"I will never forget..."

[Eelementary]

*hugs* I am still having trouble dealing with my Grandfather passing, and that was over 10yrs ago, and expected

It's hard, no matter how old you are or what the time frame (>")>

 

[Eelementary]

I actually had people coming up to me at my dad's funeral saying things like, "This must be so hard for your grandmother - no parent should bury their child," and, "It's fortunate he didn't leave behind any young children, because that would devastate them."

People like that are total f**kwits. Seriously - who says that?

 

[Non Terminator]

* The day my dad told us he was leaving. I don't know why but I guess as his son I tried to defend him until it all hit me what was actually going on.
* My wedding day, being panicky in the morning, being drunk and hilarious in the night.
* The scream my wife let out when she found our house was robbed, I can still hear it.
* The thought about my wife being pregnant later that same day for the first time.

 

[thorson1987]

The phone call from my heavily pregnant missus after she caught someone trying to break into our house while she was sleeping.

 

[LeagueNut]

I'll always remember a day back in 2005 when I was driving home from work.

I worked out in Onehunga, close-ish to Mt Smart - a mostly industrial part of town. I was heading north but most of the traffic was heading south towards a major motorway onramp. People were always in one hell of a hurry to get to that onramp as well.

This day I was driving on a four-lane road and just before a set of traffic lights I noticed two young kids (about 6 & 8 yrs I guess) standing on the edge of the road. They looked nervous - like they wanted to run across the road for some reason. One of them was looking really worried. I didn't see them until I was basically past them so I kept on going but glanced in my rear vision mirror to see what they were up to. There were two lanes of traffic in each direction so gaps weren't going to come around often.

The traffic lights were green so I kept on going. Once I was a little further up the road I saw the problem - it looked like one of them had dropped a jersey in the middle of the lanes heading in the other direction. They were still anxiously waiting for a gap in the traffic to dart out and collect it.

A giant 4WD heading south then decided he really didn't want to stop for an orange light, so naturally he picked up his speed a little.

As the 4WD drove on I realised it wasn't a jersey. He continued hoofing it towards the motorway and the two kids could only watch from the side of the road as he drove right over this poor cat. Somehow the cat became caught under the car and flipped up behind it, splashing its guts over the road and leaving the kids standing there like statues.

That was the last image I saw. I drove on basically in a daze for the rest of the 40 minute journey home. I couldn't stop thinking about those poor kids and how cruel life can be sometimes that they'd have to witness something like that.

I'll never forget that day - it's one of the saddest things I've ever seen.

 

[Misanthrope]

One that springs immediately to mind was at the Mud Festival in Korea back in 2008. After living the last 24 years of my life as a bit of a social outcast, I'd finally found my niche in Korea.

I was fresh off my first break-up as an adult and had decided at the last minute to tag along to Korea's most debauched foreigner festival. It was odd being on my way there; on my first night in Korea I remember looking at photos left on the PC in my apartment of all of these good looking, young people having fun in the mud. I remembered thinking there was no chance I'd have that kind of social life.

The day had been long and hot and fun. My mate and I were out beyond the breakers in the Yellow Sea as fireworks exploded overhead and the drunken horde back on the beach oohed and aahed. Later that night I'd get to third base with a stunning American ex-cheerleader who was criminally out of my league, but at that moment I floated out there and realized that not only had I 'made it', but the break-up that had turned me into a mewling emo-kid didn't matter a damn in the grand scheme of things.

It was the moment that cemented my love of travel and life abroad in me. It was a moment of clarity in which I realized no matter what life threw at me - I'd always have the road and the world. The stars and the fireworks and the ocean didn't care about a break-up or a dispute with friends, so why should I?

I think part of the reason I can't go home is that I'm always looking for other moments of such clarity. They've come over the years, but none quite as bright and brilliant as that one bobbing out in the warm waters of the Yellow Sea.

 

[Mong]

Looking straight at a guy who walked into where I was working at 2 am in a Sunday morning and wondering what he was doing, only then to see him pull a balaclava over his face, reveal a rifle that I didn't notice and point it at me demanding all the money.

The worst bit was that I saw what he looked like, I was pretty sure he knew that also. That, and what his intentions were going to be when he got what he came for weighed heavily on me during the time he was there.

Afterwards, and the subsequent court appearances got a bit weird at times, but nothing compared to that thought of "uh oh, we both know I saw him before he covered his face" that was going round and round my head at the time.

Wasn't even meant to be working that night, was doing someone a favour!!

 

[AlwaysGreen]

The time we went to mount splashmore and Dad got stuck in the water slide.

 

[Mong]

That sounds familiar for some reason......

