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20 people share the wild moments they said or thought something right before it happened.

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Unfortunately, we can't just speak things into existence on a whim.

That being said, there are rare situations where a passing statement acts as a sort of prophecy, and you watch the statement become truth. These moments can jolt us awake with a renewed sense of just how chaotic the universe is, and how the invisible strings holding everything together may be more meta than we realize.

In a popular Ask Reddit thread, people shared the craziest moments where they said or thought something right before it happened.

Truly, the world is a strange place.

1. From OP:

When I was 17 a friend and I were driving around town in his 80-something Toyota Tercel. This car was a total piece of crap and had had a seriously loud knock in the engine for weeks. We had been out tooling around for maybe an hour and the knocking noise was getting to me. We're sitting at a red light in the center of a 3 lane road about 20 minutes from home when I exclaimed,

"Wouldn't it be some sh*t if this piece of crap just went BANG and blew the hell up?"

As the light turns green my friend chuckled and said something like, "Heh, yeah, that would suck."

The car in front of us starts to move and my buddy pushes the gas and BANG, that piece of shit threw a piston and died right in the middle of the road. He looked at me like, "WTF did you do that for?" and we both laughed our as*es off for a few seconds. We pushed his car into a nearby church parking lot with the help of a few onlookers and he took the plates off and we left it there. That was over a decade ago and as far as I know he never heard another thing about it. No idea what eventually became of that car.

2. From sorrowfool:

I worked at a Starbucks in a Lucky Grocery store. We had a guy that would come in 4-5 times a week and get a small coffee (we would give it to him for the refill price) and sit in the store for hours. He was homeless and smelled pretty bad, was pretty scruffy looking with long hair and a beard, but he seemed nice enough. After like a year of this, the store manager came to me and told me if I saw Nathan (the homeless guy) to call him (the store manager) because he wanted to talk to him.

That night I had a dream that I was at work and Nathan was there as well, but as an employee. Nothing super eventful about the dream, until I went to work the next day and saw we had a new employee. He was sitting at the table in front of the Starbucks' kiosk and one of my co-workers was talking to him. I didn't really pay much attention, until my co-worker called me over and said, "Doesn't he look completely different without his beard?" Mind blown.

Apparently, my store manager figured that if he was going to be chilling in the store all day he might as well give him a job. He bought him some clothes, got him a haircut and a shave, a gym membership for showers, and started helping him look for a place to stay. I really never had a positive or negative opinion on the store manager before that point, but mad respect for that.

5 years later, Nathan still works there. He outlasted me.

3. From BrainTroubles:

I would never believe this story happened if I wasn't present for it. When I was in high school, me and a buddy were driving back from long beach with his mom. About halfway home, this asshole starts riding his moms rear bumper. She gets really nervous and tries to get out of his way by changing lanes, but mid lane chance, the cock guns it and changes lanes around her, scaring the f*ck out of us and nearly forcing her into the center divider.

Well he then gets in front of us, and slows the f*ck down to like 1 mph higher than we were going, and his mom is almost in tears and is just screaming "What the f*ck a*shole?" So my buddy goes "Don't worry about it mom, we'll all laugh our a*ses off when he blows his tire and wrecks his car right now." The words had barely left his mouth when BOOM! His front left tire completely blows and he tanks his shiny Nissan right into the k-rail. We had to swerve to avoid hitting him.

Needless to say it was an eerie ride home...

4. From CarbonCtrlc:

Watching Jeopardy, the final jeopardy subject was "Science". During the commercial break, I said "I bet it's Tungsten".

The answer was Tungsten.

5. From SevenFourteen:

I was about six years old and playing with my brand new pet bunny rabbits that my dad had bought for me after church. I turned to him and said, "Daddy, I'm glad that you and Mommy are still married. So many of my friends' parents are divorced." My dad responds, "Actually, that's something we need to talk about."

And that's how I learned my parents were getting divorced.

