To ask your 'that was lucky' moments ?

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I'll go first.

Had a burst of energy and kids in a good mood so we baked together then I spritzed the house from top to toe whilst waiting for the oven. Angelic children being on absolute best behaviour due to the prospect of cookies.

Then the doorbell rang as family (who live nowhere near us) were passing by and decided to see if we were in.

Honestly I looked like Mary Poppins 😂 which is not normal. Far more normal to be a mix between stig of the dump and a very shouty lady!!

That must have been a good feeling!

I almost didn’t buy a parking ticket at 18.15 because it was free parking from 18.30, and it was £1.75 for 15 mins. Sucked it up and bought a ticket.

Came back a couple of hours later and the car near us had a parking ticket issued in that 15 minute window.

I was baking yesterday and suddenly realised the recipe required 7g of yeast. Rifled through the cupboards and found one packet at the back!

I think it was too old though as my dough did not rise at all! 😂

The other night - couldn't sleep (again) - but 4:30 am was exactly the time the plumbing spectacularly failed. Minor spillage would otherwise have been massive flood. Dehumidifier is currently running overtime, but it was such a lucky escape.

I have quite a nice car that my niece loves and she asked me to drive her and my sister to her wedding.

I booked it in to be properly cleaned inside and out the day before.

Noon the day it was supposed to be cleaned the person cancelled. Now I have to confess my car is a bit of a shithole situation most of the time. So I panicked but another company/bloke took pity on me and came and did it on a Friday late afternoon, absolute legend.

Phew!!!

Oh that's good karma right there!

I'm incredibly impressed you can clean your whole house in the 20 mins or so it takes to bake cookies!!

Mine's a bit more grim - my first rented house after leaving uni, several decades ago, sitting in the front room with one of those old fashioned gas fires on, getting really dozy and drifting off on the sofa. A cat fight outside the window disturbed me just enough to think I should turn the fire off and go to bed. A few days later on a routine annual service the gas fire was condemned and the gas engineer told me I could have died from carbon monoxide poisoning if I'd left it on and fallen asleep.

Children having fun on swings in garden.
Called them in for a snack.
Two minutes late, massive crash from garden... a tree had come down on their swing set.

Wow you were so lucky!!!!

'Spritzed' is very much the term here...I did the bathroom, wiped the sides in the kitchen, whipped the vacuum around and did a token amount of dusting (I never do this usually, wondering if there was some sort of Spidey sense at work??!). The bits which kinda make it look okay for guests. Just didn't know I was expecting any.

The cookies also needed to cool so was more like 35 minutes. The house smelled great!!!

Shiiiiiiiiiiit!!!!!!

Certainly was! Oddly, I didn't think too much of it at the time (the invincibility of youth!) but when I look back on it now it freaks me out.

Didn't mean that to sound like I didn't believe you BTW, it's just that I've just spent the weekend despairing at the state of my house and how long it'll take to get it vaguely presentable!

I'm very absent minded. I once locked my keys in the car because I got distracted. Unfortunately I hadn't switched the engine off so the car was sat there in the car park with the engine running all day while I was in work. Luckily for me it happened the day after I had had the car serviced so the spare key was still in my handbag (saved me having to wait for the RAC). When I opened the car door the heat nearly knocked me over and there was hardly any petrol left.

Many years ago, DH and I were on a beach directly below a cliff face in Corfu. We decided to go in the sea (which is something I rarely do) and once we were in the water, a large quantity of rock suddenly broke away from the cliff face and landed on the beach, inches away from our towels and picnic! Felt like a very close shave so after that, we very quickly packed our stuff up and headed away!

I was driving, with the family in the car- looking for a turning (across the road) and not sure where it was, so going slowly.

I find the turning lane and get into it. Person behind me gets impatient and decides to overtake at 100 miles an hour just as I start to turn across the road.

If I had turned a moment sooner we would probably all be dead.

Ha I'm sure you weren't alone in that.

I didn't take it badly :) do tend to largely as assume people are being kind! You have my sympathies on the house though, it can be horrid when it feels overwhelming. I've been steadily declutttering and systemising for the last year (got way into Stacey Solomon!) in preparation to move. It's been a lot of effort, and still not done but have definitely got to the point where I'm wondering if we really do need a bigger house 😂 so that's something!!! Basically been doing it when there's been half an hour here and there so took forever.

Last week I was in lane 1 of a dual carriageway doing about 60-65mph. Registered out of the corner of my eye/ side window that the car in lane 2 was moving sideways towards me as it was passing at significantly higher speed. I autopiloted into braking hard and swerving left. The good luck was that I was in line with an empty layby which gave me space without hitting the kerb before I corrected back to a decent lane position.

DS who was in the front reckons that my swerve saved us from being side swiped. I was entirely in reflex mode.

The offending car carried on swerving down the road, it wasn't just an ignore blind-spot overtake.

A few weeks ago I was driving home. Because the road was wet, I pulled out more slowly than usual at an intersection into a major highway. (The green and green arrow lights were going my way.) Just as well, because a moron came screaming down the major road. If I'd gone at my usual pace (not fast, but I was slower than usual to avoid wheel spin) this through-the-red arsehole would have hit me.

I so need to do something like that! DS and I are actually not bad, but my DH and DD are natural born hoarders, so the house is awash with clutter, which then makes it difficult to clean. You had the right idea doing it before you moved - we moved 6 years ago now and we still have a big wall of boxes that we've never opened since they were packed in the last house 😱