[nyplayer33]

In the last 5 years or so. Something totaally awesome and unexpected. I have been on aol chatting for quite some time. I was speaking to a girl out of state..she is 1000 miles away from me. She is cute and is about 9 years younger and has her own house paid off already. Now to the shocking and um wow moment..birthday was recent..my bday and she insisted on sending me something. We never met eye to eye..she is very cute and i'm not...ok here goes..i get this envelope and open it...5 one hundred dollar bills...500 bucks...i thought i was in twilight zone...ok your turn

[LLXC]

Getting into a particular grad school.

[robmpink]

In the last 5 years or so. Something totaally awesome and unexpected. I have been on aol chatting for quite some time. I was speaking to a girl out of state..she is 1000 miles away from me. She is cute and is about 9 years younger and has her own house paid off already. Now to the shocking and um wow moment..birthday was recent..my bday and she insisted on sending me something. We never met eye to eye..she is very cute and i'm not...ok here goes..i get this envelope and open it...5 one hundred dollar bills...500 bucks...i thought i was in twilight zone...ok your turn

[robmpink]

Wait, wondering how I never ended up in jail after all of the lifetime damage I have caused.

[flyingillini]

It was when I got arrested in TJ and held hostage up in the hills for 31 hours, terrified the hell out of me and didn't think I was going to make it out alive...

[head_strong]

finding out Santa Claus was not real

[bondguy007]

Not to bring the mood down or anything, but within the last 5 years...probably when I found out my mom had passed away of terminal cancer. Expected in her case, but still shocking for a kid just starting college at the time.

[nikevols]

messing around and getting a triple double

[CallMeChip]

Winning my first 3-teamer for $1000. $5,000 gone and 3 years later I'm still chasing it.

[Gruntworker]

also something cancer related.... fck cancer

[DennisGreen]

Seeing some clown I knew from high school driving his new sports bike 100 miles an hour in a residential zone and smashing into an SUV backing out of their driveway. Splat would be the best word to describe it. RIP.

[antan80]

When I won about 210$ in one casino from 5 free spins on a slot

[Roadtrip635]

I went to college near the beach and one Friday we had a big beach party. I was planning on going home to visit the family and party with some friends, but decided to stop by the beach party before I left. We're all standing around drinking and BSing and I see my buddy Troy getting his sailboard ready. I talk with Troy for a few minutes before he hit the water, I remember telling him to be careful there was supposed to be a big storm coming in and I'd see him after I got back after the weekend.
I was on the road when that storm came in and it was bad, very heavy winds and rain. I get back to the dorms Sunday night to find out that Troy was missing, went sailboarding and hadn't been seen since. Turns out I was the last person to talk to him. His sailboard was found off the coast of Louisiana about 10 days after he went missing and part of his torso was found near Port Aransas about a week after that.

[Jimmy Proffett]

One time I grabbed a set of conduits running down some stadium lights in my hometown's softball field. Guess it wasn't grounded right or something; got quite the jolt.

[warriorfan707]

best friend died

[Tommy_de1st]

I witnessed when one of my friend ran onto the soccer pitch

[Nomocino]

911 without a doubt

[Ibrakadabra]

Going to the toilet.

[Ninersnut]

My balls dropped

[paintball1084]

graduating college and meeting my wonderful girlfriend

[Maniac]

Pulling my friends lifeless body out of a car wreck and trying (unsuccessfully) to resuscitate him. Driver was going to fast on wet roads after a big storm one night and hit a massive puddle in a dip in the road, lost control and span out until we hit a bank of grass at the side of the road and ended up rolling over a couple times before coming to rest upside down in a couple of feet of standing water in the middle of a bogged down field.

Somehow I came away without a scratch, the driver and the guy in the back with me had minor injuries, but my mate in the passenger seat directly in front of me was knocked unconscious during the roll and was either killed outright from that or knocked out and then drowned in the time it took us to get him free from the car and out of the water.

The thing that really messed with my head for a long time was the conversation we had before getting in the car as he called shotgun just as I jumped into the passenger seat - he was adamant that he called it and wanted to sit in the front, I initially refused but eventually gave in and jumped into the back seat behind him...a decision which ended up saving my life in the end, but likely at the cost of his.

