Where did you wish you were not?

[ScotiaLass]

Driving to work on a moped on the A47. In January, blinding rain and wind....an HGV overtook me really close and him passing made me wobble so bad that I thought I was going into the dyke!
I managed to stay on but hit my upper arm off a signpost. I got into work where my arm was already nicely black and blue!
I passed my car test later that year and never drove the moped again.

 

[screenman]

Under a fast flowing river weir... having capsized a canoe... stuck in a torrent that went round and round... unable to breathe or swim out and thinking "This is the end." ... popping up and regaining consciousness twenty or thirty feet down stream really was a relief, as much for me as it was my friends.

Much the same, but upside down stuck in a canoe with my head in gravel, smashed the cockpit of the boat getting out. Not once have I been in a canoe in the sea in a force seven since. January 21 1980 same day as the AthinaB washed up on the beach just along the coast in Brighton.

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/MS_Athina_B

 

[Beebo]

Sleeping in a portacabin in Libya, with armed guards outside the camp, and being woken up at 1am by heavy arms fire. I have never been so scared.

 

[pplpilot]

Tipton.

 

[ComedyPilot]

January 2000, Bridlington. About 5,000 feet above the town. My second free fall skydive after coming off static line. I went unstable and was falling earthwards on my back looking back up at the plane. I went to pull my chute and luckily flipped onto my stomach for a clean deployment. Otherwise I could have been wrapped in a rip stop nylon blanket and gone in like that.

Shudder.

The next 400 jumps were a lot better.

 

[slowmotion]

Walking down a dusty road in the Chiapas mountains, Mexico, with fist size rocks fizzing past my head. The locals could have been more friendly.

 

[alans]

I once refused to go to Libya to install some a/c systems for the military......& my colleagues were straffed whilst sun bathing on the beach by an Egyptian MiG

I also refused to go to the Michelin factory in Ballymena;during the Troubles, to commission an installation.The bloke who went in my stead got shot as he left the factory.

 

[Bollo]

Compared to these stories I guess the cheese room at Harrods isn't going to impress. But in fairness I REALLY don't like cheese.

 

[slowmotion]

Compared to these stories I guess the cheese room at Harrods isn't going to impress. But in fairness I REALLY don't like cheese.

My personal Room 101 is the perfume section of Boots the chemist. My eyes get gritty and my nose itches....horrid.

 

[MikeW-71]

I once refused to go to Libya to install some a/c systems for the military......& my colleagues were straffed whilst sun bathing on the beach by an Egyptian MiG

I also refused to go to the Michelin factory in Ballymena;during the Troubles, to commission an installation.The bloke who went in my stead got shot as he left the factory.

 

[jayonabike]

Wales.

 

[alans]

I note that you are in Carlisle Mike.
I once had some sport with an RAF Regiment Sargeant & a couple of MP's on guard duty at the gatehouse of RAF Carlisle.Again this was in relation to IRA activity.

 

[Donger]

Driving over the Furka Pass in Switzerland just around sunset. The moment the sun went down (and it went down very suddenly like someone turning the lights out) the clouds started falling around us faster than we were descending in the car. All of a sudden we were surrounded by fog and unable to see more than a car's length ahead of us. Some of the stone markers were missing from the outside of the hairpin bends, and to this day I don't know how we didn't go straight on over a precipice. Total relief to see the lights of Andermatt down beneath us as we eventually came down out of the clouds.

 

[BigonaBianchi]

A259 worthing

 

[Cubist]

Living in Italy in 1985. The aftermath of the Heysel stadium disaster was not a good time to be English. Fortunately my mate and I could speak German, so we never uttered a word of English outside the flat.