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I came perilously close to losing my life in the gas chambers of Auschwitz. Every day I thank my lucky stars that I was born 50-odd years later, in England and am not Jewish.
Louise got me too though. She was a PA to a chap that owned a very s****y converted Victorian orangery that he rented to a Liverpool footballer. She house-sat when he moved away on a loan spell. We tested his hot-tub, steam room, round bed with red satin sheets (I kid you not)... She threatened to tell my fiancé.
Batshit mental that one.
On the low side but makes you think...Cycled past a car on its roof in a ditch, on my side and facing me, wheels still spinning, occupants out and ok.
I knew* a glamour model called Louise - latterly famous for being a conservative MP's PA
* still can't decide if avoidance was best decision of mine 😳
Ha Ha another Louise 😕
Usual things as above...lovely looking, fun in and outside but the added complication of 2 lovely kids.....I still miss kids!!
Oh and West Yorks though!
I missed wining Tour de France again last year, I suspect it will be the same this year. Its hard work being unfit an not suitable for that particular challenge.
following this thread...... http://singletrackworld.com/forum/topic/12-week-scan-no-heartbeat
did not react well. I wasn't there for my wife when she needed me most, instead became a binge-alcoholic, that couldn't say no to just one more, leading to a few nasty incidents including sleeping rough and being robbed and twice vomiting in my sleep but avoiding becoming a statistic. It took a while to crack but I did it and I'm better for it.
more recently, have been suffering with depression brought on by stress and work pressure, to the extent of being stood on a tube station platform with my heart telling me 'two quick steps and this is finished'. Fortunately my head won out and those times have passed, largely. Work's still shit, but it's just work, and IDGAF about it anymore.
...Every little breeze seems to whisper "Louise."
Birds in the trees seem to twitter "Louise.".......Can it be true, someone like you Could love me, Louise. - MC
1st.
I went OTB into a ditch. Tried to stand up and couldn't. A tree root had embedded itself so far into my helmet, it took a good heave to get the helmet free once I'd unbuckled and and stood up without it.
2nd.
Having post GCSE party on Sidmouth beach and a few of us were going to go for a walk up towards the other end. We were about to set off when someone we hadn't seen for a couple of years arrived and we chatted for 10 minutes. Just as we were about to go, there was a huge cliff fall: I suspect where we'd have been standing had we set off when we intended.
She was called Caroline. Phew!
My dad was on Edda/Alexander Kielland doing 2 weeks on, 1 week off. He was on his 1 week off when it capsized.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Alexander_L._Kielland_(platform)
Mods - can you please change the thread title to "Louises and how to avoid them"?
At the end of Uni I was offered a job in S****horpe. 😯
Thankfully I had an interview in Southern Scotland a week later, so refused the Scunny job in the hope of heading to Galloway...
Not all that dramatic compared to some, but I was once involved in a nasty car crash - really stupid one.
I was the passenger in the last car in a 3 car convoy or "dickhead boy racing party". The first car, a Renault 5 Turbo wearing over-sized wheels and fast road suspension flew into a sweeping left hand turn slightly too quickly and got away with it, a blink of an eye later the second car, a MK2 Golf GTI 16v wearing equally silly over-sized wheels and fast road suspension followed it in the great tradition of early golfs on 3 wheels, and a blink of an eye later we did the same - in a boggo Astra 1.4 GL wearing ditch finders and worn out standard suspension - it was a brave move by anyone’s measure - of course it didn't work - the car pitched and got up on 2 wheels, the driver just caught it by steering out and it fell back onto 4 wheels, span, hit 2 cars and a tree side on - passenger side on - the passenger door was destroyed and so was the passenger seat - I got away with a mildly bruised leg because when the car went up on 2 wheels the seat belt failed and I was tipped onto the centre console and came to a stop sat on it.
Cleo - 10th year at high school. We would have been 13....anyway, I got invited round for 'tea' at hers. My mum point blank refused to let me go. Cleo decides she's had enough of me and instead goes for my mate Sam, who DOES go round for tea. Few weeks later, Cleo is preggers....
For the sake of continuity, I'm happy to change her name to Louise...
Canoeing at school in the depths of winter.. the council used to have a flat barge that they used to clear the river banks..
As I'd done a lot more canoeing than the others in my class I ended up with our instructors slalom race canoe which was very unstable but very fast/agile.
Current on the Severn was really fast and we were having a race from school boathouse to bridge and back.
I was in the lead but started to get dragged towards the barge...last minute grab of the handrail and I managed to get my elbow over it. Canoe was pulled off me and proceeded to spin, upside down under the barge until I managed to get onto the barge to safety. Had I not been able to grab the rail I'd have gone under for sure.
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it's a Claire for me, 9 years old, kissing on the table in our garden. She wouldn't speak to me for days after as she thought I'd made her pregnant
Mods - can you please change the thread title to "Louises and how to avoid them"?
