Spooked
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Not a bike story but along the same line.
About 17 years ago I am playing snooker, $50 a game with a spot.
I'm bent over to take a shot in a game I am winning and I get a horrible feeling. I unscrew my cue and toss a 50 on the table and tell my buds I gotta get home cause something is wrong. I ran from the place to my car and went home.
I run into the house and at that moment the phone rings. It is my father in law telling me I got to hurry to ICU. My wife was picking apples at his home and fell from the top step of a ladder, landing directly on her head upon a railroad tie.
Long story short she ends up with swelling in her brain and ultimately amnesia which lasts for a couple of weeks.
The only time it has ever happened to me and I know if I ever get that feeling again I will listen to it.
Lee
About 17 years ago I am playing snooker, $50 a game with a spot.
I'm bent over to take a shot in a game I am winning and I get a horrible feeling. I unscrew my cue and toss a 50 on the table and tell my buds I gotta get home cause something is wrong. I ran from the place to my car and went home.
I run into the house and at that moment the phone rings. It is my father in law telling me I got to hurry to ICU. My wife was picking apples at his home and fell from the top step of a ladder, landing directly on her head upon a railroad tie.
Long story short she ends up with swelling in her brain and ultimately amnesia which lasts for a couple of weeks.
The only time it has ever happened to me and I know if I ever get that feeling again I will listen to it.
Lee
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From: Northwest Chicagoland
yep, that dang expression... "those who have been down, and those who are about to".. made me quit riding 15 years ago. It was weird, it hit me in the middle of a local ride and I couldn't get it out of my skull. Wrapped up a local ride real quick, sphincther was all puckered. Dismissed it as a remnant of '70's "exploration". Tried to ride again a week later - same dialogue in my head. Figured why argue - sold bike and quit riding. Said F-it a couple of years ago but still remember the dialogue. Riding every weekend now, mostly 200+ (I know, not a big deal for some but I got another life that dictates time). I just don't listen so well anymore. Also ride a helluva lot more conservative not that that gets it done.
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From: Helena, AL
No. Never have that kind of feeling. The day of my crash I was an early morning and I was more like zombied out (from the night before) and not as hypersensitive as I usually am. So naturally I didn't have any premonition feelings that day for me to trust. Every other day so far, turns out my lack of having that feeling has been spot on. If I ever had any feeling like that I'd probably go on but be super careful.
Ok I take it back. Halloween night about 4 years ago I was riding with the wife from TN down to Helen GA and we (I) decided to take the short cut over Blood Mountain. That road just kept rising and rising and getting tighter and tighter and darker and darker until out of nowhere a freakin black panther - or the hugest black housecat I ever saw - ran across the road in front of me. Coming down that mountain I didn't think the road would ever end but I just knew something bad was going to happen. The road seemed tighter than any I'd ever ridden and the asphalt looked slick as glass. But what are you going to do? Turn around? I kept riding and just was hypersensitive and super careful. Nothing happened. Well except I did get laid that night after we got to the motel.
Ok I take it back. Halloween night about 4 years ago I was riding with the wife from TN down to Helen GA and we (I) decided to take the short cut over Blood Mountain. That road just kept rising and rising and getting tighter and tighter and darker and darker until out of nowhere a freakin black panther - or the hugest black housecat I ever saw - ran across the road in front of me. Coming down that mountain I didn't think the road would ever end but I just knew something bad was going to happen. The road seemed tighter than any I'd ever ridden and the asphalt looked slick as glass. But what are you going to do? Turn around? I kept riding and just was hypersensitive and super careful. Nothing happened. Well except I did get laid that night after we got to the motel.
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From: So Cal - High Desert
Reading some of these sure makes one wonder... There sure is a whole lot more to the world than what we can see, hear or touch. That old gut feeling comes along and it sure seems to make you re-prioritize or at least think a little deeper into what ever is at hand. Thanks for sharing all, I enjoyed reading some of the stranger ones.
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From: Southeast Wisconsin
Yeah, just a 20 mile ride to pick up the car and son.
My girlfriend and I both had a bad feeling but didn't saying and went anyways...it turned out right, we got hit.
In high school, there was, me driving, my gf and 3 friends in the back. We all had bad feelings, we ended up rolling the car.
I trust my bad feelings.
My girlfriend and I both had a bad feeling but didn't saying and went anyways...it turned out right, we got hit.
In high school, there was, me driving, my gf and 3 friends in the back. We all had bad feelings, we ended up rolling the car.
I trust my bad feelings.
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From: VA
Few years ago, near the end of the DC sniper case, I intended to go into a Borders bookstore that I sometimes went to before a class. As I got closer, I just felt really convinced that I needed to not go there and went to a restaurant at the end of the plaza instead. On the way out, I got caught in the dragnet because someone was killed in the Borders parking lot right at the time I would have been going in. Yikes.
I think there is a difference between a weird intense instinct and being fearful. I don't really get these things much, but have learned over the years to take any from my (Irish) mother under advisement. (example: when I got home that night, my mom was a frantic mess because she somehow knew I went to that bookstore, even though that wasn't a habit she knew about)
I think there is a difference between a weird intense instinct and being fearful. I don't really get these things much, but have learned over the years to take any from my (Irish) mother under advisement. (example: when I got home that night, my mom was a frantic mess because she somehow knew I went to that bookstore, even though that wasn't a habit she knew about)
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From: OC California
Not me so much as the wifey. If she says "please don't ride today, I have a bad feeling about it," I don't.
We were taking a train trip up north for the weekend a couple decades ago. On the platform she says she has a bad feeling about it. I said okay, we won't go. She says "no, it will be okay". Around Camarillo she says "go get the luggage". Why? "I don't know just go get it". So I do and put it against the wall by the seats. A couple of minutes later she tells me to hold on. A couple of seconds after that we hit a big *** power truck at 70 and the train derailed. Our car took a side trip down an embankment and ended up half on it's side. We had to leave via the emergency window (with our luggage by the way). So when she speaks I listen!
We were taking a train trip up north for the weekend a couple decades ago. On the platform she says she has a bad feeling about it. I said okay, we won't go. She says "no, it will be okay". Around Camarillo she says "go get the luggage". Why? "I don't know just go get it". So I do and put it against the wall by the seats. A couple of minutes later she tells me to hold on. A couple of seconds after that we hit a big *** power truck at 70 and the train derailed. Our car took a side trip down an embankment and ended up half on it's side. We had to leave via the emergency window (with our luggage by the way). So when she speaks I listen!
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From: Milwaukee
Great stories. There is a whole lot going on beyond the reach of our five senses. Anyone who thinks otherwise is overconfident of their own intelligence.
The smarter I get the more I realize the less I really know.
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The smarter I get the more I realize the less I really know.
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