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Originally Posted by mineistaken
One round zero times. Not even 0.0001, but actual zero 
I am just too smart to risk my life in even a small chance.. |
Smart isn't always the determining factor, though.
A bunch of us were returning home from a campground (I was driving) and we stopped at a rural garage sale along the way. My GF at the time had spotted a nice grandfather clock they were selling.
Anyways, we were parked on the shoulder of the road - wheels several feet from the pavement. A few other cars were parked in the same way/same area. Normally a safe spot in the middle of nowwhere.
We just got back to the car and I'd gone to the trunk to re-arrange some lawn chairs that'd been rattling around. I was leaning into the trunk when an 82yr. old woman slammed in to us. She hit the rear quarter-panel fender just a foot or two from where I was standing...and literally sheered all down the driver's side of the car. The impact was enough to bend the axle and royally fuck up the entire car (a fairly new Pontiac Grand Prix GT).
She'd fallen asleep at the wheel.
All the smarts in the world wouldn't have prevented it - unless someone at the ministry of transportation had been smart enough to revoke her drivers license years earlier.