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A few -
1) On my scooter heading back from Maritime college in Bombay - guy opens his jeep door ended up slam straight into it, maybe it's cos I'm a tall guy but I pretty much fell off on the spot and see my bike sliding across the road and a truck coming down at the same time - the bike goes under the truck to the other side!
2) Apprentice on a Bulk Carrier - working in the tanks - lowering some anodes on a winch - I was in the tank on the upper stringer and got pinned between the load and the railing and nearly got flipped over the railing (20m fall to the bottom) - was absolutely shaken
3) A couple of road accidents
Road trip LA to Utah - fell asleep at the wheel had the car in cruise control at 90mph - woke up to see the car veering off and instinctively pulled the wheel over tapping the brake- skidded across the freeway into the central reservation - just two flat tyres but was absolutely shaken
Road trip to the Arctic - 60km out of Inuvik on the Dempster [i]Highway[/i] lost control of the car as we rounded a bend and flipped over... one of best road trips though
The Pinkster - Member
[i]Haha.... Another Louise.... Essex, this time.
Beautiful girl. Stunning.[/i]
Yep, same here, another Louise, also from Essex.
I know a Louise Essex though she married to gain the Essex name!
plyphon - MemberHer middle name was Louise, does that count?
My sisters middle name is Louise & she is on this forum 😮
During the storm in October 87 I stupidly had my nose pressed up against the window trying to see what was going on outside. As I turned away, I was showered with glass as a fence panel came through. Feel lucky I wasn't blinded.
No kids to start.
Fell between 2 trawlers on a stormy night whilst they were tied up. Skipper grabbed top of my head and pulled me out the gap before it closed and crushed me. Thanks Bob.
Recited England football team names to convince paramilitaries in Guatemala I wasn't in the CIA when they dragged me off a bus in middle of the night in 1996 and had a pistol pressed into the back of my head by a man wearing a balaclava. I may have soiled my pants but lived to tell the tale.
I met a loony Louise at school 30 years ago!
Married her and we're still together.
She's still a bit nuts though.
I only just avoided drowning in the beck at eskdale when I was about 12.
A Louise showed me hers in first year primary.
Lyrics NSFW...
I was listening to an interview with Victoria Pendleton today and had a lightbulb moment - a quick look on Wikipedia confirms her middle name is Louise.
The only Louise I know works on a site I visit occasionally and is extremely attractive but is as mad as a box of frogs.
About 5 yrs ago in Morzine, we had done the PPDS and were on a day of local exploring.
headed out of the " Goat village" [can't remember the name] and there were a number of fast road switchbacks back to Morzine. i was going far too fast and ended up losing the front end [mtb tyres and tarmac don't mix kids!!] ended up on the wrong side of the road on a blind corner. Missed an oncoming car by inches and collapsed in a heap in the undergrowth.
Never been with a Louise though....my nutcase was Julie!!
Riding down from the Col between Morgins and Chatel. Had been up rock climbing in the evening on a bike holiday (way back in the day). Had left all the bike stuff back at the apartment - stuff like helmet, armour, etc. Mate and I rode off from the climbing crag and neither of us clocked we'd pulled out on the left. Just as I hit warp speed down the road, a car came round the corner and I had a head-on with it. Don't like to think what the closing speed was. Broke my back and all sorts of nasty flesh wounds, but consider myself very, very lucky. Back healed up fine and I'm all good.
Beautiful-stunning-way-out-of-my-league-American girlfriend of three years on Erasmus prog went home a year late and sent me a Xmas card saying, "Merry Me" on it a few months later. Failed to understand what it meant and carried on my merry way. Penny dropped a few years later.
Liking Reggae, Spiced Food and the Labour Party.
late to the party here, I've been Louise'd also, pregnant within a month she was 😡
Haven't had a Louise in my life - am I still allowed to post? Though come to think of it there was a Louise in one of my classes at school I kind of fancied and with the knowledge derived of no longer being a teenager with no confidence around girls I probably stood a chance - it was her friend (not called Louise) I really fancied though, and looking back I'm 100% sure she was also interested.
From pretty much the same time I visited the Houses of Parliament on 18th November 1987. On the way home we went to McDonalds then the pub. If we hadn't gone to the pub then the tube train would probably have stopped at King's Cross - it was incredibly inconvenient when they kept the doors shut and we couldn't get off and go through the tube station to get our train home.
dirtyrider - Member
late to the party here, I've been Louise'd also, pregnant within a month she was
And how long was it until the next?
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World War 1 and 2.
I wasn't born yet.
And I also missed 9-11 by virtue of not being in the twin towers at the time. Or in the USA. But it was a lucky escape!
she's the baby mama, not the mother of my other children 🙁
3 things that stick out ! fell off my road bike in rain went to AandE to get ribs checked out and the doc found this on my chest 3 weeks later chest surgery to get the bugger out luckily it was not attached to anything vital.
