one that always jumps into my head was on a little john deere lawn tractor.
Nice sunny day, mowing my lawn. Not a care in the world...
Going up a small but steep little hill, around a retaining wall.
Grass was a little wet from dew - I started sliding backwards.
Of all the stupid - idiotic - dumb a#$ moves to make - somehow, instinctively I put my left foot down onto the ground to try to stop the slide.
I have no idea why I did that - who cares if I slid a bit??? it didn't matter. there was nothing but grass behind me. But that's how I reacted.
The tractor of course continued to slide, and the mower deck went right over my foot, pinning my foot underneath it. The tractor continued sliding forcing my foot further and further under the mower deck till my whole foot was under there - blades at full speed - which had to be a mere millimeter away.
I quickly shut the mower - but probably not as quickly as you might think.
There was a moment of panic where I focused on trying to yank my foot out when I should have been hitting the switch. Just a split second - but still. I imagine a mower blade can do a lot of foot shaving in half a second.
I did finally hit the switch. And I did stop sliding and got my foot out.
It was all over before it could even register what just happened.
By some miracle the blades never touched me.
How I didn't at least lose a few toes I really don't know.
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