It Was A Lifesaver – Literally
You know how people go, “Stop overthinking, it’s never going to happen. There won’t be an alien invasion.” Well, even though the alien invasion thing is debatable (*whispers* keep your options open and be prepared, just in case), there have been instances where overthinking has saved lives and averted possible disasters. Here are 30 of such people showing instances when that has happened.
When my wife and I were getting married and looking for a place for the ceremony, we found this beautiful but quite remote garden. We were signing the contract for the event and I kept thinking that it was quite remote, so I asked: “how much time does it take for the ambulance to get here?”
I became the laughing stock of both families. My (then future) mother-in-law, who was present at the meeting, literally fell down from the chair laughing. The wedding organizer, remembered it for weeks, telling everyone we met about it. My dad ended every sentence with “…but maybe you need an ambulance for that”. My wife was making siren noises when I was saying something we disagreed on. Every family dinner all the aunts and uncles were “checking” if the ambulance was present. You name it. The entire package.
Still, I couldn’t get rid of this weird feeling. It would have taken over an hour for the ambulance to get to the garden. After a few weeks, I ended up paying a private ambulance to be present at the wedding.
Fast forward to the ceremony. As my wife literally walks down the aisle, at the back of the garden I see two Paramedics running with a stretcher and my dad squeezing my hand whispering: “that’s not of your god damn business, let them take care of it. “
What happened was that one of our older guests got a heart attack and almost died at the ceremony. Was saved by the private ambulance.
Ever since then, when my wife tells me that I’m overthinking, I just do the siren noise.