Have you ever had a 'lottery' moment?

[gbrice75]

What I mean is - have you ever had something happen to you where the chances of said happening were on par with hitting the lottery? A one in a million type scenario? I'll give you mine (btw, too bad I didn't actually hit the fvckin lottery):

7 months prior to my wedding, I was 255lbs fat and way out of shape. I lost a considerable amount of weight in 7 months for that wedding (was down to 187lbs at the time). When I was fitted for my wedding ring, I was still in my 'weight loss' phase, so naturally the ring was a bit loose by the time the wedding rolled around.

Right after the wedding, my wife and I went to St. Lucia for our honeymoon. We did all sorts of activities on a daily basis, one of them was snorkeling (I had never been before). Well like an idiot, I went with the wedding ring on. We rode in the boat out to the snorkeling spot in the Carribean Sea (Rodney Bay actually), got off the boat and swam out a bit to start the adventure. Not 60 seconds later, WHOOP! The ring goes sliding off my finger and drops an estimated 12 feet down and lands right on top of a rock. DAMN!!! Ok, no worries, I can see the ring with my goggles. I'm no kind of diver (and I had a huge float on), so I pop my head out of the water to alert the guide and whoever else could hear me of what happened. A few people start to make their way over and I pop my head back in the water - WTF!!! No sign of the ring anywhere... I DRIFTED! I start to panic a bit, then think ok, it's just a ring, was only a few hundred bucks, no huge deal - but then again, it's my wedding ring that i've only had for 3 days and was blessed (i'm not religious at all, but it meant something to my wife) so it IS special.

To make a long story short, I along with the guide and rest of the people snorkeling spent the next 45 mins looking for this effing ring. I basically ruined everybody's trip as they were essentially snorkeling for a ring instead of looking at everything else they came there for.

You have to think about it... try looking for a damn ring on the ocean floor... with rocks, fish, plants etc. EVERYWHERE. It was impossible... I never gave up but started to lose hope with every minute that ticked by. Finally, the guide called out for everybody to start heading back to the boat - our time was up. I was really disappointed but accepted that my ring was gone.

As I start heading back, I do so with my face in the water... one last attempt. HOLY FVCKING SHIT!!! I see a little 'gleam' on the top of a rock. IT'S MY RING!!! I scream and flail my arms around but make sure to plunge my face right back in the water so I don't lose sight of it again like the first time.

A dude swam over, dived down and recovered my ring. CAN YOU IMAGINE THE CHANCES? Finding a ring on the ocean floor... after searching for 45 mins to no avail?

Now, the ring means SO MUCH to me... so much more than just a wedding ring. It's my 'lottery' moment!

What's yours?

[calgarian]

when my son was born and first thing he did made a dbl bicep pose (of course he was stretching but it looked like that to me )

[RaginCajun]

good stuff! haven't had mine yet, but one has to happen soon!

[terraj]

Oh man....so close to my tale of a lost wedding ring it's not funny.

Been married a couple of years, we got together with a bunch of friends, early start, 5 hour drive and we are at this awesome beach. I hit the sea with my snorkeling gear and spear (I'm the only one with gear), I'm around 200 meters off shore, where there is an artificial wave break.... I drag myself onto the wave break, shake the water off my hands and the ring heads straight to the bottom of the sea. Water depth of around 3 to 3.5 meters, sand and rock bottom......just over 3 hours of me going up and down looking for my ring, I was not going until I got it back.....and there it was. Man, sunburnt and very tried when I got back to the beach.

[Standby]

i once made a basketball shot with my eyes closed

im jk gb ill try to think of something for you

[zimmy]

my father and I have luck in regards to severe auto accidents.

My father was hit by a train going full speed driver side on. No broken bones.

I ran a camaro head on into a brick wall going 90+ mph having the unsecure T tops shatter on the back of my head. Only a mild concusion.


I think those are pretty much lottery moments eh?

[Hazard]

I guess it's not a lottery moment but it's pretty funny lol

I hada surgery to be at one morning and I was already running late at home. I let my dog outside to goto the bathroom and I went to start my car. On my way back in the house I left the gate to my deck open but didn't realize it. So I get back in the house and head to the bedroom to finish getting ready. I got all my stuff out of the closet and realized my dog was still outside. So I shut the closet doors and go out to get her. Well guess what..... she was nowhere to be found. My wife came outside and was crying in the middle of the road - calling her name..... I got in my car and drove all over town looking for her. I was so heartbroken...... Finally I had to give up..... I couldn't miss this surgery. So I get home and the wife is still crying..... I had to tell ehr that I had to goto work and she flips out cuz we havn't found our dog yet. I went back inside to grab my things and realized I forgot my tie int he closet...... so I go into the bedroom and open the closet doors and theres my fvcking dog! Sitting there with her big eyes looking at me lmao!

