MARCH 5, 2009 1:00PM

Open Call: Brushes with Death

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Yes, plural!

  • Apparently, I caused the 1994 Northridge California Earthquake and survived!
  • I also survived a waterplane ride where the engine died about 30 seconds after takeoff because someone put the wrong gas in the tank. I was riding co-pilot, and I had a front row seat staring right back down at the fast approching water!! It was very much like riding a rollercoaster, only there wasn't any track. Amazingly (or stupidly) enough, we changed the gas and our group flew on to our destination like nothing ever happened. What sort of person gets back in that plane?  I was 14 at the time, so I was obviously too young (stupid) to know any better.

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I had forgotten the earthquake post. You are a menace!

People are hopelessly optomistic at 14. I can't imagine getting back on the plane right away after that. Eventually...months later maybe.
I had kinda forgotten about it, too. Almost started to write the story again, and decided to check back... and there it was!