The question
How close have you come to dying?Originally asked
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We used to have one of those gat guns that shot pellets. My friend pretty much had the thing at point-blank range to my temple. It popped out and completed its trajectory about a millimetre from my head.
The Guardian, The Q&A, The Guardian, 24 January 2009 source ↗
I was in a car crash when I was 16, and I have a little scar on my face from smashing the passenger window with my head. If the car had rolled, I would have been dead.
The birth of my daughter.
Rock climbing in Oslo. During abseiling, I hadn’t tied a knot at the end of the rope and almost slid out. I saw the end of the rope at the last second, so I stopped abseiling.
A gig in Chatham.
When I was a child and I got a new toy.
Original Pirate Material.
Infinite money might allow me to achieve unbounded creativity.
Cleaning toilets in a motorway service station.
I'd have not sung along with Yellow Submarine in that infant school hall.
Realising that success wasn't going to keep me happy all my life.
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