Geeez,
I could tell a few near-miss stories, but they would serve to highlight my own stupidity/naevity from days long before the Darwin Awards existed.
I’ve obviously got a purpose yet to fulfill on this earth as whatever spirit-guide/guardian angel looks after me, they have had their work to do at times.
Without going into all the details, let’s just list some sensationalist key words, and say that somehow I avoided the full potential consequences:
petrol bomb
road-side cliff face
sexual predator/abductor
shotgun cartridges
rip-tide
drunken passout, alone, on Sauchiehall St (x 2)
bareback riding with Thai hostess
Charles Manson
driverless motorboat heading straight for our boat
Okay, not all of these are the stuff of Hollywood movies (although, arrange them in a quick-fire sequence and you have the bones of something…).
However, they’ve left me aware and humbled.
Oh, there’s a wee fib in there too. Can you guess which one?