To ask whether any seemingly innocuous decisions you have made may actually have saved your life or prevented injury

[Cheeseandlobster]

I once set my alarm wrong. I don't know why or how. But it went off 27 minutes after it should have done. I used to go running on the same route but when I got there the road was sealed off halfway by police. A car had pulled out on a bike and I could see debris strewn all over the road and pavement where I would have been and I am convinced I would have been caught up in it had I have set my alarm for the correct time.

Have any of you made an innocent decision or mistake that may have changed everything like this?

Mine isn't as dramatic as most.
I simply called my DDs (3&5) in from the garden earlier than usual one Saturday afternoon. Ten minutes later, a massive branch fell off the tree and crashed into their swings where they had been playing. The tree had appeared perfectly healthy (although later investigation found it was being eaten from the inside out by insects). They used to climb that tree too.

Getting goosebumps reading this thread.
It does make you wonder about fate/ intervention from above.

Not me personally but a friend was pulling into my house, it’s on a busy but poorly lit country road. As she stopped to turn right into my drive, a driver who was later found to have been on their phone ploughed into the back of her car at 50+ mph. It crushed the entire back of her car and she had to be cut from the wreck, this was the first night her son had stayed with his grandparents, he would normally have been sat in the back in his car seat and would have been without doubt crushed to death.

@Coronabollox that's fucking insane

Wow @CoronaBollox

When I was about 19, I was waiting in line for a taxi home after a night out (drinking). A car pulled up & asked me if I wanted a lift. He asked me where I was going & when I said, he said he was going to the same suburb. I don’t know why, but I turned to the person (stranger) standing next to me & asked if they thought I should go with the man. They (quite rightly) said no! So I didn’t. I am usually so sensible. I can’t even think about what may have happened had I gotten in the car.

Something inexplicable happened to me when I was visiting an Australian city several years ago.

It was my first time in that city and I had all kinds of plans for touristy things to do.

I was there for a week but for some reason I just did not want to leave my accommodation. Whenever I made plans to go outside and visit places I felt this weird feeling, like something bad might happen. It was as if something was keeping me where I was.

So I stayed indoors and worked on my laptop and towards the end of the stay was beating myself up for being silly and wasting my time in that amazing city.

One day before my stay ended, very close to my accommodation a girl was raped and murdered in a random attack.

On my last day, I went to put flowers on where they found her body.

I still don't understand what that feeling was about. It felt a bit like agoraphobia, but it wasn't something I have experienced before or since.

It really did shock the local community. By all accounts he had run through a couple of houses to escape the police, and before that was wandering around peoples gardens. Killed an animal first (if I remember rightly it was a cat?) The video footage from the helicopter, stating there is children in the garden always gives me chills.

Great thread, a bit like 'Sliding Doors'!