21 Things People Simply Couldn't Believe Were Happening to Them

‘He wasn’t play jumping. Не was trying to stay above water’
21 Things People Simply Couldn't Believe Were Happening to Them

Let’s face it: Most of the time, if your life was a movie, it would be a hella boring one. Who wants to watch some schlub get up every day, make himself a subpar matcha latte, go to work to do a job whose description makes everyone who asks “So what do you do?” wish they were less nosy, and come home to watch The Bachelor while eating ramen on top of his cat?

Well, if your life actually did become as dramatic as a movie, you’d wish pretty quickly for things to return to their normal, boring speed. Reddit proved that when user Thicc1324 asked r/AskReddit, “What was your ‘I can’t believe this is happening right now’ moment of your life?”

interested21 6y ago Finding out I had epilepsy all my life when I was 45 years old.
OscarThePoscar 6y ago When I got an email stating I got the PhD position and to get ready to go to Antarctica... Still can't believe I've been there... twice.
-eDgAR- . 6y ago Going to jail. | tried so hard to convince myself it was just a horrible dream, until I finally accepted this was my reality.
youknowhattodo . 6y ago Finally got together with my crush - I cant believe this is happening right now Drank too much and couldn't get it up - I cant believe this is happening right now
Navaro27 6y ago When the nurse handed us our first child ready to take her home, | looked at my wife and immediately thought. Shit, we have to keep this thing alive
6y ago Head on collision with my motorcycle and a sewage drain. I had 1 second to decide to super man off the front. The I cant believe this is happening right now moment came when I was mid air.
GryphonGuitar 6y ago The first time I walked up to a plane I'd rented for the day, signed off, did a preflight, got in and took off. I legally took an airplane out for a spin, and noone was monitoring me. It just seemed like an insane thing.
JoinedRedditForEsper . 6y ago Went to a concert of my favorite band ever. Bought the VIP tickets, chatted with artist before concert. Ended up going out to dinner with the whole band after the concert at some 24 hr diner. Best moment of my life.
alenork . 6y ago Its probably not a big deal for most people but that moment was when I got promoted from a $13 an hour position to a $22 an hour position after only being with the company for 6 months. I still cant believe how lucky i am to have jumped so far up the company chain so early on.
jeffk42 . 6 6y ago That would probably be having a conference call with my boss and HR telling me I was one of 50 people being laid off due to restructuring, while my (now ex-) wife was in the other room packing her things to move out of the house.
hieropotamus 6y ago When I was 17 I got to sing Bring Him Home from Les Mis to a theater full of 1200+ people. It was a surreal experience, holding the attention of that many people for like 3 and a half minutes. They even clapped for me at the end. I've not had another experience like it in the 10 years since. What can I say, | peaked early.
KerroDaridae . 6y ago I was selected to carry the olympic torch back in 2002. I still to this day do not know what was submitted that convinced them to allow this. I am not anyone special. Didn't really think too much of it until the day I'm running down the street carrying the torch, people lining the road for miles on end to see this event. It was an experience that I cannot even describe.
_Than0s . 6y ago When I woke up with my head lodged in between the car seat and the wall of the car after being hit by a drunk driver. I was asleep in the very back of my Toyota Sienna while my mom was driving and I wasn't wearing a seat belt during the time of the accident. Luckily for me, I managed to get away with just a scar to my forehead EVEN THOUGH I was flung across the car after being struck. I'm still flabbergasted I got away with just the scar...
Twinwren 6y ago Taking a phone call from my twin from the hospital to say her husband didn't make it - (after she'd found him unresponsive in VF and had done CPR on him while waiting for paramedics All the time her kids were at my house (I was looking after them) but she didn't want me to tell them as she wanted to tell them herself. Hardest day of my life, a million times harder for her. Some days I still can't believe he's gone.
Yotsu . 6y ago . Edited 6y ago Checking a regular guest out of my hotel when I realized he was having a stroke. Mumbling, repeating himself, couldn't even sign his name. Called 911 so an ambulance could get him to a hospital. The moment it really hit was the next day when his wife called and said I saved his life. Like dude, I work at a hotel. This was not something I ever expected to hear.
simplypsyched . 6y ago Awhile ago at my college we were put on lockdown for a potential gunman on campus. When they announced over the loud speakers There is a gunman on campus, shelter in place. I had a surreal I can't believe this is happening right now moment. Its always something that you think will never actually happen to you. Thankfully there was never any actually danger on campus ( just a potential threat , ,but sending those texts to my family/ friends is something that I never wanted to do. The scariest 2.5 hrs of my life was not knowing whether
queenbeeemalee 6y ago Edited 6y ago I was swimming at a lake last summer. My sister has 7 kids so I was helping her keep an eye on them. A little boy was bouncing up and down beside me. I thought the kids next to him were with him. Then I realized they swam away and he was by himself. But he wasn't play jumping. Не was trying to stay above water. After 4 seconds of him going under and seeing that he actually wasn't tall enough to be in the 4 foot water, I reached over and grabbed him.
thestereo300 . 6y ago The day my daughter was born my sister showed up unexpectedly at the hospital. I assumed she was dropping by to see the baby. Nope, My dad was literally next door in the heart ward. This was a huge place and it was totally by chance. There were double doors between the baby and heart ward and he was on the other side with complications for heart failure. The emotions were so strong and conflicting I had to turn them off and I'm not sure they ever really came back.
ClovesCNL 6y ago I was in Rio, my mother had just given some money to a homeless dude. Few after that a wild burglar appears. Holding a knife against her chest, she gave him her purse and he run away. The homeless dude then stood up and said something like she's a nice woman, do not steal from her. They started arguing and the purse came flying, sommersaults and all, back to her arms.
Andromeda321 6y ago The time I got punched by a wild mountain gorilla. Back story: I was in Uganda, where they sell $500 permits where you can hike into the forest with guides and then spend an hour with the gorillas. (If that sounds steep, I believe it's even more now, and is kept high so the locals have incentive to protect over poach the gorillas.) One of the gorillas in the troop we were going to visit had the name Punchy in the local language because he enjoyed the teenage male game enjoyed by many species of I hit
OzzieBloke777 6y ago Edited 6y ago Talking with dolphin trainer at aquarium. Both of us sitting on the edge of pontoon on water, feet in the water. Feel something brush past my foot, then significant rubbing. Look down. Female dolphin masturbating against my foot. Yeah, they do that. was the trainer's response.

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