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Following on from the earlier thread..
Once grabbed a £20 note as it was flying across a carpark in the wind.
Got a huge reduction off a few products (mostly bike stuff) on what was probably the wrong prices on websites.
Was late for a lecture once, and the only seat available was next to some girl I'd never seen before, she=awesome, and for some reason she thinks the same about me too, even 6 months on.
Any of yours?
...or anyone been in the right place at the right time and still ****ed it all up?
...or anyone been in the right place at the right time and still ****ed it all up?
Yeah, that could be interesting as well.
[b]Summary[/b]: right place, right time, several times, screwed up, and yet still managed to get away with it.
Met 'misses right' in freshers week. got drunk and walked her and her friend home. Didn't see her until a couple of months later when mutual friends met up, and we got on really well. And then bollocked it up in a nightclub when I blew her off to see somebody else (drink a factor again). Rumours got around about that night which didn't help. Thought 'misses right' wasn't interested (man can't read signs apparently), so proceeded to have a casual relationship with someone else as i was bored. News got back to 'misses right', and she was upset, asked my best mate about it, and he said words to the effect of 'you're better than him'. Which was correct. Then somebody else told me of her interest in me. That night went round and ended the casual relationship, and spent the next few weeks wooing the 'misses right'.
After that a very messy break up from a pre university relationship and all the associated gubbins, with claims of me being a father, really shouldn't have survived that. I'm rambling now
3 years, 1month, and 1 week later, we live in a flat on campus as I finish my degree, and she's the best thing that's happened to me. Absolute fluke that I've managed to keep hold of her, and I'm extremely grateful. Even if she doesn't like bikes 🙂
Many times.
Nothing of interest to share though as it's all rude and can't be shared on here anyway.
If I had met the 'misses right', and 3years, 1month, 1week later all three of us would be living in a flat, I'd be extremely grateful. What's a bike?
funny, met my wife by being in the right place etc, considering we were both travelling around Australia and just happened to be on a small tropical island 12,000 miles from our homes it really was a csae of right place etc
Recently caught a friends five year old son as he fell head first of a high bar stool toward a very solid floor, not a big thing but the results could have been nasty
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Marin County, Cali
The house I shared with Gary Fisher in Marin County was the right place, and the 'seventies was the right time to get interested in riding bikes off-road.
I came off the road in Australia during a rain storm, hit a mudslide on a blind corner, car span off a ravine. I landed rear end on the only gumtree growing out of the cliff, either side several hundred feet to the bottom. Fell about 3 car lengths. Managed to climb out unscathed. This is a case of the tree being there at the right time, right place!
My other best ever time to take a piss was in India. We were driving at dawn through the jungle of Mahdya Pradesh. Me and my two mates decided to stop for a wee break. We are all standing there when a massive tiger strolls up, we didnt see him till he was two meters away! One of the few times in my life where 'awesome' is applicable.
yes
if you are with your partner obviously you met them . Most people marry, most marry someone they have met etc.
Some nice bits of serendipity but nothing spectacular TBH.
Walked up to a cash machine to take some money out and couldn't work out why the cash macing was saying:
'Would you like another service?'
Eh? I haven't even put my card in yet!
Sure but some one else has and has failed to take it out. They had a few thousand pounds in their account (I know because I clicked 'yes' and checked!)
In the end I did the honourable thing, removed the card and handed it in. I got £20 as a reward!
Wrong place, right time!
Right place, right time, my wife was on the same train as the 7/7 London bombers, she was lucky enough that she got off a couple of stops before they set the bombs off, so she wasn't still on board. It made me realise how random life is.
I like to think so.
I was really hungry the other day and fancied a big bag of sweets, Haribo Star Mix in actual fact.
I went to my coat, which was in the right place, hanging up by the door and put it on. Then, when I was walking down the street I checked my pocket for my wallet, and lo and behold, there it was, in the right place! Who would have thought it? Certainly I found it hard to believe, that's for sure.
Then I arrived at the corner shop, which miraculously was in the right place, on the very corner of the street. As luck would have it, it was about 1.45 in the afternoon and the shop opens from 6 a.m. to 11.00 p.m. so I was most definitely there at the right time.
I then went in and bought the sweets and ate them on the way home.
Imagine!
I was really hungry the other day and fancied a big bag of sweets, Haribo Star Mix in actual fact.I went to my coat, which was in the right place, hanging up by the door and put it on. Then, when I was walking down the street I checked my pocket for my wallet, and lo and behold, there it was, in the right place! Who would have thought it? Certainly I found it hard to believe, that's for sure.
Then I arrived at the corner shop, which miraculously was in the right place, on the very corner of the street. As luck would have it, it was about 1.45 in the afternoon and the shop opens from 6 a.m. to 11.00 p.m. so I was most definitely there at the right time.
I then went in and bought the sweets and ate them on the way home.
Imagine!
I hope you bought a lottery ticket from said corner shop...your luck was obviously in that day.
actual fact
Oooh! What other kinds are there?
Pedantic facts?
I nipped out to get some petrol from work one lunchtime so I could get off home quicker later it was when it was windy and I worked on a park and when I came back a tree had come down scratching loads of cars but fell right where mine would have been.
Mind you after having to spending so much money on it I wish it'd been there now!
Oooh! What other kinds are there?
Tandem Jeremy facts
pleonastic facts?
No capital letter? Must try harder.
You just can't get the EarnestTrackWorld members these days...
😉
Don't you see? It's funnier, in a post-modern way, [i]because [/i]it doesn't start with a capital letter.
See? It's not a sentence! I bet ur lolling now.
I've never felt so depressed.
No, hold on, let me try and explain again. See "pleonastic facts" isn't a sentence in itself, so it is not governed by modern definitions and conventions, like. always start a sentence with a capital letter. Nevertheless, the 'sentenceness' is implied so one expects a capital letter. Much as in pleonasms one expects to hear both descriptors e.g. safe haven. Then just as you start to chuckle to yourself at this, I hit hit you with the terminating question mark!! What!!?? But, it's not even a sentence!! and now you've turned it all on it's head again! Oh my! I'd better finish there, otherwise if I explain it too much it won't be as funny and I don't want to spoil it for others.
I've never felt so happy!
Back in the 80's when I was a single man with a great job up in the city, I was on my way back to our office. I was walking up the steps out of a tube station with a colleague. It was at the end of the working day and as we climbed the steps, all I could see were a really perfect pair of pins on a young woman. Gorgeous! As we neared the top of the steps we copped a full view of this stunner. She smiled at me and asked in her Anerican accent if there were any good places to go drinking nearby. Not realising the opportunity and being a bit shell shocked by her sheer beauty, I dutifully gave her a few tips and then she went on her way. I was then thinking what a twxt i'd been for not offering to go with her. Oh the naivety of youth! 😆
back in october, mentioned something on FB about not being able to find a job. ex classmate saw it and mentioned his company were looking for someone new.
5 months later i'm sat in the alps, running an adventure travel website which is growing 30% month on month, with some great industry support and fantastic prospects.
my bikes are about to arrive and spring has sprung.
fantastic 🙂
This thread is useless without counterfactuals.
This thread is useless without counterfactuals
Oh no it isn't.
(Is that good enough?)
I was wandering across carpark of my LBS in northern island a couple of weeks ago and a computer print out came blowing across the ground. When I picked it up seemed to be a long list of credit card numbers.
Anyway, not wanting to look a gift horse in the mouth, I've brought a few mobile top ups and some nice stuff for the missus off John Lewis. Someone's going to get a surprise when they see their bill, LOL.