On Call
Years ago I was going to be a groomsman for a good friend, and we were taking him to a bachelors party on a Friday night. At the last minute I got paged from work and had to go in. I was off but on call and HAD to go. I was really mad and upset about it.
I called Big John and told him what happened and apologized. I worked 3pm-11pm and went home and went to bed.
About 6am there was banging at my door that woke me. At the door was John’s little sister crying her eyes out. John and the other guys had a terrible auto accident in the way home and there were no survivors. I still think about it now and then.
I’m a non-drinker so I would have been the DD so I assume there would have been no accident if I was driving. On the other hand, maybe everyone were destined to die that night, and I would have died too. Story credit: Reddit / CategoryTurbulent114