EPTTill this day I look back on it and it is a bit scary, but you know what fucking it was pretty awesome at the same time ;D
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R4ptur3d
Canada206 Posts
Till this day I look back on it and it is a bit scary, but you know what fucking it was pretty awesome at the same time ;D | ||
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decafchicken
United States20090 Posts
Thats about the extent of my good luck. | ||
Rekrul
Korea (South)17174 Posts
me and friend wake up totally distraught from hangover and r frantically packing cuz we have a flight to macau to catch we go to the airport in korea we get our tickets but they say plz take ur bags to this back room u have been randomly selected for full inspection. i then realize those fucking jeans are in my suitcase (on top right there when u open it even) and i forgot to wash them or not bring them i was so mother fking scared they opened up his bag wiped it down with paraphernalia detecting wipes and then put a special super smeller suction machine to his bag and checked it (his was clean) i thought mine was next i stood there in horror realizing the possibility that i would be banned from korea for a long long time then they said okay done you guys can go and our bags rolled up the escalator thingy to be taken to the plane boy o boy was i sure fucking scared (cuz its korea). i think they didnt bother scanning mine because my bag was brand new and nice looking whilst my friends was like camouflage. o man. sickest relieve. i was still paranoid as fuck tho until the plane tookoff lolol | ||
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Ecorin
Estonia84 Posts
Oh, in real life ? No idea. Maybe when I was in first grade, I hit my best friend in the head with a large lump of ice, ran home from school because I was afraid. The teacher called me to get back to school (since my stuff was still there)... I didn't even get scolded, I actually got a good meal and some dessert. | ||
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iloveHieu
United States1919 Posts
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HeaDStrong
Scotland785 Posts
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Kerotan
England2109 Posts
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FieryBalrog
United States1381 Posts
Some background. I graduated in Dec 08 and since then was just working part-time teaching SAT/GMAT and bumming around. My health insurance ran out and I had to pay for a monthly plan out of my meager salary and I was still living with my parents. I didn't know WTF I wanted to do and applied to random grad schools/law schools despite having very negligible interest. Since I had no better plan I decided to try going to India and looking for a full-time teaching/test-prep position because education is hugeeee in India and the demand is way higher and the market saturation is way lower. Also coming from the US I had a skill-set that I presumed would be in high demand as very few Americans go to India to work in education and I'd been teaching part-time in the US for a long time. I should probably mention that I'm Indian and so obviously have some advantages in doing this sort of thing. Long story short I got a ridiculously good job working out of a 5-star hotel and a ton of responsibilities (way more than just teaching) and very well-connected employers. I was expecting at best just a 40 hour a week job teaching but I got way more than that. I'm still amazed at how everything worked out. | ||
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vRoOk
United States1024 Posts
On January 15 2010 07:32 LordWeird wrote: Oh, and once I nailed a 9. Does that count? LOL fuck yea.. | ||
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piratebay
United States399 Posts
mind you, i was on a suspended licence. one of our friends had already been busted for dealing and best of all it was 4-20 and we were totally gone. and speeding. cop car starts his siren/lights behind me. i panic and try to pull over on the left instead of right side of the highway. the asshole just passes me and like 10 other ppl before turning off his lights. had to pull over and smoke a couple bowls to calm down. what a close call. | ||
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Dewis
Finland344 Posts
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R A V
United States217 Posts
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DoX.)
