What's the luckiest thing that has ever happened in YOUR life?

[Blargy]

or lucky to be alive?

 

[Kanelol]

or lucky to be alive?

if you can call it luck

or being alive

 

[Nicknyte]

I have a high misfire rating (approx. 40% tested), and I can occasionally call out misfires.

I am luck.

 

[The Real Gamer]

A few years ago, I was driving home from a friend's house at about ten at night [he lived about twenty minutes away from me, interstate included]. Now usually, I'd have been home doing nothing for a few days, so I decided to go visit him. I heard a clatter, and a clank, so I immediately tried to stop my car. Evidently, my brakes fell off my car, leaving me only the capacity to utilize the handbrake to slowly depreciate my speed. My father was out of country, and I didn't have any money on me, so I drove home without incident. That isn't the lucky part, the next day, I had the calipers, brake pads, and brake discs replaced on my car. I was in an accident a few days later on the interstate due to an idiot in front of me slamming on his breaks. Car was totaled, and the only thing that saved me was fresh brakes.

Best story I've read so far! Pretty incredible.

Count your blessings!

 

[The real little comet]

Back in seventh grade reading class, we had to give present book reports in front of the class. The thing about me back then, was that I was deathly shy. Kept my head down at all times. Spoke to no one I found intimidating. And talking in front of the class could almost be compared to a dentist visit, in my book. I was good with words when only speaking to a small group of friends, but I stuttered and "um" 'd a lot when near large crowds. Rarely raised my voice, too.

Most of the kids had already given their reports, and it was almost my turn. The teacher seemed to have forgotten some of the kids who did and who didn't speak, so she asked the class for a quick reminder. She brought up my name, asking if I had stepped up yet. Miraculously, a kid said that I did give my report already. This was followed by most of the class agreeing with him.
Crisis averted.

 

[Vinylic.]

I got hit by a 74mph son o*bleep* car driver. for some reason, im not human. i got up, and not a single scratch on me. I never used bluetooth since then....

 

[felipe_9595]

i fixed my gamecube lector just adjusting potentiometer. i still have the cube and read all disc i burn flawless (Including a hacked melee and a bunch of emulators)

 

[Faithkeeper]

I got good genes.

 

[TuxingtonIII]

A professor I had for a course once put in a good word for me, and I got a research assistantship doing what I like, with a superstar professor at an awesome grad school :D

My personal life is anything but lucky, but the non-emotional parts of my life rock

 

[ToyzSoldier]

I'm not really sure if I have anything lucky, but a random tidbit that I learned did surprise me once: I was in my university's cafeteria, and the student population there is really chill, so when this one random guy stands up on a chair to announce that it was his friend's birthday, he gets the whole cafeteria to sing Happy Birthday to her. It turned out that that girl was the Princess of Luxembourg @_@

Here's some independent confirmation of this: http://www.royaltyinthenews.com/tag/princess-alexandra-of-luxembourg/

 

[Suspect]

I got hit by a 74mph son o*bleep* car driver. for some reason, im not human. i got up, and not a single scratch on me. I never used bluetooth since then....

I find this extremely hard to believe and unrealistic, especially since I got hit by a car once when I was young and it was going like 15-20 miles per hour. Bruised my leg

 

[The Real Gamer]

From the sounds of things it looks like he was in a car of his own.

No human being would be able to get hit by a 74mph car w/o any scratches.

 

[Suspect]

I hope so ha. The "I got up" part confused me. Had he said "I got out" then I would of figured he was in a car.

edit: well yea, he said he never used bluetooth since then, so he must of been driving and talking not paying attention.

 

[BladeOfHavoc]

I got a copy of melee for free just for standing in a particular place. Second best day of my life!
I also got a free PS2 with controllers, memory cards, and... no games.

 

[Life]

I won my GBA in a Nintendo Power sweepstakes.

Also, America.

 

[3mmanu3lrc]

"Luck" What I define for luck... it's the consequences of a desition someone took in the past, reflected in the present.
Luck does not exist.

 

[The Real Gamer]

"Luck" What I define for luck... it's the consequences of a desition someone took in the past, reflected in the present.
Luck does not exist.

"luck- Good fortune or prosperity; success"

That's an actual definition. You can't really prove if it exists or not.

 

[metalreflectslime]

Finding 3 TI calculators laying around (on 3 separate occasions) when I needed one.

