The question
How close have you come to dying?Originally asked
The Guardian, to a different person each week, The Q&A
A recurring Guardian Q&A prompt asked directly across respondents and years.
You answer as yourself. Nobody on FLAPSS answers as anybody else.
I was knocked over by a taxi in Liverpool when I was seven. And I fell off the seventh storey of a car park when I was 10 and broke both legs, my collarbone and my arm.
The Guardian, The Q&A, The Guardian, 21 April 2018 source ↗
When I climbed Mount Kilimanjaro for charity. It was horrendous.
Five years ago, a concrete plug, a little bigger than a baseball, fell off a building on Hollywood Boulevard when I was riding in an open convertible. It shattered the windshield. It really shook me. I still have it on my mantel.
When I got hit by a car in my home town.
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.
Warm contentment, and like nothing else exists.
Liverpool losing the FA Cup final to Wimbledon when I was a kid. It made me cry.
I worked in a TGI Fridays when I was 19 and came to London for the first time. It was absolutely horrible and I got fired after two weeks.
My wife, Hannah. She’s amazing and keeps me in check. I met her 24 years ago at drama school.
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