What were your most scary points in life...

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Couple threads on here got me thinking. Can you guys think of a few points in your life that really stood out as big time wierd/scary?

For me:

1. Introducing my wife as my wife for the first month or so. Seemed wierd, really wierd.

2. The first time I signed on the "Parent/Guardian" line on a form. Just did not seem right. LOL.

3. My first mortgage. Someone going $100,000 into depth was a VERY scary thought. My father in law used to say "You aint a man until you are at least 40k in debt." My wife called him the night we signed the mortgage and closed on the house, and told him "Well dad I am more of a man than you are now."

4. On our second child after the first ultrasound they had a tick list of half a dozen SERIOUS things they saw in her brain. It all pointed to severe downs syndrome. This was on a Friday and we did not get the follow-up sonogram till Monday afternoon. At which time they eliminated everything and told us we were going to have a perfectly healthy little girl (We could not get the sex from the first sonogram). It all worked out good but that weekend will forever stick in my mind as one of the worst and scariest of my entire life to date.

5. Lastly, my first business trip. Went to Boston. I could not get used to the fact that I was spending thousands of my company $$$. I remember I ate at McD's and BK all week so I did not spend too much.

[Tom H.]

1. When I found out I was going to be a dad at 19

2. Getting laid off from my job , I didn't think I'd find another job I'd like as much (boy was I right on that one) , luckly I was able to go back to the job I got laid off from . And I'm still happily employed there.

3. Getting Married

4. Getting Divorced

5. Then getting engaged to a real great gal, hoping this one doesn't turn out like the last one.

[BrianinMD]

1. Getting kicked out of the PICU a couple hours after my 5 week old daughter had open heart surgery and things were not going well. She is not 11 years old with no issues.

2. Starting life over again after a seperation/divorce, I walked away from just about everything in my life but family.

3. Getting laid off from a job I had for almost 16 years, I started there at 19 years of age, worked out a lot better in the long run.

[Daniel A.]

1. Finding out I was going to be a father at a young age - It definitely changed my life for the better. I'm not sure where I'd be if it weren't for that.

2. Getting married - Like M Starr, it was weird introducing my wife.

3. Quiting my job in Tennessee and moving to Louisiana with my new wife - "Scary" describes the experience perfectly. I left everything and everyone I knew. After a year and a half, I couldn't be more pleased with how things have turned out.

[grimlin]

#1.Getting shot at...Back in my younger days...hung out with the wrong crowd. :-/

#2.My first car accident.

#3.Moving to Michigan to start a family.Away from all my family in Texas.

#4.Laid off..this is the first time I'm still unemployed for more than a month's time.I don't like this feeling.

[1inStripes]

Getting married.

Having a child.  

The birth of the child, and my wife due to complications.

Building a house, unfortunately during our collapsing economy.

Non, having a second child, and hoping things go much smoother this time around.

[fishinfiend]

1. About 10 years ago, I got a call at work from someone my Dad works with. He said that my Dad fell off a stand while working on an airplane, hit his face on a baggage bin door, than fell face first onto the concrete and started having violent seizures. When I asked if he was Ok, he paused for a moment and told me "you better get up here quick." I will never forget how I felt at that moment or the site of seeing my Dad's face all banged up, which made me pass out. Fortunately, he was Ok just banged up. This event dramatically altered my life and the way I value my family. Each day I am thankful for the time I spend with them.

2. A friend and I planned a weekend camping trip at Amicalola falls in Georgia. Instead of leaving in the morning, we left at night so we could fish early the next day. We got to the park after dark. I turned onto what I thought was a road. It turned out to be a trail and I could not turn around. On the mountain side there was a deep ditch and the other side was a drop off over 50'. I had about two inches to spare on each side and 1/2 mile of STEEP path to travel in REVERSE on loose ground.  I came close to rolling off the mountain several times and it seemed like it took forever to get back to the main road. Lucikly we made it back and finished a case in record time  

[fatbass]

One day in Iraq...

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One day in Iraq...

I would bet fatbass. Any specific points over there you would be able to share? I could go on for hours on stories my grandfather gave me on WWII (He was with Pattons corp in Europe), some of which made scenes from 'Saving Private Ryan' seem tame. Gives me great appreciation for how simple my fears are in contrast as well as an EXTREME amount of respect and gratitude for those people who choose to serve this country.

In retrospect I think that is part of the reason the WWII generation was such a revered generation. At home they sacrificed with rationing. At the battlefield they saw real risk on a daily basis.

When they came back...what were you really gonna scare them with?

[senko_77]

1.  Jury deliberations for my dad's trial back in 05'.  Ended up with a guilty, but waiting 10 hours for the answer was even worse than when they said guilty.  He has been in ever since.  

