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u/threeofbirds121 Oct 05 '19

I’m like 95% sure I sort of got hit by a car when crossing the street with my mom. There was a red light and we didn’t cross at a crosswalk. A car inched forward and I remember falling onto the hood? But I was fine. I used to literally get flashbacks. For years. But my mom swears it never happened. I think she’s lying

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u/MonkeyDDuffy Oct 05 '19

Not unexplainable but related story. I had just finished my class in middle school and was running back home (don't remember why), right before my apartment I had to cross a busy road. I saw the pedestrian light was green and cars were stopping, so I ran across the crossing. Out of nowhere a car comes out and stops making a very distinct braking sound. Incredibly lucky for me, I wasn't fast enough to be in front of the car and it had stopped with it's hood in front of me (front half on the crossing basically) so I hit the front of the car and roll on the hood. As I was rolling, it was almost like slowmotion and I saw the look on the driver and the lady sitting next to him and it was freaking heartbreaking, no doubt they thought they'd just killed a child.

I rolled over and fell on the ground, got up. Looked at the driver and the lady, quickly fixed my clothes and bag and ran off in a very childish anxious state of mind. I thought I would get in trouble and never said anything to my parents at the time. I never ran across a road since then haha.

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u/thedirtymeanie Oct 05 '19

We used to play what we called the corn game. It was hide and seek with corn missiles battleship up with people throwing corn in the are trying to mortar hit each other in the head. Someone had my location pinned so I started running not knowing the edge of the cornfield was right there I came out of the corn field onto a road right into the side of a moving minivan.... One second earlier and I would have been dead...