What do I need to do to you people?

Do you need a telegram?

I'm trying to teach you a lesson.

I'm Angela Duckworth.

I'm Stephen Dubner.

And you're listening to No Stupid Questions.

Today on the show, how does facing death change your life?

You're with a person who already was an ex-boyfriend.

Yeah, I know.

That's near death right there.

Also, should we be more concerned about things that are high impact or high probability?

Would you rather take a chance that there's a nuclear war or have nobody in America ever wear a seatbelt again?

So, Angela, I recently had a near-death experience, and if I died, it would have been not funny,

exactly, but at least like an O. Henry short story, because I almost got killed in a traffic accident while

driving back from getting my second COVID vaccine shot.

Oh, that would have been a great short story.

Right?

I would have been willing to die for that story, but I didn't, alas.

Dard it.

So we have this lame version of the story in which the protagonist doesn't even die.

But anyway,

I got my vaccine early in the morning on a Sunday morning in Queens, which was about a 35, 40-minute drive from where I live. And I'm driving back. And I'm on the Cross Bronx Expressway, which is

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