Sometimes accidents are a good thing.
 

We all know people can get hurt or even die from accidents. This aspect of random events gets way to much attention. So this ideal was born; both for the aforementioned reason and becuase of certain events which happened today. Which I will now divulge to the masses so that you may comment and provide your own examples of a good accident. Anyway here goes:

I've had some knee trouble in recent year pursuant to another earlier accident. My knee was causing a good deal of pain so I decided to take some of my left over persciption Ibuprofen. Well I grabbed the wrong bottle and never bothered to read what I was taking. The pills where basically the same size and shape so I downed 3 of them. This is where I pause to say always read your meds before you take them. In this case I had actually taken 3 Vicodin. Not exactly a fatal overdose or nor to unpleasant. This is an example of a good accident but it could have easly been a bad one.

Anyone else have a good accident to share?

Good accidents? I didn't know one of those existed. Are you talking cars?

I once had to make a pie for thanks giving scince everyone loves the pies I make. Though when I started to make the pie and grab for the sugar I accidently confused the sugar for salt and then I was giving it a test try and threw up and realized I confused them and had to make another pie quickly.

Well I learned to put put some sort of a sign in the jars so that this wouldnt happen again.

As the example above obvously shows I meant accidents in general. I fail to see how it is possible to read that post, which I assume you did, and come away unclear as to what type of accident I ment.

What kind of Accident do you mean then. Its not like there is more than 1 kind of accident.

ac·ci·dent ( P ) Pronunciation Key (ks-dnt, -dnt)
n.

1. An unexpected and undesirable event, especially one resulting in damage or harm: car accidents on icy roads.
2. An unforeseen incident: A series of happy accidents led to his promotion.
3. An instance of involuntary urination or defecation in one's clothing.
4. Lack of intention; chance: ran into an old friend by accident.
5. Logic. A circumstance or attribute that is not essential to the nature of something.

Anyone of these definitions will work as long the result was good for you or good in general.

Well I don't know how you got the knee accident, so it's possible. At least for an idiot like me.

As for an accident, I can think of when I twisted my ankle but I won't go into details. All I can say is I could be dead.

Well...I hate to say, "I don't have a story but I know someone who does," but...

^

A guy I frequently talk to on the !!!(A)RaDiCaLs Soulseek room (de hecho, he created it) was riding his motorcycle with his ;egs wrapped around the front. He collided with the car in front of him and of course, his knees and legs were unusable for months. So, because of his handicapped situation, he began to eat simpler, un-complicated meals. Now, his regular diet is incredibly healthy and quite tasty, consisting mainly of raw foods which only have good effects.

Actually, after the accident, he tried to get the guy he collided with to skip out on the court day, as he did. He's an anarchist, and he didn't mind about the accident since it was just that, an accident. Plus the guy he collided with was an illegal immigrant so he was hoping to get him out before someone found out o_o.

It was kind of an accident that I found nuklearpower. There's long, goopy history behind it all. We'll just say there was an emotional problem between myself and another person, and an undesirable event happened, and in the aftermath a friend referred me to NP to cheer up. As a result I now lord over most of you and found my soulmate RaiRai! Yay that!

But! The rest, as they say..

Well..

The whole thing is history.





...shut up.

I discovered by accident that I like Sprite Remix Berry Clear. In my haste running between classes, I pressed the wrong button on a vending machine. I shrugged and drank it anyway. Since then, I've been hooked.

You've got to love serendipity. Well, I do. :)

Aargh, I've been trying to think of an example for a while, and am still drawing a blank, even though it certainly happens to me. Narg. I'll get back to you if I think of something.

Good accident? Well, there was the time I had to do "sai gang" (AKA "shit work", or all the boring unpleasant stuff you pray doesn't get foisted on you).

So I was muttering and grumbling as I sent those damn letters to the Camp Commandant's Office, but when i came back i foudn that one of the warrants had rounded EVERYONE up for some incredibly boring talk.

The result? I was left alone in the office for three full hours... which I happily used to sleep/eat/surf the Net.

"Good accidents" are few and far between, but I guess I can tell this one:

One winter I had broken my ankle playing basketball. I had to take the bus to school every day with my crutches. Just as I was getting to the end of my injury, I slipped on some ice and reinjured it, right before heading off to Florida for winter vacation. I was in a minor cast (just and ace bandage) and still had my crutches through out the entire vacation. However, because I had to use my crutches to walk, I got to go to the front of the line every time in Disney World. I actually got to ride all of the rides in the theme park.

During lunch one day a friend and I walked over to her apartment. We got in the elevator, pressed 5, and waited. The elevator moved up a little, then stopped. We were stuck. In addition to this, the door kept opening and closing every few seconds. Anyways, we yelled for help. In an hour and a half, a guy arrived who opened the elevator in about two minutes, and we were free.

That sounds sucky, but the good thing is I missed having to do a French group presentation. I loathe presentations, particularly french ones.