 

[Marth307]

getting laid

This ^^ lol i NEVER thought it'd happen to me but...it did

 

[Luigitoilet]

"Luck" What I define for luck... it's the consequences of a desition someone took in the past, reflected in the present.
Luck does not exist.

Often times, we receive the consequences of someone else's decisions, and we are always at the will of Nature. Luck definitely exists.

 

[The Real Gamer]

This ^^ lol i NEVER thought it'd happen to me but...it did

Man I still remember how much of a pimp I felt like the first time I got a

Spoiler

bj

.

Can't even imagine how good you feel after that. lol

 

[3mmanu3lrc]

Often times, we receive the consequences of someone else's decisions, and we are always at the will of Nature. Luck definitely exists.

I'd say it's more like being at the right place in the right time.

I'm one of those ppl who says that everything happens for a purpose.

Personally, I don't believe in what people use to define by luck.

 

[metalreflectslime]

Born in an upper-middle-class family.

Things could be worse.

This is pretty much exactly what I came in here to say.

I agree with this too since I am a 1st generation university student who is from a very low income poor working class family who aspires to go to graduate school to get a PhD in Chemistry. I feel like being able to live in the USA is lucky enough for me, but to be able to live in California more specifically San Jose which is in Silicon Valley with many job opportunities in industry and science is unreal.

Live in the USA.

^Watching all of the stuff that has currently been going on in Egypt makes me truly appreciate that.

The missile attack in Libya today at 1 PM PST brought me back to this thread.

 

[Sitien maker]

My luckiest thing?
When i found Brawl in a shop...

And when i find 500Scarface in real life and discovered he can be a VERY good friend

 

[zackey]

about 6-7 years ago i invested in a small start up company called facebook haha

 

[1048576]

"Luck" What I define for luck... it's the consequences of a desition someone took in the past, reflected in the present.
Luck does not exist.

You can't reasonably predict all of the consequences a difficult decision will have for you. The unpredictable outcomes are what I call luck. For example, say I live about 1.99 miles from my high school, so I can either take the city bus home or walk. Usually I walk, but today I decide that I'd rather take the bus. If on this same day I decide to do that the bus breaks down and comes an hour later, I would claim this is a result of bad luck. It's certainly possible to predict the bus breaking down if I went to the site and trained to be a mechanic etc..., but it's wholly unreasonable to do so.

 

[3mmanu3lrc]

You can't reasonably predict all of the consequences a difficult decision will have for you. The unpredictable outcomes are what I call luck. For example, say I live about 1.99 miles from my high school, so I can either take the city bus home or walk. Usually I walk, but today I decide that I'd rather take the bus. If on this same day I decide to do that the bus breaks down and comes an hour later, I would claim this is a result of bad luck. It's certainly possible to predict the bus breaking down if I went to the site and trained to be a mechanic etc..., but it's wholly unreasonable to do so.

But taking the bus is the "desition" you took, if you wouldn't have taken the bus, then you wouldn't have been afected by the bus breaking down, therefore you wouldn't have been a victim of what you call "bad luck"

We are architecs of our own future/destiny.

 

[The Real Gamer]

We are architecs of our own future/destiny.

I disagree we as humans cannot control the outcome of every action in our lives.

There is a certain degree of randomness in everything we do. When randomness is put into the equation then the outcome of said equation is always out of our control. Whenever a situation is out of our own control there will always be a certain amount of luck involved.

 

[Luigitoilet]

But taking the bus is the "desition" you took, if you wouldn't have taken the bus, then you wouldn't have been afected by the bus breaking down, therefore you wouldn't have been a victim of what you call "bad luck"

We are architecs of our own future/destiny.

What about disease and mental illness? What about car accidents, freak accidents, murder, thievery? What about the weather?

 

[Kanelol]

People like to view their lives as the single focal point for all of existence. While this may be true in the sense that all philosophical observations and pontifications hinge on the idea of a first person, subjective point of view, people fail to recognize what our reality genuinely is.

Your life isn't the end all be all. Your very existence is but one thread in an infinitely complex tapestry, weaving in and out of literally millions of other peoples lives, regardless of intention. To be honest, I feel like the luckiest thing that's ever happened to me is that I'm here, right now, in the only place I could ever be, to watch this glorious seething orgy of human ebullience unfold. And occasionally take part in aforementioned orgy.

 

[metalreflectslime]

One of the other things I think I am lucky for is how I'm paying for college. For some people if they are super rich, then their parents pay everything, but if they are like at a mid-tier income level, then they have to take out a lot of loans. I have a 0 EFC on my FAFSA and I think I can pay back all of my college loans in a year after I graduate. I know some students who are going to be stuck in 10 years of debt.

