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Post by maxwellperfect on Jan 30, 2020 2:46:35 GMT
Eh?
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Post by Harmless elf on Jan 30, 2020 5:10:50 GMT
I can't be brave because I'm indestructible
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Post by millar70 on Jan 30, 2020 20:16:46 GMT
When I was 20 years old, I moved 3000 miles across the country from New England to California.
I had $300 in my pocket and knew exactly one person when I got there.
That was close to 30 years ago, and I'm still here. Did everything work out as I had planned? Of course not, but it's been a helluva adventure.
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Post by msdemos on Jan 30, 2020 20:33:34 GMT
When I was 20 years old, I moved 3000 miles across the country from New England to California. I had $300 in my pocket and knew exactly one person when I got there. That was close to 30 years ago, and I'm still here. Did everything work out as I had planned? Of course not, but it's been a helluva adventure. Uh, yeah....... Kinda like my story. I decided, at the tender age of 10, to go 'cold turkey' once and for all, by FINALLY getting rid of the training wheels on my bike.....and, somehow, lived to tell the tale !! No, No..... PLEASE.......hold your applause, and stop all that talk of "hero"......you're only going to embarrass me..... I put my pants on one leg at a time, just like the rest of you.....  SAVE FERRIS
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Post by onethreetwo on Jan 30, 2020 20:41:19 GMT
I used to work a very dangerous job. I've saved people who were being attacked, stopped people from attacking others, stopped people from killing themselves, and been in more riot situations than I can remember.
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Post by rogerthat on Jan 31, 2020 1:02:34 GMT
When I was living in NYC my building had a shared backgarden with several buildings.
One night I woke up to screaming and looked out my window at the backgarden and saw one of the houses ground floor garden apartments were on fire.
No one was on the second floor but on the third was a couple who couldn't get out via the hallway as it was filled with smoke ( and they told me later a glow from the fire below) so they were at the window which had no fire escape and screaming for help.
My boyfriend and I raced into the garden and were fortunate to find painters ladders that reached just below their windows and were able to get them out.
What was making it dangerous was due to ladder size and their floor we had to place the ladder pretty much against the wall of windows of the garden apartment that was on fire. I kept telling the couple to be calm but hurry up as I was really afraid of how close the flames were on the other side of the windows and if they would burst.
End of story was we got the couple out. Unfortunately we could not save the guy who lived in the groundfloor apartment.
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Post by Nora on Jan 31, 2020 3:50:28 GMT
When I was 20 years old, I moved 3000 miles across the country from New England to California. I had $300 in my pocket and knew exactly one person when I got there. That was close to 30 years ago, and I'm still here. Did everything work out as I had planned? Of course not, but it's been a helluva adventure. I did Europe to India at 19 knew zero people there and had a bit more money but didnt last as long as you did. the second time i did europe to US, was 30, knew 1 person here who proved to be instrumental in my ability to survive here mentally during the first 4 or so months. i cried a lot during that time. i dont consder those thing brave as much as adventurous or naive. brave, brave i have to think about but nothing really comes to mind right now. |
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Post by Nora on Jan 31, 2020 3:52:52 GMT
I used to work a very dangerous job. I've saved people who were being attacked, stopped people from attacking others, stopped people from killing themselves, and been in more riot situations than I can remember. that sounds like something one can be really proud of. |
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Post by ZolotoyRetriever on Jan 31, 2020 4:02:40 GMT
I once fought a tiger in my pajamas. What it was doing in my pajamas, I haven't a clue.
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Post by millar70 on Jan 31, 2020 4:04:53 GMT
When I was 20 years old, I moved 3000 miles across the country from New England to California. I had $300 in my pocket and knew exactly one person when I got there. That was close to 30 years ago, and I'm still here. Did everything work out as I had planned? Of course not, but it's been a helluva adventure. I did Europe to India at 19 knew zero people there and had a bit more money but didnt last as long as you did. the second time i did europe to US, was 30, knew 1 person here who proved to be instrumental in my ability to survive here mentally during the first 4 or so months. i cried a lot during that time. i dont consder those thing brave as much as adventurous or naive. brave, brave i have to think about but nothing really comes to mind right now. I guess there's different levels of brave. I'm not comparing moving to a whole different world the same type of brave as say, a firefighter running into a burning building or a soldier going off to war, but it still takes some guts to move to a strange place where you don't know hardly anybody when you get there. When I did it, I wasn't of the mindset of having a fun adventure. I made the decision to live my life out there, going back home was always the absolute last option. I remember at a going away party some friends threw for me, a buddy came up and said "I bet we'll see you back here in 3 months". I haven't spoken to him in almost 30 years, even on my occasional visits back home. |
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Post by theauxphou on Jan 31, 2020 10:23:15 GMT
Dived off a really high diving platform when I was 12.  |
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Post by Stammerhead on Jan 31, 2020 11:20:19 GMT
Help break up fights. That might not seem like much but I’m crap at fighting. Was it brave of me to admit that?  |
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Post by lordquesterjones on Feb 2, 2020 1:40:12 GMT
Put out a Kitchen fire.
I was working in a bar and someone ran out of the Kitchen yelling 'There's a fire!', so I walked in there, saw the chip fryer was on fire and thought 'What will help her?e'.
I then just turned the heat down and watched the fire dissipate.
And everyone was like 'woah; how did you know how to do that?'.
Funnily enough the same thing happened a few years ago with a lorry fire.
I used a fire extinguisher on that one.
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Post by lordquesterjones on Feb 2, 2020 1:46:10 GMT
When I was 20 years old, I moved 3000 miles across the country from New England to California. I had $300 in my pocket and knew exactly one person when I got there. That was close to 30 years ago, and I'm still here. Did everything work out as I had planned? Of course not, but it's been a helluva adventure. I've moved 3 times in my life, and had no more than £150 in my wallet, and a few clothes and items in a backpack; and survived. No idea how, and they were all quite stressful times. And, if that wasn't enough, landed a place to live and a job all within a couple of days of my arrival. And now, for the first time in years, I have no debts, and I have a couple of grand in the bank. Never thought I'd get to where I am now though. Strange days indeed.
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Post by Deleted on Feb 2, 2020 3:57:45 GMT
I became a single mother at 19.
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