What’s your « I almost died » story ?

Random 11pm thought. I was remembering my trip to Portugal with friends this summer. We were staying in Porto and decided to head down to Lisbon for a day. Unfortunately, I had my period and between the heat and all the walking, I was dying. So when we got to the city center, I asked if we could hop on the historic tram so we could sightsee without me suffering.

But we eventually decided to keep walking instead, since we only had one day and wanted to explore every corner we could. I figured I could push through the pain a little longer, so it was fine.

When we got back to our Airbnb in Porto, our families started blowing up our phones (I’m talking grandparents, distant uncles you only hear from once a year type of calls) because there had been a deadly accident (16 deaths) involving that same historical tram, around the same time and in the same area we were at.

Just imagine if they had listened to me and we’d gotten on that rusty metal relic… I thank God every day that we chose to walk, because we could’ve been part of those same 16 people that died.


Have any of you experienced something similar ?