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When did you (literally or figuratively) dodge a bullet? (lemmy.world)

submitted 4 months ago by [email protected] to c/[email protected]

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[–] [email protected] 6 points 4 months ago

When I was ~19yo, we went to a rave and I let a kid I didn't know borrow my glow sticks. He lost them and gave me caffeine pills to try to compensate me. Cops saw the exchange and made me pull them out of my pocket. I had ecstasy in the same pocket and got lucky that I didn't pull out the wrong pills (while rolling face).

When I was 18yo, someone tried to rob us at gunpoint for acid we were selling. Cops got involved and bluffed to both me and my roommate that the other had admitted to selling pot and that was the robbery (we weren't selling pot, so both didn't admit to anything). The cops dropped the sheet of acid that was hidden in a porno box when they searched our apartment and we found it on the floor.

In either case, I could have gone to prison for enough time to destroy my future.

[–] [email protected] 4 points 4 months ago (2 children)

OP did you think this was the matrix? Who do you think is literally dodging bullets?

[–] [email protected] 4 points 4 months ago

One guy comes to mind...

[–] [email protected] 1 points 4 months ago (1 children)

Trump?

[–] [email protected] 0 points 4 months ago (1 children)

Brother if the shooter missing counts as dodging...

[–] [email protected] 4 points 4 months ago (1 children)

The term frequently means narrowly avoiding a bad outcome, regardless of how it happens. Often it's nothing more than Mr Magoo-ing out of the way.

There are remarkably few people in the world who can actually dodge a literal bullet. Everything else is just luck or escaping.

[–] [email protected] 0 points 4 months ago (1 children)

Yes that's what the term means figuratively. However having read the title I was referring to the other part.

[–] [email protected] 0 points 4 months ago (1 children)

I would assume through context clues that "figuratively" in this context means narrowly avoiding a bad situation, and "literally" means avoiding your death regardless of whether it has to do with a literal bullet or not.

[–] [email protected] 1 points 4 months ago (1 children)

It's an odd assumption to make when it's not the meaning of the word literally. That's literally the meaning of the word figuratively.

[–] [email protected] 0 points 4 months ago (1 children)

I think we've had enough years on this planet to realize people use the word literally incorrectly almost as often as they use it correctly.

[–] [email protected] 1 points 4 months ago

Sure but not of the exact same time they use the word figuratively.

[–] [email protected] 4 points 4 months ago

One year, Alaska. Hiking with friend on boulder field. We stop for a break, I stand below friend on the slope. 3-foot rock rolls down at me, luckily I was balanced enough to pivot out of the way.

Next year, nearby. High speed car accident with moose. I hit the brakes just before the moose. Came through the windshield a foot to the right of my head.

Alaska's an amazing place, but it has its share of dangers too.

[–] [email protected] 3 points 4 months ago

Never been shot at but I came very, very close. My finger could've plugged the barrel.

[–] [email protected] 1 points 4 months ago (1 children)

Was helping look for a lost pet and saved myself looking in the wrong places because he had become diseased and bit and infected the person who found him.

[–] [email protected] 3 points 4 months ago (1 children)

Dunno why this got downvoted, not being bit by and getting sick from an animal is dodging a bullet. What, are we supposed to be "It's a poor 'lil guy, just be happy you get rabbies?"

[–] [email protected] 2 points 4 months ago

It's because I've triggered a lot of raised eyebrows from people elsewhere who consider it their pilgrimage (because that's how much they are peeved by me) to find me in other places and vandalize/spam my stuff and experience, hence something I often say which itself also gets the same stones thrown at me. Somedays it seems I can't walk to the post office without being showered with phantom disdain.

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