 

[Alba]

My twin nieces were born at 28wks (I think- or 27), in 2009. I remember after one of them passed away, I went to the hospital to visit the other. She was so little, and she had tubes coming out of everywhere. It makes me tear up just thinking about it now. She was in an incubator, and they said I couldn’t hold her yet. I put my hand on her belly, just so she knew there was someone there (her parents are giant POS’s and were absent for 2wks after one of their daughters died, while the other one was fighting for her life), and she wrapped her tiny hand around my finger. I will never forget that as long as I live. My heart was about to explode in my chest I took a pic of my hand on her belly, it is crazy how tiny she was.

 

[kia ora storm]

When I lost 4 of my best friends in a car crash to a drunk driver when I was 20...many years ago.

It was Xmas Eve and they were all in the same car and got hit head on by a guy who was three times over the limit.

I remember walking into the lounge on Xmas morning and hearing the news and their names being read out...can still remember it vividly.

I used to party with these guys every weekend and one of them asked me to go up the North Island in NZ surfing a few days before Xmas and I could not go...that would have been me.

Still gutted...

 

[Joker's Wild]

My twin nieces were born at 28wks (I think- or 27), in 2009. I remember after one of them passed away, I went to the hospital to visit the other. She was so little, and she had tubes coming out of everywhere. It makes me tear up just thinking about it now. She was in an incubator, and they said I couldn?t hold her yet. I put my hand on her belly, just so she knew there was someone there (her parents are giant POS?s and were absent for 2wks after one of their daughters died, while the other one was fighting for her life), and she wrapped her tiny hand around my finger. I will never forget that as long as I live. My heart was about to explode in my chest I took a pic of my hand on her belly, it is crazy how tiny she was.

My 2 were only 4 weeks premmie but if I had lost either of them I do not know how I would have coped


I think there is something in my eye

 

[Alba]

My 2 were only 4 weeks premmie but if I had lost either of them I do not know how I would have coped


I think there is something in my eye

it's so sad, and there were so many babies in the NicU. I lost my shit when she died, while her parents were too busy calling centrelink asking for their payout so they could buy some new clothes and go drinking. I'm lucky I'm not in gaol after that day. Thankfully, the surviving twin, is in the custody of my ma. Still has breathing difficulties and she is still so very small.

 

[Alba]

When I lost 4 of my best friends in a car crash to a drunk driver when I was 20...many years ago.

It was Xmas Eve and they were all in the same car and got hit head on by a guy who was three times over the limit.

I remember walking into the lounge on Xmas morning and hearing the news and their names being read out...can still remember it vividly.

I used to party with these guys every weekend and one of them asked me to go up the North Island in NZ surfing a few days before Xmas and I could not go...that would have been me.

Still gutted...

that's awful I'm so sorry to hear that

 

[sensesmaybenumbed]

My twin nieces were born at 28wks (I think- or 27), in 2009. I remember after one of them passed away, I went to the hospital to visit the other. She was so little, and she had tubes coming out of everywhere. It makes me tear up just thinking about it now. She was in an incubator, and they said I couldn?t hold her yet. I put my hand on her belly, just so she knew there was someone there (her parents are giant POS?s and were absent for 2wks after one of their daughters died, while the other one was fighting for her life), and she wrapped her tiny hand around my finger. I will never forget that as long as I live. My heart was about to explode in my chest I took a pic of my hand on her belly, it is crazy how tiny she was.

Well, I'm ready to award the douche award for shit I've seen today.
Premmy babies at that age are behind the 8 ball for life bad enough as it is without having to deal with that.

 

[Alba]

Well, I'm ready to award the douche award for shit I've seen today.
Premmy babies at that age are behind the 8 ball for life bad enough as it is without having to deal with that.

I know. I don't even get how anyone can be such merkins when it comes to kids.

 

[urban eel]

now i understand the love you show for her on instagram

 

[Alba]

I actually don't really have pics of her.. She's a little shithead and won't sit still for a pic!! She's 3 now and I moved here when she was only 6mths old. She is very affectionate with me though, which I like to think is her remembering my Mum says she always kisses my picture. My nieces that are on insta mostly are my 7yo & 4yo babes. I'll put one up of her now. It's a pic from just before I left, you can see the scar on her nose from the tubes.

 

[DB]

So I used to drive cabs for a living. One day I was driving past a school, where I saw a fight developing on the basketball courts. Needless to say, things got very heated, and two of the blokes pulled a knife on one other guy. I knew this guy was done for. I ended up being one second away from jumping out of my cab to do something, where the one guys Mum comes running down to the courts, grabs her son by the ear, and drags him away. This was hilarious to watch, and the two other guys thought so too.

At this stage of my life I was done with driving around this area of town, so I decided to change it up, and had more of a Airport to CBD run. Well my first shift at the Airport, I pull up to the cab rink, and lo and behold, it is the guy who nearly got stabbed. I was relieved to see him alive, even though he had no idea who he was. I started to explain to him the entire story, but the bastard interupted me and screamed, "Yo Homes to Bel Air."

 

[Scott Gourley's Lovechild]

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