6. From AimForTheHead:

When I was 14 or 15 I was sitting with this girl I just started hanging out with. We're waiting for our ride home and she talks about missing her brother, and I said something about him showing up for the Christmas not realizing he was very estranged (3 years) from the family. Awkward moments ensue, we get rides home no big deal, flashfoward to 7am Christmas morning, she calls freaking out because he showed up at her family's door.

7. From think_happyness:

The first laptop I ordered arrived a day early when I was out of the house, so I came home to find the little slip on my door saying they would try again tomorrow. The next day I woke up, only to find that I had slept in and missed the shipment again. I was pretty annoyed but just set my alarm for the next day. For some reason, I miss the FedEx guy for the third day in a row and am just fuming. I decide to go for a run to vent my anger and while running I think to myself, "Wouldn't it be awesome if I saw the FedEx truck and got my laptop?" After half an hour, I turn the corner of an intersection and see the FedEx truck and the FedEx guy walking towards it. I excitedly dash up to him and explain my situation to him in while gasping for air. He remembers the package, finds it, and then hands it to me after I sign for it. Such a good day.

8. From luckismySKILL:

Sitting in class, prof pulls up WMP to play us a video on improper cell signalling. He pauses, with the mouse hovering over "Resume Previous Playlist" button and I think "Oh sh*t, what if it's porn? That'd be hilarious"

Turns out it was more than just porn, it was some intense analing with a (ridiculously huge) dildo. Lol'd hard.

9. From bebemaster:

Sitting at lunch with some change. I ask my friend "How many times, on average, do you think I would have to toss these coins for them to all land on heads?" I had about 7-8 coins. He starts getting into the math required and thinking out loud about it. I comment, "You know I bet it's just one." and toss the coins. They all end up heads. "Yep I was right it was only one."

10. From weirds:

I was talking with a group of friends outside an Expendables show in Santa Cruz. We were smoking cigs and making jokes when one of my buddies gets our attention and says, "Watch this, I'm going to pull this girl's shirt down, with my mind." He made a funny concentrating face and we all laughed and looked at a girl about 15 feet away from us on the porch. She was mid conversation with what looked like a good friend (who was male), and slowly but surely her loose top slid over, with each hand motion or exclamation her top inched over slightly.

After about a minute and a half her right nipple was fully exposed. We cheered and laughed and couldn't believe it. The guy who was talking to her noticed but was too embarrassed to say anything. She finally put it away when some chick from a nearby table made a comment about it so loud that she took notice. But she was standing there with her boob out for a few minutes. By the end of it, everyone on the porch was looking at it. She was a really hot girl with a great mid-sized rack, so I guess that happens a lot (people staring). I kinda felt bad because she got really embarrassed, but wow was it funny.

11. From Badhugs:

My friend and I were at Friday's, and he was being super rambunctious and obnoxious while eating his salad. For some reason, he thought it would be a good idea to poke a tomato w/ his fork, and then fling it at me as hard as he could. Drawing his fork up passed his shoulder, my friend seriously whipped this tomato across the table with all his might.

My first reaction was to sort of turn my head, anticipating the "THWACK!" sound the wet vegetable would make as it hit me. But that sound never came, there was no sudden thud, and no tomato hit me. I sat there, fork in hand, wondering WTF just happened.

Somehow, that giant hunk of tomato had zoomed across the table and stuck itself onto my fork in the exact same way it was on his. Had we been professional lacrosse players planning the perfect pass, we couldn't have executed it as flawlessly as it happened.

It was the most beautiful demonstration of Newtonian physics my then 17-year-old self had ever experienced.

12. From Petra-Arkanian:

In college, I was watching Eurotrip with my buddy. The Pope had been sick, and during the part where they make Vatican City think the Pope is dead, I turned to my friend and said, "Man, wouldn't it be weird if the Pope died while we were watching this?" His time of death was almost exactly then, I found out the next day.

TL;DR: I killed Pope John Paul II.

