When did sheer luck save you from catastrophe?

So I would say I was around 10 years old and my family decides to take the dog for a walk.

I decide I want to rollerblade and make big circles around my family as they walk.

At one point I end up a block ahead of my family and a rusty beat-up truck pulls up and stops.

And a guy jumps out.

I remember him having a super short

beard. He says, hey kid, check this out. And he pulls out a skateboard and rides it on the street and

says, pretty cool skateboard, huh kid? You want it? I, being completely happy with my rollerblades,

say, no thank you. He says, come on, it's free,

just come over here and take it. I said, no, I like my rollerblades. At this point, he looks down

the street and sees my family walking up it. Without saying anything to me, he throws his skateboard

in the back, jumps in his truck and drives away. I never thought it was weird, didn't

tell my parents, and in my head it was like, some dude just tried to give me a skateboard I didn't

want. Ten years later, I'm like, holy frick, thank God I didn't freaking like skateboards. In short,

didn't get kidnapped because I thought skateboards suck.

Finding out from an auntie, from my dad's side, that my parents were going to let my

mum's sister and husband adopt me as a baby because they were childless for a long time.

If the transaction happened, it would have been kept a secret.

Thank goodness it never happened.

The woman is a nutcase and the husband ended up divorcing her after they had a son.

Their kid grew up whacked and feral and my parents became his guardian. The poor kid didn't even know how to wipe his butt and had to be spoon fed at age 10.

This one happened to someone else, but it's still interesting. I'm 16 years old and last year when I was walking home from school,

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