09-18-2011, 10:10 AM
^Ah I so identify with the above post. When it comes to myself, not smoking for six hours is not an easily accomplished thing at all.
Anyway, when it comes to major things, I've actually done a few things that can be seen as heroic. On more than one occasion I've managed to successfully talk someone out of committing suicide. It would often take hours at a time, but I've never cared. Last year I was in a rather violent car accident. The truck containing my mom, stepdad, and I collided with a station wagon containing a 15 year old and his mother. I cleared the airbag away from my stepdad's face after it went off on him before undoing the seatbelts holding all three of us in place. After getting out of the truck, I helped my stepdad walk my mom away from the crashsite. He remained with her while I staggered over to the station wagon to make sure that the other two were okay. I was the least injured of all of us and I stayed with them until help arrived shortly after the accident.
This may not count since it was done to save myself but on more than one occasion I've managed to escape from a possibly deadly situation. For example, I've once ran from a vehicle containing a person with a silencer pointed at me. I maneuvered through several yards, making sure not to be seen as the SUV circled the houses and I hid between two trucks in a driveway until they were gone. I even managed to give them a false 'trail' by removing a shoe and leaving it several houses away from where I ended up hiding.
Anyway, when it comes to major things, I've actually done a few things that can be seen as heroic. On more than one occasion I've managed to successfully talk someone out of committing suicide. It would often take hours at a time, but I've never cared. Last year I was in a rather violent car accident. The truck containing my mom, stepdad, and I collided with a station wagon containing a 15 year old and his mother. I cleared the airbag away from my stepdad's face after it went off on him before undoing the seatbelts holding all three of us in place. After getting out of the truck, I helped my stepdad walk my mom away from the crashsite. He remained with her while I staggered over to the station wagon to make sure that the other two were okay. I was the least injured of all of us and I stayed with them until help arrived shortly after the accident.
This may not count since it was done to save myself but on more than one occasion I've managed to escape from a possibly deadly situation. For example, I've once ran from a vehicle containing a person with a silencer pointed at me. I maneuvered through several yards, making sure not to be seen as the SUV circled the houses and I hid between two trucks in a driveway until they were gone. I even managed to give them a false 'trail' by removing a shoe and leaving it several houses away from where I ended up hiding.