13. From notforeverlonely:

Went to college and worked at a grocery store in Bellingham, WA. My coworkers and I were talking in the break room before a shift and the subject of celebrities came up. We talked about how celebrities might be a-holes because they have to deal with sycophants constantly bothering them. Then someone brought up Ryan Stiles (who lives near Bellingham and is owner of the Upfront Theater) and how he never would shop at the store by the college campus (probably because he doesn't want to be hassled by college noobs).

After our conversation, we left to go to our checkstands and within a few minutes Ryan Stiles walks in. Unbelievable. Regular guy - wears blue jeans sneakers and casual shirt. Really nice too. I was hoping I would get to help him just to see if he would say something funny but my friend did instead.

14. From Sklanskers:

About 7 years ago I was still in high school and living with my mom, my brother, and my younger sister. My parents got a divorce about a year and a half before.. my dad kinda screwed us. My mom was unemployed (but going back to school with less than a year of schooling left - she was 48 at the time), we had no money, no food, no nothing.

We've always been a poor family growing up so it wasn't anything new, unfortunately, we couldn't live where we were living any more and had to move. This was the first move without my dad so it was kinda the toughest, i remember day after day how my mom would cry wondering how she would feed us, move the house, care for us, get money for bills, etc.

I remember asking her what we're going to do or how we'd pay for anything. She had no answer. She went to get the mail a day later (she always avoided the mailbox because of bills haha) and when she did she found a letter with a check in it for $6,000. She was employed at an insurance firm (where she met my dad) some 20 years earlier and as a perk for working there, you're given stock options.

My mom forgot about the stock options and they tracked her down 20 years later to give her the money, and single-handedly save us from being homeless. My mom made that 6grand go a long way, we happily moved to a cheaper home and everything is okay again.

15. From pepipopa:

We were at a poker table playing poker once and I was winning $100-150 from my mates. The dealer was next to me and he was like " Dude you are totally cheating!" He was joking of course. He was dealing the community cards and I was like next card is 3 of spades. Next card was 3 of spades. Best moment ever.

16. From butyourenice:

When I was a kid, every time I thought about a certain episode of the Simpsons, it was the one that would come on that evening.

I would imagine a scene or joke from the one where lisa gets braces, and it would come on.

I thought I was psychic, but I never could use my power for good.

17. From CongratsYouUsedAMeme:

Sometimes I pretend like I have a bazooka, this happens when I'm in the car with my girlfriend on our frequent and boring 4 hour trips to home/back to college.

Well, one time I shot my imaginary bazooka at a car in front of me. A second later, his tire BLOWS OUT and he swerves off to the shoulder, staring at me all the while. He was probably as confused as I was.

18. From HerrCo:

One night I was star-gazing while being outside for a smoke and saw a shooting star between two prominent landmarks. A few days later, I was outside again at the same spot and remembered that shooting star and thought how cool it would be if I see one again. A few seconds later a shooting star crossed that same spot.


Edit: Oh, and one time I predicted a "joke" on Two and a Half Men. Isn't that hard, though.

19. From footle:

Sat outside college with some friends when several police cars appeared very suddenly, surrounding a car in the middle of the road and forcing them to stop.

One of my friends said sarcastically, "watch, they'll get their machine guns out next."

Now, this is in the north of England. It's not all that often you see the police wield any sort of gun around here. But, sure enough, 6 or 7 officers arose from their vehicles with MP5s and pointed them straight at the car they had stopped. They dragged a man out of the car and put him in the back of one of the police cars, one of the officers got into the car they had stopped and they all drove away. The whole thing lated about 30 or 40 seconds and we were all sat about 10 feet away.

20. From nerdCaps:

I was at the game in 1998 that Kerry Wood struck out 20 batters. After he struck out the first hitter in the first inning, my friend looked at me and said, "Well, only 19 more to go." By the ninth inning, we had our entire section going insane as we counted down the last two strikeouts to 20.


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