I have a similar one... I missed my train and thus a presumably very boring introduction to some class. Keep in mind it's three minutes tops to the train station from my front door.

I had this friend my freshman year of college. We all would go to his apartment and play video games, watch movies and stuff. My first real attempts at a social life. :O Anyway, he graduated that year and moved to his home city several hours away. I've seen him 2 times since then, and I've really missed him...he's really one of my favorite people in the world.
I don't have a car right now so if I go anywhere I take the bus. I live on a one way street, so to come back I come back on the one-way street 1 block over, with my college campus in between. Anyway, I was going to get off the bus at about 17th street and cross campus back to my apartment but then I decided to get off at 16th. I got off the bus and crossed hurridly before the light changed, its a multil-lane road that's always busy. Just as I got across I heard "Evvie!"(short for Evelyn) and there was my friend Evan sitting in his car. He circled around the block and I hopped in and we spent the next 45 minutes catching up, and we exchanged phone numbers. That totally made my day.:D

Two words:

Pepsi Green.

At the school cafeteria two years ago, my friend, to be known as "J" snuck some Fireball whiskey into the school. My other friend "A" bought himself some Pepsi Blue because it was his favorite drink. Now My third friend, "C" took out a glass and asked J for a drink. J wasn't paying attention as he was talking to a girl beside him and as he poured the drink, it went directly into A's Pepsi Blue. The Pepsi turned Green, and everyone just sort of stared at it for a while.

When A took a drink out of it, he found his new favorite drink... and so did we all.

Mmmm. pepsi green

There is an aside to my original story. It seems that I caught a cold yesterday, which was not so good. What was good was that I had no ideal I was getting sick; that is until I woke up this morning. So besides being really happy for a good 6 or 7 hours I also delayed feeling sick. Of course large doses of Vicodin tend to make you not care about anything.

I have one!! My brother was sick and my mom asked me to stay home from school. I don't like babysitting my brother so I complained. I ended up staying home....but the next day I figured out that we dissected frogs that very same day I wasn't there!!

I have one. Once a friend and I were walking home after school and he tripped over something. He got up to find out it was a $20 bill under a rock! What luck!

I've got one. About a year ago today I moved to Vermont and found myself at yet another new school. One day in a free block I accidentally make a wrong turn in the library and find myself in a secluded spot where a pair of guys were playing Magic the Gathering. It turned out they were good guys and we became friends and are still today.

Probably when I went to a creative writing class at the college and when the teacher asked everyone who they were and something about themselves I said "Well. I play DND." I realized three hot girls who were all into creative writing and poetry just heard me say that and I felt like a complete idiot. Then the guy next to me said pretty much the same thing. Now we play DND every weekend with him and his girlfriend. Woot.

Or maybe more down-side ish, when I hit one guy making a left exit turn. We were fortunate enough to find out he was on parole and he didn't feel like going to jail. Yay me.

Aha! I knew that I had some! (And I'm kicking myself for not thinking of two of them)

Firstly, I recently bought a new hard drive. Nothing fancy, a standard 40Gb drive, but it comes to something when you're upgrading from two 4-Gigs. I had determined to buy one some while ago, and had discovered that my university was the best place to buy from in terms of price. On the other hand, I'm very lazy, so I put it off for quite a while. I finally got around to getting it the other day, and was pleasantly surprised to discover that the price had gone down in the meanwhile! It's not much, but at this point I can use the savings.

On these forums (fora?) there was the occasion of my going off at a tangent in the Cheeto for sale and Battlecry threads, which ended up with the creation of the (very fun, I think) Soul Hunters RP. I love that about human communication. We can go from threads about selling Cheetos on E-Bay and an online Battlecry generator and from there arrive at an over-the-top RP about Soul Hunters and their lairs, a gelatinous mound, a naive heroine, a man who can shapeshift into a cow, and a secret-agent-man who only speaks in palindromes, to mention only a few!

Of course, these are just two examples; there are many more, some of which were greater, and some of which were lesser, and for all of them I am truly thankfull.

I love serendipity! :)

Well I have what I call Urashima luck because it always reminds me off Keitaro Urashima in love Hina, good and bad at the same time
Anyaway Monday my computer's motherboard fried itself to death, this ticked me off but I had a warranty. Called to ask how to redeem my warranty they told me the computer was sold 4 months before it was actually sold to me and therefore my warranty had expired. I went to the store where I bought it talked to the manager, and since they wouldn't honor my warranty he took it back and gave me what I payed for it last November. What's good about that you may ask? They had an even better computer on sale for the same price that I got.

I was in a car accident that should have killed me seatbelt or no seatbelt. No one got hurt, and no one died, so it was a good accident.

When I first started driving after obtaining my license I kept getting more and more daring and driving faster and faster. Then by luck or fate my dad asked me to return a movie to the video store and I took a road I had never been on, which is a notorious speed trap. I got a ticket and that caused me to slow down greatly. Now I'm a little more mature and don't go speeding around as fast as I can.