I think the closest I've ever come to a near death experience was when I fell asleep while driving down I-55 near Bolingbrook in the middle of a weekday afternoon. There was no one else around to beep their horn at me when I started angling my car from the middle lane to the center barricade while going 60 mph, but I woke up seeing the barricade rapidly approaching, turned the wheel, and ended up just scratching the driver's side of the car on the reflecters imbedded in the barricade.

I'm haven't had any near death. Or have managed to block them from my mind, Im pretty good at that. Currently my paranoid scenario is tripped by a Washington Post article I read about a woman whose nose kept running for years and she couldn't figure out why...and it turned out to be cerebrospinal fluid leaking out!! Now I'm convinced my runny nose is actual my brain leaking.

Oh dear meta, I'm now at the point in rereading Bureaucracy 1 here where I'm talking about how I'm rereading TT Bureacracy. I am stuck in a meta loop.

Hi future self who is rereading old Natter threads! How's things?

Thanks a hell of a lot for that, meara.

I haven't had any near-death experiences that I know of, and I'd like to keep it that way. Tho' I will admit that some of the foolish things I did in my 20s could have. (Hey, wandering around the Seattle Underground while clutching a bottle of Chartreuse and smoking a clove cigarette is perfectly safe, right?)

Oh my GOD, meara.

::checks off new neurosis::

meara wins.

meara wins.

Seriously!

Okay, I could have gone the rest of my life never EVER hearing about that little tid bit.

egad meara, that's as bad as that woman who scratched a hole through her skull.

I'm not sure she wins, though. I might give that prize to Steph for reminding me that in women, mild diarrhea can be sign of a heart attack.