I have had a lot of close calls in my life. Like really close to bad things happening. Just one example would be walking up close to a deadly brown snake at the bush, and instantly before that I heard a car behind me on the trail and looked back at it then I looked forward again and saw the snake…
I would usually see snakes in front of me regardless though. There are other examples that I am not going to mention.
I’ve been lucky with the wildlife but here in Minnesota it’s just black bears or maybe a cougar to worry about. I guess if you want to count the five deer I hit then maybe I’m not so lucky.
I crossed the road once on a bicycle and got cleaned up by a car I didn’t hear coming. Ended up somehow sliding on the bike on it’s side about 20 meters down the road! Only had some minor scratches and a sore ass!
The car had just clipped my wheel. If had hit my leg I’d be seriously wrecked! Lucky and close on that day!
No way I could live in Australia. Snakes, funnel web spiders and do you guys have the cone shell things in the sea too? Don’t know why mighty Odin saw fit to fill the place full of deadly stuff!