Singapore6164 Posts
On January 15 2010 18:24 Dewis wrote: Crazy stories here! My luckiest moment is probably crashing into a moose on the highway in the middle of a night with my car, and I didn't get hurt, only a few minor bruises. Moose  | ||
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Yogurt
United States4258 Posts
accidentally ran a red light yesterday through some big intersection. And not like turning yellow into red, like full out, been red for a while. And the intersection was probably 100-150 feet wide. But on either side, no cars were coming in a what i think is a 55-65 mph zone with my girlfriend. Phew | ||
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Methos
United States206 Posts
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RaGe
Belgium9949 Posts
On January 15 2010 16:37 Mora wrote: the only other steps were just as lucky. At the time, I was doing drywall for a living with my father. Relic Entertainment had been hiring game design critics for about 6 months, specifically looking at expert players of Starcraft, Warcraft 3, and Dawn of War. I had performed in WCG for the previous 2 years, and had placed well each time. BC.Korn was first noticed by Relic - he was hired 4 months before myself. Samson Mow - the Balance Manager (game design critic) ended up coming across my alias one day when he was researching good players from Vancouver, B.C.. He asked the team if anyone knew who i was. Korn and myself had been on Team BC for a few years; as well, i had been on WGT's Canada team for about 4 years. I got a phone call from Sam asking me if i would be interested in critiquing video games for a living. After a skill assessment (where i had to play 9 games of Starcraft against numerous members of the balance team) and 3 interviews, Mora was hired on a 1-year contract. It also didn't hurt that i had won WGTour's map making contest with my map Imbroglio of Mishap; as well as had made 2 professional tournament maps for Blizzard: Coulee and Umbra Locus. I had also been selected as a judge for Blizzard's Blizzcon Map Making tournament. When Sam interviewed me, he was set on making me a designer from the get-go. After a year of being a balancer i was promoted to Design. And now i am in charge of post-product support for Company of Heroes, as well as one of two multiplayer designers for our RTS meets MMO hybrid, Company of Heroes Online. It's been a rad journey. I feel like i am the luckiest man alive. Not a single day in my life goes by where I don't praise the gods for giving us Coulee. That map was so awesome | ||
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ThunderGod
New Zealand897 Posts
On January 15 2010 17:52 HeaDStrong wrote: Winning the pokerstrategy.com TSL raffle and going to korea to see the OSL finals live! Haha I was gonna post that. (Remind me to check back here in a few weeks). | ||
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m8
Germany32 Posts
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Lord_of_Chaos
Sweden372 Posts
I was doing my military service, and I was (due to budget cuts and what not) basicly randomly selected to be a truck driver (since I had a driver's licence). I'm not one bit interested in engines, though I wasn't exactly bad at driving it I was a slow learner. As a result, I was one of the last people in my platoon that managed to get the military driver's licence for the truck. I had finally gotten it, was probably my fourth try or something and I was extremely relieved and mentally exhausted from the strain. The examinor simply told me to take a few tours around the city to practice some more (this is the army, you might have passed, but you still need practice!) so I did. I realised pretty soon it was not a good idea given how unfocused I was and started making my way back to the regiment. Now, my sense of direction really sucks. Not a big problem in a small town like the one where my regiment was, but I had to take a weird route back since I couldn't really find the normal one. I start driving towards a tunnel that goes under another street. It's like 3 o'clock and lots of traffic. Too late I realise that the sign says "warning, 4.2m free space" or something like that. My truck was 4.5m high. Behind me there is a bus, and lots of cars between it, I cannot make a u turn due the street being too narrow and I don't really want to get out and ask like 5 cars and a bus to drive back so I can get the heck out of there. So I do what any idiot would, I simply drive on, ever so slowly. I hear something from the truck scratching and hitting the cieling of the tunnel, but my truck is still moving forward. Finally, the scratching stops, the margins get a little bit bigger and I finally manage to get out. I have no idea how I got through there. No idea at all. My truck was completely unhurt, not a scratch. Had I gotten stuck I would have been forced to hear about that for the rest of my military servie. "Oh yeah, you finally get your licence, and then you get fucking stuck in a tunnel!" Would have pretty much killed me lol. I might even have lost my licence on the frikking spot. Edit: typo | ||
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Kashll
United States1117 Posts
On January 15 2010 11:16 Kennigit wrote: I have such sick luck with catching buses from school -> home. Seriously, they are 30 mins apart but no matter what time of day i walk out, it literally pulls right up to pick me up. Luck or perpetual eehan timing Haha me too. Once i was like 7 minutes for the last bus for the night to get home and it pulled up right when i got there. | ||
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