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I suspect many of us are lucky to have survived childhood (and young adulthood). What was your scariest moment?

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[–] DessertStorms@kbin.social 5 points 1 year ago

What we thought at the time was a terrorist attack but turned out later to be an unfortunate accident involving a truck carrying something explosive, missed me and my family by literal seconds (as in it happened where we were just sitting and if we hadn't moved, would have hit us directly). The driver sadly didn't make it, but somehow no one else was killed or too badly hurt. But the noise, not just the explosion, but the kind of screaming you hear right after, and the people covered in blood and in shock, those things never leave you.