What do I need to do to you people? Do you need a telegram? I'm trying to teach you a lesson.

I'm Antilla 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 exploit friend.

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 everywhere seatbelt again?

So, Antilla, I recently had a near death experience.

And if I died, it would have been not funny exactly, but at least like a no-handry 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.

I'll start 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 usually a highway that travels at about half a mile an hour.

It's just always jammed up.

Okay.

But on a Sunday morning, it was flying.

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