[beefalo bill]

It did mine. Back in the 90's, a couple friends and I traveled a few hours to a touristy town. One of the guy's had an uncle with a trailer and some land nearby, where we planned to stay.
Traveling on mostly back-roads, we did as youngsters do, and were in fine shape by the time we reached the tourist trap. Instead of heading straight to camp, we decided to hit the uptown area where all the bars and parties usually happened.
While bopping in and out of shops, the weather turned, and tornado sirens started blaring. We heard a radio program get interrupted for the storm alert, stating that a funnel cloud had been spotted in a nearby area.
Not knowing the area all that well, I asked the guy running the store how far away that is. He said we could stay inside the store, or leave now, because he was boarding up, and that twister could be less than mile away, or 10 miles away.
Not wanting to hang out with some stranger in his store while just shy of drooling-ly stoned, we bolted and tried to figure out what we were going to do. I had lost all motivation for setting up a camp, so I talked my buddies into going together on getting a hotel room.
We pretty much baked ourselves to sleep shortly thereafter, woke up the next day, and went on with plans for the weekend.
A week later, my buddy finds out that his uncle's place had been hit by the tornado, (the only place that tornado touched down) and though his trailer and barn were largely unharmed, the ring of trees where the bonfire pit and tents were normally put was completely demolished.
We went back up a few weeks later to start chopping down what was left of the trees for fire wood. There were seven MASSIVE trees, all completely uprooted, leaving a giant crater some 10-15 feet deep underneath the twisted mass of trees. It was such a mess, his uncle ended up calling a service to come and chop up all the wood.
There's no was we would've survived that, had we went straight to camp to set up. That's how being a stoner saved my life...that time.

[stoney917]

Was late as fuck

[accessndx]

Every single second of every single day

[armedoldhippy]

sat around fucked up until my mom asked "aren't you supposed to meet someone at the bowling alley?" oh shit! leaped up & drove downtown, guy at the counter says "he just left to ride around & burn one, said to tell you he'd be back in half an hour." twenty minutes later, phone rings. his GF tells me he had been hit head-on by some kids in an Oldsmobile, crushed his VW beyond recognition. passenger side mashed flat, steering wheel was embedded in drivers seat. he lived, but if i had been on time...

[Dropped Cat]

Was booked on a flight from Miami in the 90's and canceled due to
money troubles related to a big buy gone bad.

Plane crashed in the Everglades, all hands lost.

Stranger things have happened, but no way to know
ahead of time what our snap decisions will yield.

[PODCOAWNOE]

yes it has