 

[The Real Gamer]

No need to sound snobbish here but I'm one of the very few that doesn't have to worry about taking loans for college (thanks to parents). So I guess I can say I'm extremely lucky for that.

I need to count my blessings more...

 

[EpixAura]

I got the entire Monty Python's Flying Circus DVD box set for $10.
And I'm a very lucky guesser on tests.

 

[Olikus]

A guy on my preious school won 1. price on a scratchcard. Around 200.000 dollars when he was 15 years old. Everyone thought of him as the worst ego douche before he won. Manage what we felt after.

 

[xLeafybug =D]

In fifth grade I found $260 sticking out of a empty cigarette carton. Haven't been too lucky since, been a lot less lucky since, actually.

 

[The Real Gamer]

In fifth grade I found $260 sticking out of a empty cigarette carton. Haven't been too lucky since, been a lot less lucky since, actually.

...I've never even found $5 laying around anywhere before.

 

[King of Nukes /\/\/\/\]

Once I was on vacation in Las Vegas, Nevada my mom lost all her money in the casinos keep in mind that this was 2007 and that I was 12 and this was in the Wynn Casino, she took and left me in arcade room upstairs for an hour and nobody was in there so I started lookin around under the machines, and in the coin slots after an hour I found 20$ worth of quarters best like I've had in years, also right after I left the arcade it closed down, and in 2009 I found a 20$ bill inside a mall I stepped on it and discreetly put it away and nobody notice that's the onl real luck I can ever recall having....

 

[Vinylic.]

I find this extremely hard to believe and unrealistic, especially since I got hit by a car once when I was young and it was going like 15-20 miles per hour. Bruised my leg

I'm sorry to tell ya, it's real. I also find this impossible. like last time a flower pot fell straight to my head from the 7th floor in New York. It hurt but didn't bleed. I tripped and broke a glass bottle with my arm. Didn't bleed. I dented a metal bar. A guy squished my hand from the car door so hard by accident when he slammed it. My hand was fine. I fell face down on the cold hard floor. No nosebleed, but it did hurt.

I don't know what else happened to me.

If i was lying, i'd say i kicked two birds sitting on one stone.

 

[Van.]

I can remember finding 20$ lying around sometime. The luckiest thing I can ever remember happening to me was in tenth grade. I was quite lazy, and I tended to copy my math homework the day it was due, during the lunch period before math. I had this down to a science. I carried a sheet of notebook paper with names on it of people who could be persuaded to lend me the homework. I remember I had about 8 names of people I’d borrowed from multiple times. Everyday when lunch started, I’d run around asking through the list of names until someone was in good enough a mood to lend me the homework. Then I would briefly copy it and return it. I’ve had various close calls before, but I never missed more than homework assignments in a semester, which would cause the school to notify my parents.
I remember one time, towards the end of the semester, I had already missed 4 assignments due to complacency in my plagiarism method. The day started out routinely, but I found myself in a tight spot when my 8 contacts were all either without homework or unwilling to share it that day. It was about halfway through lunch. Stressed, I knew I had to cook up a plan. After begging for homework from a slew of kids I didn’t know, I decided to try to doctor my previous nights homework assignment. I looked up the page and problem numbers for the assignment due that day, erased the previous assignment numbers, and replaced them with that nights. I walked into class reasonably confident. To my dismay, the teacher gave a huge speech on how kids were trying to show her last night’s homework (she was famous for giving a cursory glance to homework before giving full credit for it) and pass it off as the last nights. She warned us that she was wise to this trick, and anyone caught in it would be given a detention. I was caught between a rock and a hard place.
I decided to gamble on my disguised homework. The teacher took forever to check it, and my breath was held the whole time, but I was given credit. I believe that that’s the luckiest thing that has ever happened to me, besides being born into the bottom quintile of the lower upper middle class in the U.S.

 

[sooshi shef]

I consider the luckiest thing for me is that I haven't died yet. After all the crazy **** I've done I'm still amazed

I have found an entire wallet before in a parking lot. But I gave it to the store cause I really felt bad for whoever lost it. It had their everything: ID, Drivers License, Credit Cards, the whole shabang!

But all in all I fell like I'm lucky to know all my freinds, having to move only once, and being able to enjoy this world for everything it has to offer, especially Super Smash Bros.