Close Calls!

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by David S Edge

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Wow…close calls. We’ve all had a few of these in our lives. There were some that were serious and others, not such a big deal. But a close call is a close call.

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Zooming down the freeway and you come upon an unmarked police car and you know your speeding….They don’t come after you and you have a sigh of relief. You think you just lucked out but it had your blood pressure up for a few minutes, didn’t it? You think to yourself, slow down, you just dodged a speeding ticket!

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Other times it was a more serious one, with maybe some surgery or a medical test on an uncertain lump on your body. The result was negative but…. it had you worried, didn’t it?

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Other times you’re shouting at the TV while watching a sporting event and you can’t get over how the umpire made such a bad ruling on a runner crossing home plate, or maybe the team was just short of a 1st down? That close call got you agitated but in reality… no harm, no foul, as far as consequences to you personally.

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I know I’ve had too many close calls to remember. There was a time in my young life where I was an apprentice carpenter on a house building crew and fell off a third story building and, luckily, landed in a pile of sand. I had a few bruises but it was an eye-opener, considering the possibility of a real injury had I landed on the concrete drive only a few feet away. That was luck.

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My daughter, while driving back to university one weekend, hit some black ice and caused a wreck that totaled her car. She walked away without a scratch; thankfully, she was wearing a seatbelt and it saved her life. People said she was lucky, I say luck had nothing to do with it. She was trained by her dad to always wear her seatbelt. She was prepared for her close call.

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These incidents have an impact on our lives. Maybe the result of one or more, causes us to be more careful when going about our lives. Maybe it changes our perception on a process or way of performing interactions. Maybe it wasn’t you but a close friend or relative that had the close call. Point is…. close calls change us. It can make us avoid those situations in the future as the ultimate deterrence to repeat that dangerous situation.

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What were some of your close calls? Can you remember what, when, and where it happened? Did the incident change the way you did something going forward? Who was with you? What were the details? Can you remember how it changed you?

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