Took a long time to come to terms with that, and even now, years later, I dont think I am fully over it...

[Blax0r]

Getting into a particular grad school.

Stanford's not too shabby.

Probably getting into a decently prestigious college for me; I wasn't exactly a great student through high school.

[mw00]

In the last 5 years or so. Something totaally awesome and unexpected. I have been on aol chatting for quite some time. I was speaking to a girl out of state..she is 1000 miles away from me. She is cute and is about 9 years younger and has her own house paid off already. Now to the shocking and um wow moment..birthday was recent..my bday and she insisted on sending me something. We never met eye to eye..she is very cute and i'm not...ok here goes..i get this envelope and open it...5 one hundred dollar bills...500 bucks...i thought i was in twilight zone...ok your turn

guess you can say shocking so far...the most shocking one is when you find out it's really some 40 year old pervert guy you were actually talking to..

[ttwarrior1]

close one i guess but 3 way tie

1.when my mom stabbed my dad and i saw it
2. when i was in the 2nd grade and was hung to die in the restroom at school but lived
3. when i did a 15 team parlay for fun, was up by 18 pts with 5 min left in a game and ended up losing when other team went on a 24 -2 run to end the game and i lost out on thousands

[LLXC]

Stanford's not too shabby.

Probably getting into a decently prestigious college for me; I wasn't exactly a great student through high school.

Ah, which one?

Yea, I was a horrible student till undergrad which is why I ended up at state. I didn't think I had a chance to get into Stanford for graduate school though, and was absolutely shocked when I did.

[COYLO]

my life lol. if i wrote a book about my life it would be a best seller, one of my most shocking moments was getting caught in the crossfire from an m60 when i was 18 - i only went to the local take out to get something to eat

everybody hit the deck except me, bullets literally whizzed past my head im talking mm not inches, dopey mutha f me thought it was fireworks lol.

[Blax0r]

Ah, which one?

Johns Hopkins and Cornell for undergrad/grad respectively; getting into Cornell wasn't too much of a shock given my undergrad performance though.

[PDW]

When David Lee Roth left Van Halen.

I have never been the same since.

[SEAHAWKHARRY]

Me and mt business partner had a dish network business made 850,000 a year business did. Was in year three almost in the black...business partner gets arrested as bb gun sniper on 15 freeway gets charged with 70 felonies this was last june.. 1 hr after it made tv news received phone call from dish network all contracts canceled ..our business wad shut down due to negative publicity...lost everything

[NrmlCurvSurfr]

I survived a lightning strike without a scratch. My friend was less than 10 ft away. His face was priceless when I got up. It looked like he was looking at a ghost. I have never seen terror on someone's face like he had on his.

[JerseyLove]

Crashing my car, or family members death. No need to get into details but I praise the posters who do!

[bozeman]

i have 2:
1. i was falling from a tree when i was 6 or 7 - from the top of it, but i didn't break anything, cause on the way down i got stuck between two branches with my neck it hurt and i still have small scars, but i would never think that one can get stuck in such a way without breaking a neck, and avoiding falling down.
2. i was skiing in Montana and when circling a mountain i was blinded for a moment and flew off the ski track and off the whole mountain. It was steep like crazy, so i was hanging on one of my skies and the second one was far lower stuck in snow - i couldn't move up, cause i was hanging like alpinist in almost vertical position. The only person who had seen me was the skateboarder behind ( i was the last among my buddies) - he rescued me and told me i was blinded by snow that fell of the mountain

[macoeric]

I went to college near the beach and one Friday we had a big beach party. I was planning on going home to visit the family and party with some friends, but decided to stop by the beach party before I left. We're all standing around drinking and BSing and I see my buddy Troy getting his sailboard ready. I talk with Troy for a few minutes before he hit the water, I remember telling him to be careful there was supposed to be a big storm coming in and I'd see him after I got back after the weekend.
I was on the road when that storm came in and it was bad, very heavy winds and rain. I get back to the dorms Sunday night to find out that Troy was missing, went sailboarding and hadn't been seen since. Turns out I was the last person to talk to him. His sailboard was found off the coast of Louisiana about 10 days after he went missing and part of his torso was found near Port Aransas about a week after that.

Man that gave me goosebumps...
sorry that had to happen to you.