What is something that happened that you never thought would ever happen?

[exitseven]

Thr local shopping mall closed and was bulldozed.

I miss the mall

[Lliam]

My life has been a series of adventures and amazing experiences. My mind swirls when I try to think of one single thing that happened that I never expected.

In 1980, I got hired as a motor vehicle damage field adjuster/appraiser.
About a year later, I went to a junk yard to inspect a wrecked car. When I came back out to my car I found that I had locked the keys inside. So I went back to the office and asked if anyone could get my car open for me.
A guy came out with a slim jim and instantly popped the lock open. It turned out that he was HB (Toby) Halicki.
I later found out that he was the owner of the junk yard but had also written, produced and stared in the 1974 film, Gone in 60 Seconds.
I had to go back to that junk yard on more assignments and got to know him. One time, he gave me a personal tour of his private museum in a giant warehouse on the property.

In August, 1982, I was invited to the premier party for this second film, The Junk Man.

The party was at his junk yard and it was awesome. I won't bother going into detail.

Time passed and I got to know another auto body shop owner named Tony Osetermeier. Come to find out, he was good friends with Toby and had done the stunt flying in The Junk Man. He told me stories about the crazy dare devil shit he did in that film.

He also built replicas of Mercedes 300SL Gullwings and sold them for shit tons of money to really rich people.

He owned several airplanes, including a jet. I love airplanes and he told me all kinds of stories.
One time, he called and invited me for a ride in his jet, a 1960s vintage Folland Gnat.
He flew me out to Mojave Airport in his Beech Bonanza. He said he knew John Travolta and Tom Cruise because that's where they kept their planes.
At Mojave, he introduced me to the guy who was going to take me up. The guy was a hot dog test pilot who had flown in the Viet Name war. I can't remember his name. I think if was Skip.
He gave me the ride of my life, rolling, diving, shooting straight up. I got to take the stick and roll it a couple times to the right and left. He took it down into a narrow, steep-sided twisting canyon and zig zaged through it as if he was evading missile fire.
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So I guess my encounter with Toby Halicki and, through him, Tony Ostermeier, are examples of things that happened that I never expected.

[exitseven]

Whrn I was in basic training i got to go up in a T-37. The pilot did some rolls and we did a vertical climb that was really intense. He let me take the stick for a while. It was awesome.. If I ever get rich I am going to buy one of these.

[Lliam]

I remember you mentioning that before. Totally awesome!

Thanks for the MHO, bro.

[Wiredone]

Trump got elected again. I got high blood pressure. I own my own business. Mandyfire left the site.

[Wiredone]

Thanks for the mho

[AviatorTom]

Other than Trump's miraculous comeback?

Maybe I was an innocent naïve child growing up, but I never thought Democrats and Republicans would ever be so far apart politically.

Growing up, I loved following space... never thought rockets would be re-usable, until SpaceX did it.

[exitseven]

It really is amazing to watch that rocket back itself back onto the gantry tower.

[AviatorTom]

@exitseven Very sorry for ship though... some spectacular videos of its breakup over the Turks and Caicos.

[exitseven]

Elon says its a journey. A few million dollars is pocket change to him.

[OlderAndWiser]

I never thought i would be totally estranged from my sister.

[exitseven]

@OlderAndWiser Yes, I never thought I would be totally estranged from my brother. Life is funny snd I do not mean haha funny.

[OlderAndWiser]

When my sister hit midlife, it was like the alien inside of her decided to begin emerging from its cocoon and show its ugly head!

[just_a_potato]

Banning tiktok, how could they do this to my ipad kid brain helppp

[exitseven]

Yes, that might be hard to deal with. Where I live there used to be 6 newspapers now there are only two and soon maybe none.

[Sevenpointfive]

i never thought i'd have sex. to me that's a win. i aim low

[exitseven]

YAHTZEE!!!

[Sevenpointfive]

when dawn of the dead happens, where will the undead congregate? those empty malls really are gonna be the safest place

[exitseven]

This mall was bulldozed 3 years ago. The undead will have to go someplace else.

[strateguy632]

T. b. h. i "never thought would ever happen" courts rejected evidence of vote tampering in Pennsylvania n Georgia that were revealed republican when democrats couldn't cheat.

Similarly that courts actually went after trump despite knowing the cases were "old" during election like obviously false.

I can't believed judges are THAT corruption.

[Alwayreckles93]

The pandemic. It really did changed the world a lot.

[Beckybooboo]

I had a friend on here get banned 😂😂 I didn't think anyone got banned.

[dreamstar72]

Local mall was closed a few years ago, they got it almost torn down It was a nice size mall, weird it was only up about twenty five years old

[Sun_Kim-Ai]

Personally, getting married and having children. I was extremely against it.

[Bonnaroo]

Being able to drive get married and have a baby because my mom is to over protective but surprisingly all 3 have happened for me

[DrPepper12]

Pluto would get demoted. I mean I spent A LOT OF TIME memorizing "My Very Educated Mother Served Us Nine Pizzas" GFY international astronomical union. there's NINE!! Keep your woke exclusionary bullshit where it belongs!! In Congress!!!

[Sevenpointfive]

you forgot Jupiter (JUST). so now this is definitely happening again! because you didn't learn it *slaps your hand with yardstick*

[NathanDavis]

Argentina won the World Cup with Messi...