i've had two close calls...
first was when i was in my 20s doing construction. we were moving trusses into place on the top of a 4 story condo building. the way we got around was by walking the exterior walls - good thing i'm not afraid of heights. it had been raining all day and we had this huge truss and were moving it into position to stand up (at this point we still had it sideways). becuz of where i was, i had to walk backwards (no biggie) except my foot was a little too close to the edge of the wall and becuz it was wet my foot slipped off the wall and over i went. some how the steel toe of my other boot hooked on the end of the truss i had been holding onto - so there i was, hanging off the side of a 4 story building by my steel toe (and we weren't using any safety lines at the time). the other guys ran over and immediately pulled me back up. i wanted to keep working but i smoked my knee pretty bad and had to stay on the floor for a few days until it felt better.
the second close call was about 8 years ago. my wife and i had gone to calgary for our tenth anniversary. on our trip home we were about half way between golden and revelstoke and as i was coming up to a bend in the road and in the on-coming lane a semi with a flat deck was coming around the bend. i guess there was a wheel rim on his deck that wasn't secured and it flew off right in front of me. we were both going around 90km/hr so the rim hit me pretty hard. it hit my skid plate, took out my right drivers tire, went back, took out my gas tank, rear drivers tire and then shot over and took out my rear passenger tire which put me into the craziest skid i've ever been in in my life. thankfully there were no cars super close in the on-coming lane and i was able to reestablish control and get to the side of the road.
as sucky as that was, after i got my truck back from the shop my wife gave me the green light to start doing a bunch of more expensive mods i had been wanting to do to the truck!
Spoiler!
the rim that flew off the deck of the semi...
the tire tracks from the skid i was in (the tow truck driver saw them and couldn't understand how i didn't roll)
and my truck on the side of the road (thankfully my truck is lifted, otherwise the rim would have gone into my truck, not under it)
and then all fixed up...