2.  The first time I was allowed to hug my dad in a visit which was when I turned 18.

3.  Finding out that my father figure/life long friend/fishing mentor had terminal cancer.

4.  Being with Mr. Yero, on his last day, and the moments right up until he took his last breath before he died after an extremely brave and hard fought battle against the cancer.  He lived 3 years longer than he was supposed to, and I thank god everyday for allowing him to have that extra time.

[Bankbeater]

Back in 2002, I was at work and got a call from my wife that my daughter had been hit in the forehead with a baseball bat while up at the park. I think I drove around 95-100 mph on the highway getting to the hospital. The Dr. said that all of her swelling went out and not in toward her brain. Her forehead was swollen up for about two weeks, but luckily she was all right.

[Triton21]

The fear of dieing in Viet Nam!!!!!

I got over that and learned once you get past the fear of dieing there is nothing left to fear.

Kelley

[atx_newbie]

I should have been scared when I had kidney surgery, but I was only 4 at the time so I didn't really understand the significance of it at the time.

Other than that:

My dad had a complication during gall bladder removal--he lost 4 out of 5 quarts of blood before they figured it out.

Moving from Shreveport, LA to Austin, TX, then moving from Austin to Chicago.

The day I dropped out of college and my parents (rightly so) stopped all monetary support.

[thetr20one]

October 14, 2007. My daughter was diagnosed with Acute Lymphoblastic Leukemia. Nothing else has even come close in my life to that day. She will not be done with treatments until December 19, of this year.

Jay

[Big Tom]

1.  November 13, 2001.  My senior year of highschool.  I got called to the school office because my grandparents were there to sign me out for the day.  What was weird was I drove to school that day.  Turns out my dad had a seizure, fell and broke his neck.  He was my best friend.

2.  April 1, 2002.  I was on my way to traffic school for a speeding ticket I had received a few months earlier.  I was met at my back door by my aunt who was crying hysterically.  She informed me that just hours prior, my mother had suffered a massive heart attack while attending church.  I heard she died almost instantly.

3.  July 9, 2002.  My grandparents received a phone call early that morning from my sister in law.  She came home late the night before and found her husband (my brother) dead on their porch.  He had died of a drug overdose.  He was 26 and had a baby boy.  I try to take him fishing when I can.  

[MALTESE FALCON]

January 31,2001, driving to the hospital for my reconstructive spine surgery. My being able to walk again depended upon it's success. Then five weeks later, driving to the hospital again for the follow-up surgery. Between the two surgeries, I was on the table for over sixteen hours. Thankfully, both surgeries were successful.

Falcon

[burleytog]

This one time at band camp...

[fourbizz]

Rolling a Suburban @ 60MPH with no seat belt, then walking half a mile home all messed up.

Discovering my parents were splitting up and mom had a boyfriend before they told me.

Carrying my best friends coffin when I was 16.

[CJ]

Well it would be a toss up between riding out a tornado in a single wide trailer, which really sucked, got hung up to a bull for about 30 seconds one time, which really hurt, or trying to cross Ky. Lake with 6 ft. rollers. All three times I was pretty sure I was gonna die.

[CFFF 1.5]

Losing a good friend to a murder 4.5 years ago.

Trying to get back to the ramp at Stick Marsh. It was the winter and a cold front blew through the preceding day. We headed out in the morning and I suggested we stay on the ramp side of the lake but the other people with us wanted to go to the far side. We forgot to gas up that morning also. We started heading back and got to the ramp side of the lake and the waves were at least 2 ft maybe more. We were only in a 16ft boat. About now we are almost out of gas and we make the turn down the canal back to the ramp and the way the wind was blowing was causing the waves to break right into the side of the boat. It would have been very messy if we would have ran out of gas. I got soaking wet and the air temp was probably only 38 that day. That was pretty scary especially if you would have seen the size and sharpness of the rocks we would have been smashed against if we ran out of gas.

[brgbassmaster]

mine is about to happen im heading to baghdad iraq.

[skunked_again]

i spent the night in a mexican jail.

ugly place.

[skunked_again]

mine is about to happen im heading to baghdad iraq.

what youre going to isnt that bad. my son did 6 months in iraq then 6 months in afgahnistan.

if given the choice, check the box that says IRAQ.

[Pond Hopper]

Finding out my sister killed herself.  

And most recently finding out I may be adopting my nephew, because his dad has nothing better to do than get 2 DUIs in a month and having no other family members capable of taking care of the boy.

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And most recently finding out I may be adopting my nephew...

This sucks but I have to say, it is awesome that you can be there for him. I always hold to the idea that any man can have a kids, it takes a real man to raise them and twice the man to step in and raise a child he has no legal obligation to.