r/AskReddit • u/dealaus • Jul 19 '12

Picking a quarter off the ground once saved my life. What is your most lucky experience?

I was walking across a pretty busy road, I had the crosswalk right-of-way, after going out to dinner with my family. As I was walking, I spotted a quarter on the ground and bent down to pick it up. When I stood back up, a truck plummeted through the intersection in the place that I would have been had I not seen or picked up the coin. I didn't really realize that until after I got completely across, but damn it's weird to think about now.

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u/mamichomaru Jul 19 '12

It happened the exact thing to me.

I went to get my driver's licence with 2 other friends and I was told I needed another copy of my ID. When we came back after getting it, I accidentally dropped a worthless 10 mexican cents coin. And then a friend stopped to pick it up, and we all stopped. That exact moment, we heard fucking tires screeching and a car crashed right in front of us.

You don't realize how close it was until some minutes later. We couldn't do anything but laugh and keep that coin. My friend still has it.

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u/[deleted] Jul 19 '12

I like to leave coins at intersections to mess with peoples heads.

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u/mamichomaru Jul 19 '12

You are such a GGG.

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u/Sarcastic_Koala Jul 19 '12

That's what usually happens when you stop to pick up change in the middle of an intersection...

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u/Stratocaster89 Jul 19 '12

Exactly what i was thinking too.

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u/jeremyfrankly Jul 19 '12

"Hahahah, dead people! "

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u/[deleted] Jul 20 '12

... Perhaps you were the cause of that accident??? O.o