Of all my stories about the many stupid things I've done, somehow the only one that gets reliably met with skepticism is the time I was very nearly killed by the worlds largest giraffe puppet. It's bizarre, you'd think it would be the bowling ball cannon blowing up or the forklift jousting incident or further BS like that, but nope. Giant puppet death, that's unbelievable.
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There was a 3 year period of my life where almost every tragedy you could think of happened weekly. It got to a comical degree of stupid
This is a friend on mines life right now. I’m almost scared to pick up the phone when she calls. She’s always had an interesting life, it’s just crazy levels now.
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I don't expect people to believe things just because I say I experienced them, but can't think of anything that's happened that NOBODY believes, I am much more often surprised by how much they do.
I've worked on communication towers for about 25 years now. Back when I first started (like 2 years), a hawk swooped down a hit me in the back of the head.
The one guy on the ground didn't see. Old hardhat, so hard to till what marks it left. I'm betting it did leave some kind of mark, it kinda rang my bell.
Had a green baklava on over the hardhat, so I don't think it confused me with something else. No nest on the tower, but it did have a nest somewhat near by.
Edit: "hard to tell" "balaclava"
Maybe the hawk had a sweet tooth?
I’d dive bomb him for those sweet flaky layers.