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Originally Posted by flat5
Are you a good swimmer now?
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i was put in swimming class one week later. then later i became a kickass swimmer when i started squad training 6 days a week till the age of 18. i had hopes of representing australia..or lebanon (dual citizenship..dont you love em), but i stopped too early...thats one regret i have... i could be Ian Thorpe right now...but this aint the right thread
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Originally Posted by abaya
Jaysus CHRIST... are you serious? No offense to your dad whatsoever, but... I want to kick men in the balls when they say shit like that to their sons (or daughters!). That is just messed up. You nearly drowned. Your DAD should've been the one crying... maybe that's why he reacted the way he did.
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nah my dads a gentle giant..but he's always the firm type, but the most humble person ive met... he said he and mum didnt sleep for a week after that incident.
i think my twin would have been more devastated had i gone. he was merely a metre away and had i died he would have blamed himself for being there but not doing anything about it.
i have a 2nd story...
i had just lost my job, it was a nice friday afternoon, im driving home like a maniac cos im pissed off, going over the sydney harbour bridge where 7 lanes merge into 3. it had just started to drizzle a few minutes earlier after hardly any rain for a few weeks, so the roads become slippery. i see this lady on the extreme left lane coming down the ramp..im in the 2nd lane from the right on a steep decline... i look at here and think..nah she's not goin to cross another 5 lanes, she'll stop soon...but she keeps coming..uh uh..shes not gonna come across, she cant be that stupid.. she edges closer....really..shes close now, but theres no way she'll come over here.. im doin 110km/hr (thats about 70mph for you americans :P) ..so i decide to slow down...she keeps merging across.. i touch the brakes lightly.. i just lose control..my car spins out of control and ends up in the extreme right lane about 50metres from when i touched the brakes... everything went slow motion from when i hit the brakes. i couldnt control anything let alone my fate..all i could think of was beeping my horn at her, so i did as i was spinning.. i did 900 degree turn. thats 2.5 revolutions and up facing cars behind me. i was delirious and furious. i was scared, just outraged that some incompetant bitch could have ruined my life. thinking i was in reverse cos i was facing traffic i put the car in reverse..then realised what i did, i put it in drive and followed the bitch. my legs still aching from the adrenalin rush i chased the bitch. she didnt even bother stopping. i saw her see me, but she didnt have the nerve to see if i was ok. so when i caught up to her i couldnt get close enough to let my profanities rip at her. i ended up losing her in the traffic (it was 5pm on a friday afternoon going into the city).
miraculously i didnt have ANY cars in the immediate lane or behind me, but it was quite a close call.
im sure ive got a few more, but it'll come to me.