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In Belfast had 16 rounds fired at my OP I was the only one in there no kevlar vest on, one hit me in the arm back on duty 1 week later :0)
Missed the Herald Free Enterprise Out of Zeebrugge due to getting there late
A girl i was at uni with (not called Louise) was on a flight in America. American Airlines flight 77, Washington to LA.
A day later, that exact same flight was crashing into the Pentagon. She was properly shaken by that one although she got a very extended stay in LA courtesy of everything being grounded.
Bit closer to home, my grandfather was supposed to be transferred between ships (WWII) but the ship he was on was involved in some action so was a day or two late back to port.
The ship he'd been due to go on sailed anyway and was torpedoed 3 days after that in the North Atlantic.
In a severely drunken and high state as a teenager I fell over a small wall, with a large drop at the other side. Woke up in a patch of grass with headache, cuts, bruises and a bit of bleeding. Right next to me there was a piece of concrete with a large bit of metalwork sticking out of it. If I'd have fallen a bit differently I reckon I'd have been impaled.
I also narrowly missed being drowned or frozen in the frigid waters of the North Atlantic, by virtue of not being born when the Titanic sank.
My brother dated a Louise. She was attractive but also downright frightening.
Me and a mate and his girlfriend were living in Dublin in 1974.
If it wasn't for the fact that we'd decided to quit our jobs and go hitching around Ireland, we'd have been in the right area, when walking to work, to get blown up when Dublin was bombed on 17 May of that year by the UVF...
This was the usual train I got into London from Reading in the late 1990s.
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Overslept.
Hmmm, I went out with a medic for many years while she was at Uni. She shared a house with a pretty little thing called Louise that a good mate of mine ended up going out with. I once got a distraught call from my ex asking to come and give her some support as Louise had just been rushed to A&E after OD'ing on pills. My mate is now happily married with kids (to a Moira).
My close escape came while exploring a cave system high in the Austrian Alps. We were a party of 5 or 6 and were not far from exiting the cave via an alternative entrance to one we went in via. Exit meant crawling over a rock bridge that spanned a vertical 40 metre deep shaft. Unfortunately the bridge was still covered in a think layer of ice making it impassable without extra rope and bolts (that we didn't have). We noted there was a narrow 4 inch ledge around the edge of the shaft that we could use but it involved an awkward climb at the end of the ledge around the back of a 20 foot by 1 foot wide column of ice. The first members of the party successfully negotiated the ledge and I was bringing up the rear. The chap in front of me had just gone round the back of the ice column when it decided enough was enough and collapsed in front of my eyes. I can still see those tonnes of ice sliding past inches from my face as I am stood on that ledge. How it never knocked me off I will never know. A large fragment did hit one of the lads already across and almost broke his leg. Guess it just wasn't my time that day.
My OH is called Louise. I didn't avoid a life-changing thing though, I married her two years ago.
No kids, so there's that I suppose. And I didn't marry my crazy ex (who isn't called Louise).
Had dinner in the Windows On The World restaurant at the top of the World Trade Centre on the evening of 10 September 2001. Totally gobsmacked by the view and decided to return 1st thing the following morning. After dinner we went to the 'Best Bar in the World' across the lobby, had a few too many cocktails and slept in the following morning. Best hangover ever.
Oh, I know one. Not as impressive as some of the tales on here though.
Climbing a tree as a nipper, the branch I was standing on broke and gouged a great lump of flesh out of my leg as I fell. An inch or two to the left and it would've been a life-changing event, it'd have turned me into a little girl instead.
Louise( Dundee version) mad and angry.
Not taking a lift home from a pissed mate when I was 18, both he and the passenger died when they hit a tree.
Falling asleep through exhaustion on the bench outside Derry Lodge at 5pm on a January Tuesday...2010; huge amounts of snow and bitterly cold. Woken by an old lad who just wandered the hills and was walking to Corrour,took me into Bob Scotts and got hot liquids into me.
Only really know one Louise, she worked with my team for a while, then had to have a hip operation. Lovely girl, ex air cabin staff on Emirates and Etiad Airlines, very poised and graceful with a strong Bristolian accent.
Not got a bad thing to say about her, a really sweet person.
Just for balance, like.
And not really had any near-misses, either, and reading others posts here, I'm definitely getting a 'there but for the grace of the Angels' vibe.
Penny dropped a few years later.
Was it a really impropriate moment? Mid coatus? Did you ever speak to her again?
This needs answers...
As a teenager I was walking along with headphones blasting staring at my feet and for some reason decided to look up saw a car flying towards me grabbed the random kid stood next to me and yanked him back, the car went flying up the kerb and through the wall in front of us, handbrake wasn't on and it had flown out of someone's drive and down the hill... Still no Idea how I did it
Not me (and never *known* s Louise):
Friend overslept and just missed the tube. It was exploded as part of the 7/7 attacks.
My FIL caught United Airlines Flight 175 from Logan airport to NYC on 10th September 2001. The next day the same flight hit the WTC. On 9/11 they had finished their meetings near the WTC and were heading away when the planes struck.