I guess she followed me into the house and into the bedroom without me noticing and she even followed em into the closet and I closed the doors on her before she could get out lololol! What a friggin relief it was when I found her..... brought tears to my eyes - shes my baby girl

~Haz~

[buffgator]

I had been driving a car that was worth less than 1000 dollars for the last 2 years and i was spending money non stop keeping it running. I recently saw a truck i really liked for 7000 dollars and only was budgeting myself 5k for a new car. I called and offered them 4k and they turned me down. A month later they called and asked if i would still give them 4k & now i have a new car(used) truck....i feel very grateful now to have a vehicle that doesn't embarrass me!

[LGM]

I used mine up in 3rd grade...

I screwed around in 3rd grade during a scantron test, and didn't do anything.. Teacher made me stay after school to finish, and I couldn't miss the bus. So I just randomly filled in ABCD on the paper, and turned it in in about 25 minutes... Over 100 questions!

I got an 89 on it! (no, I'm not shitting you.)

[buffgator]

I used mine up in 3rd grade...

I screwed around in 3rd grade during a scantron test, and didn't do anything.. Teacher made me stay after school to finish, and I couldn't miss the bus. So I just randomly filled in ABCD on the paper, and turned it in in about 25 minutes... Over 100 questions!

I got an 89 on it! (no, I'm not shitting you.)

sounds like me in my biology classes!

[JohnnyVegas]

When I was 14 I went to a sleep over at a friend's. I was swinging an axe into the grass in his back yard when a kid came over and started putting his foot down in the place I was hitting between swings. He would pull his foot out before my swing hit the ground/his foot. For some reason, he didn't pull his foot away and the axe went between two of his toes and at the top of the axe head so it didn't go up into his foot either. The axe head was just perfectly stuck in the space between his big toe and his index toe. I still get queasy thinking about it.

Wrecked my motorcycle at around 40mph...in a tank top and jeans. I got to work early and decided to go get OJ and left my jacket and gloves behind. Had some road rash, but no broken bones. Not even a broken finger from when I broke my fall (at speed) with my hands.

Once threw an old spoon I found as hard as I could at a cinder block wall from 30 feet way. It perfectly stuck in a crack. It was like something out of a movie.

When I was a kid, I found a gold bracelet, a gold necklace and charm, and $60 in cash all in the span of one week. The cash was $5 and $10 bills just blowing down an alley behind my house. Not the lottery, but a good haul for a 13 year old kid.

[oscarjones]

First of all, Gbrice - nice story! And the rest were pretty entertaining as well.

When I was 14 I went to a sleep over at a friend's. I was swinging an axe into the grass in his back yard when a kid came over and started putting his foot down in the place I was hitting between swings. He would pull his foot out before my swing hit the ground/his foot. For some reason, he didn't pull his foot away and the axe went between two of his toes and at the top of the axe head so it didn't go up into his foot either. The axe head was just perfectly stuck in the space between his big toe and his index toe. I still get queasy thinking about it.

Wrecked my motorcycle at around 40mph...in a tank top and jeans. I got to work early and decided to go get OJ and left my jacket and gloves behind. Had some road rash, but no broken bones. Not even a broken finger from when I broke my fall (at speed) with my hands.

Once threw an old spoon I found as hard as I could at a cinder block wall from 30 feet way. It perfectly stuck in a crack. It was like something out of a movie.

When I was a kid, I found a gold bracelet, a gold necklace and charm, and $60 in cash all in the span of one week. The cash was $5 and $10 bills just blowing down an alley behind my house. Not the lottery, but a good haul for a 13 year old kid.

Man you are lucky about the bike crash. I went down a couple times and results were a broken arm and totaled bike. Not too good.

On a happier note, though, I went partying in Amsterdam one year with a couple friends. Naturally, we ended up hitting the red light district and visiting a few fancy clubs. My best friend Josh wandered into a beat with crazy music, and you could see all the people wearing crazy costumes to fit the mood, how exciting, we thought! So, my buddies and I followed Josh into this new and foreign world of bizarre and started jellin'.

There was a huge amount of smoke from various fog machines that were scattered around the club hall, and in the celing. Between the lights and smoke it was hard to really make out what was going on inside. When our eyes, and other senses, finally adjusted to the atmosphere I stared in wise amazement at just exactly what we had managed to subject ourselves to! Fish net stockings, shirtless, leather thongs, chains, gags, yeah... let your imagination tell the rest. I started signaling to my bros that it's time to leave because this is getting weird! They all inclined their heads towards the door, with startled looks upon their faces... but...

