4 times, and witnessed my brother 1 time.
1. Left work @ 2am with my roomie, we were in his firefly, I look to my right and these headlights are coming towards us really fast. I tell the driver to floor it, he does, but since its a firefly it does nothing but rev the engine. This truck missed the back end of the car by inches.
2. Was driving up north to a wedding when I was a kid (like 5), we were making a left hand turn off of the non-divided highway. Some idiot got the bright idea to pass the turning vehicle and plowed right into my door. Fortunately this was the 80s and cars were still built like tanks and we weren't seriously injured. But my door was caved in a couple feet and my mom spent hours picking the glass out of my hair.
3. Late night walk and was mugged. I was hit in the side of my knee from behind then in the head, police figure it was a bat. I escaped with a serious concussion and the loss of a wallet with maybe $5 in it.
4. Had a d-bag pull a gun on me when I confronted him about sexually assaulting my best friend. Fortunately he was more scared than I was and I got away without incident.
The other instance I was 9 and my brother was 6. He sat on the couch with a blank stare and wasn't responding to anyone speaking to him, my mom was freaking out screaming at him and he just stared. I phoned my uncle (before the days of 9-1-1 in my community) for help because I knew he worked at the hospital, my uncle took us there immediately and after a few more days of him being unresponsive (due to constant silent seizures), they hadn't figured out what was wrong, finally after doing nearly every test imaginable, including a spinal tap a new nurse came in from holidays and noticed he had extremely high blood pressure; apparently kids are never supposed to have blood pressure that high, because of her discovering this they found that his kidneys had stopped working.
I am not sure what fixed the problem but they never had to do a transplant or anything, but he was on medication for a couple years and has never had another episode. This was scarier to me than anything that happened to me.
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