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What event did you miss that saved your life (lemmy.world)

submitted 1 year ago by x4740N@lemmy.world to c/asklemmy@lemmy.ml

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Saw the post asking people for mising their plane stories and made me wonder if peoples lives where saved by missing some event so here I am asking

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[–] pgetsos@kbin.social 11 points 1 year ago

A NYE about a decade ago, I went to my then GF's neighborhood to spend the night together. At around 5am we left the bar and I wanted to head to the bus station to get the first bus of the day about an hour later. My GF proposed to go to her home to sleep for a few hours and return later. Didn't want to go because her mother would be sleeping but she insisted.

A couple of hours later I went to the bus station. It was completely missing, a drunk 17yo got his father's car with 2 friends, crashed into the station, killing both friends and a girl waiting for the 1st bus to go to her work. He survived....