Low and behold, Josh has gone amiss! Where the **** is this dude? First he drags us into this weird fetish club, where we are pretty much being groped, looking like fresh meat for the crowds, and now he's just gone fvcking missing! So, my buds and I started searching frantically for this Josh mothafvcka and then out of nowhere, there's a loud BOOM and the lights flicker off, and it's pitch black for a few moments. Then another BOOM and lights flash back on, and there's a stage where a curtain had been drawn back....

Now, I know you can't guess what is happening on stage... I tapped my buds on the shoulder and got their attention, and directed their view towards the stage, and they all just stared perplexed as I initially was. At this point, we're all debating what to do! I mean, you have the hilarity on one hand, the hilarity of having your best friend strapped to a chair with tape, and a gag in his mouth on stage, and a tall black woman with whips and various other torture devices, and sex toys, doing slow circles around him, and then you have the "oh shit what if that was me?" thoughts going through your mind, and the realization that it's your best bro who's up there?

Part of me wanted to let him have all that ebony vixen could throw at him, because after all, he was the one who got us lost in this escapade to begin with! So, we decided on a group effort in the end. The 3 of us rushed the stage, 2 of my buds went for the girl and pinned her and her associate to the ground, literally football tackle style, and I picked Josh up off his chair, swung him around so hard that he broke out of his taped bonds. Then together we all hurdled over the drunken fetish minions of the club, Josh still with a gag ball in his mouth, and flew out the exit before the bouncers even had a chance to pull up their leather straps.

So, it wasn't really a luck thing, but more of a one in a million circumstances for sure, at least in my experience.

Anyway so Josh and I were going to head back to Amsterdam next year, who wants to come?

[JohnnyVegas]

Man you are lucky about the bike crash. I went down a couple times and results were a broken arm and totaled bike. Not too good.

Ha! I think I am lucky to not have cut that kid's toes off! And no thanks on going to Amsterdam...you guys go to places with gag balls.

[oscarjones]

Ha! I think I am lucky to not have cut that kids toes off! And no thanks on going to Amsterdam...you guys go to places with gag balls.

Yeah gag balls aren't as fun as they seem...

[zaggahamma]

makes me want to get a metal detector

[DizzKid]

I laid my bike down going about 40mph ... it hit the pavement then slid into a ditch. Had a couple bruises and tore up a few pieces of plastic. All and all it wasn't a bad first fall.

I'll post a little more later. I have several of these moments.

[Times Roman]

More than half a life time ago, I was standing in a rather long line waiting to get into an Aerosmith concert. the line was inching along, and we were pretty lit. We were starting to get close, so I decide to get my ticket out. But, I'm not finding it? My buddies are like... what's wrong? (I was probably 16). I'm like.... i can't find my fukken ticket!!! the line speed starts picking up. I'm rifling through my pockets repeatedly, searching in vain. After 5 or so desperate minutes, desperate, I look down on the ground. What's this? Could it be? I bend over to pick it up, and sure as shit, another fukken ticket!!!! Everybody is like.... "way to go Roman"!!!! Obviously it wasn't mine.... we had moved almost 50 feet since I had lost it. So I accepted the gift, and enjoyed the show.

....... what do you think the odds are?

[Renesis]

The girl and I bought a simple 5 dollar lotto ticket. Forgot about it and were waiting on my paycheck to pay some bills. My hours are cut due to school and we were hurting for cash when we remembered the ticket. Sure as shit she starts scratching bam! 1000 bucks she freaks I tell her to keep scratching BAM! another 1000 wooohooo 2000 dollars richer for the day lol.

[boz]

I beg to differ if this is what u would call a lottery moment brice, but hey if it means that much to u, can call it what ever u like

[DSM4Life]

I have one for me boyfriend. He NEVER plays the lottery. One day he goes to the deli to order a sandwich. While he is waiting he decided to buy a scratch-it ticket. Bam 10K ! (no joke).

[goinglong]

I bought a piece of equipment ($40M) for my work. A few months later a major component fails on it and this leads to all sorts of government and internal investigations. When it was all said and done, the manufacturer told us that it was the thirteenth failure of that component on that type of equipment in over 13 million hours of operation. That is my one in a million. I make it over to their factory once in a while and if I bring it up, the reaction is: "That was YOU?!" One of my best buds had failure #9.

[goinglong]

Once threw an old spoon I found as hard as I could at a cinder block wall from 30 feet way. It perfectly stuck in a crack. It was like something out of a movie.

I read "old spoon" as "old person." Maybe I should get some sleep! Lol.

[Hazard]

I have one for me boyfriend. He NEVER plays the lottery. One day he goes to the deli to order a sandwich. While he is waiting he decided to buy a scratch-it ticket. Bam 10K ! (no joke).

and BAM...... there's your down payment for the house haha

~Haz~