Oh God, another one...
Where we used to live, our garden backed on to the worlds smallest public railway, from end to end it's 14 miles long.
Anyway, when our first daughter was born we *trained* her to wave at the train, rather than be scared of the noise when it went past.
When she was about 2 years old we decided that it might be a good idea to take her in it to show her what it was all about, we chose a day when they dressed the train up like Thomas the Tank Engine and drove the mile down to the station.
When we got there, there was a man chalking up on a board the words "Due to accident, trains will not be running today". I asked him what had happened.
A woman in a car had decided to jump the lights, and of course the inevitable happened and the train hit her car, killing the train driver and injuring her and her child.
We drove home, to discover that the accident was about 20 yards from our house and had left the station pretty much at the same time we left our house (it travels at around 25mph max) to go to the station to get on the train.
So, while we probably wouldn't have died, we did have a narrow escape.
(dchurch bah, Sat 21 Aug 2010, 9:41, 4 replies)

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You could have walked home tho ;)
(Speshal, Sat 21 Aug 2010, 13:00, closed)

I am admittedly a thicko..
..but what did you have a narrow escape from?
(St Sepulchre's Belle tolled for thee on, Sat 21 Aug 2010, 13:19, closed)

Getting
on the train, if we'd left a few minutes earlier we'd have been on the one that crashed, and then I expect my daughter would have at the very least had a fear of the train going past the back garden.
(dchurch bah, Sat 21 Aug 2010, 14:29, closed)

Ahh.
I got it now :)
(St Sepulchre's Belle tolled for thee on, Sat 21 Aug 2010, 14:58, closed)