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When I was 9 months old, I crawled into the pantry and knocked over a glass 2-liter bottle of ginger ale. It exploded and sent glass shrapnel through my right cheak. I almost bled to death on the way to the hospital.
When I was 15, I was crossing a busy street on my bike (to buy my mom a birthday gift, no less) and got hit by a woman driving with her 2 kids. Only because I saw her coming at the last possible moment did I manage to start going off the back of the bike before she hit the front wheel. As it was, the pedal slammed into my knee and I got knocked about 10'. The doctor that sewed me up tried to prepare me for the fact that I was probably going to miss my sophomore year of cross country - thankfully he was wrong.
Two years ago I attended a race car driving school at Laguna Seca in central CA. It was raining one afternoon while I was driving a Formula Dodge around the track. I'd been going for a while and gotten into a lull a bit when I lost traction in a turn and skidded into the back of a bridge abutment going backwards. The guy driving the pace car had me about 90 mph goiing into the turn, but I was probably going about 60 mph when I hit. Thankfully I walked away without even really being sore, but when I went backwards, I thought for sure I was going to die.
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"They that can give up essential liberty to obtain a little temporary safety deserve neither liberty nor safety." - B. Franklin
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"We have met the enemy and he is us." - Pogo
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