told by a nurse my mum had hours to live, I kissed her goodbye she was in and out of consciousness but she stroked my hand with her thumb, 3 hours later my sister phoned me to say she had passed.

I was onlyn23 by the time I lost both my parents.

BabooshkaKate · 16/09/2016 21:22

I was given drugs and almost raped. My friends said it was "my fault" because I shouldn't do drugs 🌚

mum2Bomg · 16/09/2016 21:23

Falling asleep in a taxi and waking up with the driver's hand up my top - didn't know what to do. Luckily, after freezing, I found I got very angry, demanded he take me home for free, and reported him. Then fell apart.

Lunchboxlewiswillyoumarryme · 16/09/2016 21:24

Wow,everyone,what brave people you all are...goes to show when life is shite and we think the world is against us,other people are going through rough times as well...after reading some of your experiences I realise I have nothing to complain about.and need to woman the fuck up....( don't like the phrase man up)..thankyou for sharing yr experiences,I'm in awe of what some of you have coped with X

spanky2 · 16/09/2016 21:25

My mum chasing me to my room and trying to beat down my door to get me. Being strangled before I escaped and raped by my first boyfriend.

JammyDodger16 · 16/09/2016 21:26

Being chased down the road when I was 20 and having to crawl under a car. I listened to two men saying they were going to 'RIP those bitches apart' if they found us. Awful

spanky2 · 16/09/2016 21:29

When I was about six when a family friend French kissed me. He had a serious illness which I thought I might catch. My parents later told me they had noticed my fear of him but didn't think to ask me. Apparently he did it because he always wanted a daughter.

GETTINGLIKEMYMOTHER · 16/09/2016 21:29

6.1 earthquake in a country where they'd not long had a massive one.

We were on 5th floor of a hotel. Woke to find a giant had got hold of the bed and was shaking it hard, or at least that was what it felt like. Hangers rattling like mad in the wardrobe. Went on for what seemed ages, but in fact was probably about a minute.

I was scared half to death. Dh afterwards pretended he hadn't been scared at all. It was merely 'interesting'. Ha!

Waiting4cakes · 16/09/2016 21:31

Third scariest was giving birth to my eldest. I was in my mid teens. I had no real idea what giving birth was going to be like. Exh and the midwife were very unsupportive and I just wanted my mum but she wanted nothing to do with me.

Second (which is probably linked in part to the third) was being alone with my eldest whilst at my worst with depression. Eldest wouldn't nap and kept crying and I honestly thought I was either going to kill him or myself. Luckily a neighbour popped round just before I did anything awful but it still scares me to think how close I was.

The scariest was probably a few years later. I was pregnant and my kids were eatingdinner in the same room. When abusive exh completely lost it with me. He was being violent with me when one of my DCs screamed at him not to hurt me and he git her so hard that she hit the floor and didn't move for (what was probably a few seconds) but I thought she was dead. Luckily she was just stunned I think. But it was an awful shock and I left him straight away. But it was really scary.

beardedladydragon · 16/09/2016 21:45

Walking home with my sister from my father's wake in Portugal. It was late at night and deserted. A car full of young men drove past us a number of times so we ran down an alleyway into a residential area. They followed us and were driving round and round. We jumped into someone's garden and hid but still had to run back to our apartment.

We were on our last day of holiday in Spain. The only ones around the pool. Dh had gone to the toilet with ds' whilst I got dressed with dd(2). Something made me look up as I was getting my clothes on. All I could see was a towel floating on the top of the water. Dd had been walking about with the towel on her head and fallen in the pool. There was no splash and she didn't scream. I dived in fully clothed and fished her out. She was fine but for days after I kept having visions of what could have happened.

AGruffaloCrumble · 16/09/2016 21:50

My entire pregnancy with DD2 who had a chromosonal abnormality and passed at 16 weeks. My CVS was the worst experience of my life.
DD3 was an undiagnosed face (chin) presentation. Red button of doom hit, senior midwife that was a family friend in floods of tears. Thinking that I was going to lose another baby. Thankfully she's snoring away next to me.

MrsDc7 · 16/09/2016 21:50

Omg some of these are unbelievable. You brave women Flowers xxx

bellasuewow · 16/09/2016 21:55

Dexter Flowers

Flappyhat · 16/09/2016 21:59

My older dsis walking out of my mums bedroom and saying to me "don't panic but mum has killed herself" I was 16 & it shattered my heart. Since then I do not give a shit about myself. I love my DC but will never get close to anyone ever again. They all leave you in the end.

GlitteryFluff · 16/09/2016 22:01

Some of these are heartbreaking Flowers

Scariest for me is DS escaping out of the flat at 18months old. We had just moved into a new flat and didn't realise he knew how to unlock and open the front door. I left him in the living room watching tv whilst I changed from pjs to clothes in bedroom. Come back and he was gone and front door was open. I was confused my brain couldn't catch up. Looked outside and couldn't see him. Ran back in and couldn't find him. Ran out and looked down the stairs expecting to see him dead at the bottom (concrete stairs and never had walked down on his own before) couldn't see him so ran back indoors couldn't find him. So ran out onto street asking everyone if they'd seen him. Nobody had seen him. There was so many ways he could have gone I didn't know how I was going to find him. Called police. Across the road in front of our flat is a nature reserve with lakes so I ran there and couldn't see him. Ran back to try a different route. I'm now thinking someone must have taken him, they've come into the flat and taken him. Then as blasé as anything he comes strutting back in his pjs and barefoot from the nature reserve and across the road back to the flat.

Later hat day we got a chain fitted to the front door and gps tracking for DS
He's just starting to be able to touch the chain now at 2 so this weekend we're getting something to go higher up out of reach.

bellasuewow · 16/09/2016 22:02

Spanky2 Flowers and babooshka Flowers they are not your friends

QueenSpartacusOfTheAndals · 16/09/2016 22:09

2004 Boxing Day tsunami.

Mojito6 · 16/09/2016 22:12

Mine was when my three year old was a few months old. He stopped breathing in his cot, luckily we noticed and managed to stir him or whatever. He stopped breathing for a good couple of minutes. I'm forever thankful we noticed he stopped breathing immediately if not I wonder of things would have turned out very differently. Ambulance were called but luckily there was no lasting damage

Eminybob · 16/09/2016 22:13

Some awful stuff on here Flowers to you all.

I'm very lucky that I have not had anything truly bad happen to me. I did have a scary moment a couple of days ago but luckily it ended ok.

We were at Butlins this week, there's a toddler funfair with a bit tall set of metal stairs leading to some slides. DS who is 2 had been climbing the stairs quite easily, going up and down, up and down. I had been a bit worried about him cos he can be clumsy but he seemed fine. Then one time, he turned around from the top step to look for me, lost his balance and started tumbling down the stairs hard first. I have never moved so fast, I had visions of him tumbling all the way down, but luckily he stopped himself after about 3 stairs. I flew up them and retrieved him. He was crying but unharmed.
My heart was in my mouth I have never been so frightened, he would have been badly hurt if he had come all the way down. Shaking now just thinking about it.

Eminybob · 16/09/2016 22:15

*big tall
And
*head first

isthatcoffee · 16/09/2016 22:37

We had gone to visit my dad in Berlin, jumped in a hire car, headed to a local park, I was seated in the back with my 2 dd, dad driving and dp in passenger seat, we were chatting away and dad slowed down on account of the traffic in front, we were on a 3 lane road, I looked up and seen a man preparing to cross, from the left hand side of the road, he had a white tshirt on, it caught my eye, then I looked away, we heard a thud - the 2 lanes of traffic on the right hand side cleared, and their he was lying on the road. He'd ran between moving vehicles and been hit by a taxi which had thrown him under a truck. He just lay there, I'm thinking he's not getting up, my partner shouted cover the children's eyes, he moved, he tried to get up, people ran and tried to help him, it was a shock, he was in a bad way, his White tshirt was now red. he was so injured it was clear he wasn't going to survive.

Larrytheleprechaun · 16/09/2016 22:39

Bad car accident where my friend died and I later spent 5 months in hospital. Actually it was not scary at the time as I was only 17 but now it scares me shitless at how ill I was.

Son with croup, getting bad very quickly and the following panic when I brought him to the Doctor on Call.

Being told unexpectedly our 64 year old father had only a short time to live and knowing we had to look him in the eye and try to carry on as close to normal as we could. That was Sunday and he was gone Friday night. I wanted to stop being an adult that week :(

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