u/La-_Gioconda

So Im not a firefighter or work in the medical field at all but I keep just being at the right place/right time super randomly when someone is having a life threatening emergency. It just happened on Sunday, my girlfriend and I went to Starbucks after getting my dog bathed and to calm his nerves we went to the drive thru for a pup cup. We decided to temporarily park just ahead so my dog can finish licking the whipped cream and we happened to have our windows down and music low when we heard a lady from the parked car yelling to my girlfriend “oh god help me please he is choking!” As her husband stumbles out of the passenger seat. I put the car in park and ran to them and started doing the Heimlich maneuver which I briefly learned from my sister (she is studying for nursing). I had no idea how to do it or where exactly to grab but I knew the general idea, by this time two more older men approached and one was starting to call 911 and the other one parked his car next to us and started putting together some device that had a mouth piece at the end. I gave him three humps and he tapped my arm saying he can breathe now. He was drooling white but breathing, catching his breath. The other stranger that was there shook my hand and I hugged the lady because she was crying, it was a little embarrassing because the drive thru line was watching and i told the guy to not call 911 anymore. I kinda jogged back to my car and my girlfriend was not even concerned or surprised at this point, she was still feeling my dog the puppochino and just asked me “why does this keep happening to you?”

I was really excited to tell my sister that I used the Heimlich in a real situation today but she said I never asked “are you chocking?” And that the other stranger should have called 911 regardless so I was wrong in that.

Another case was earlier this year I was also driving with my girlfriend and we were on my way home, the car in front of me randomly stopped and kinda slowed down and I was like wtf? But someone riding their bike looked like they were about to faint or something, they were going to just fall on the street so I just stopped behind the car and kept watching, the man fell and hit his head pretty hard so i put my hazards on and started jogging towards the cyclist. The dude from the car in front of me also go out but I got there first and he was having some sort of seizure so i just stabilized the head, he was sweating and looking at me while seizing it was something i didn’t see before. I dont really remember that well but more people approached and they were kind of helping, at least kneeling down but the man started bleeding from his mouth because he was clenching his teeth, i was afraid he was biting his tongue so i put my fingers in his mouth to try to pry open, i dont remember that well but the ambulance eventually came, and i even helped translating and finding out who he was.

And the other time was a few years ago, noticed a man was st\\\\\\\*abbing his neck with a piece of glass under the Santa Monica pier while we were at the shore watching the sunset. I also ran to him and picked the piece of glass out and applied pressure till someone eventually guided the ambulance to us. That one is a sad story for me about what he was telling me as we talked but yeah, that was the first time something like this happened.

Do you guys have any similar experiences or stories where your fight or flight just activates and you react kind of automatically?

So Im not a firefighter or work in the medical field at all but I keep just being at the right place/right time super randomly when someone is having a life threatening emergency. It just happened on Sunday, my girlfriend and I went to Starbucks after getting my dog bathed and to calm his nerves we went to the drive thru for a pup cup. We decided to temporarily park just ahead so my dog can finish licking the whipped cream and we happened to have our windows down and music low when we heard a lady from the parked car yelling to my girlfriend “oh god help me please he is choking!” As her husband stumbles out of the passenger seat. I put the car in park and ran to them and started doing the Heimlich maneuver which I briefly learned from my sister (she is studying for nursing). I had no idea how to do it or where exactly to grab but I knew the general idea, by this time two more older men approached and one was starting to call 911 and the other one parked his car next to us and started putting together some device that had a mouth piece at the end. I gave him three humps and he tapped my arm saying he can breathe now. He was drooling white but breathing, catching his breath. The other stranger that was there shook my hand and I hugged the lady because she was crying, it was a little embarrassing because the drive thru line was watching and i told the guy to not call 911 anymore. I kinda jogged back to my car and my girlfriend was not even concerned or surprised at this point, she was still feeling my dog the puppochino and just asked me “why does this keep happening to you?”

I was really excited to tell my sister that I used the Heimlich in a real situation today but she said I never asked “are you chocking?” And that the other stranger should have called 911 regardless so I was wrong in that.

Another case was earlier this year I was also driving with my girlfriend and we were on my way home, the car in front of me randomly stopped and kinda slowed down and I was like wtf? But someone riding their bike looked like they were about to faint or something, they were going to just fall on the street so I just stopped behind the car and kept watching, the man fell and hit his head pretty hard so i put my hazards on and started jogging towards the cyclist. The dude from the car in front of me also go out but I got there first and he was having some sort of seizure so i just stabilized the head, he was sweating and looking at me while seizing it was something i didn’t see before. I dont really remember that well but more people approached and they were kind of helping, at least kneeling down but the man started bleeding from his mouth because he was clenching his teeth, i was afraid he was biting his tongue so i put my fingers in his mouth to try to pry open, i dont remember that well but the ambulance eventually came, and i even helped translating and finding out who he was.

And the other time was a few years ago, noticed a man was st\\\*abbing his neck with a piece of glass under the Santa Monica pier while we were at the shore watching the sunset. I also ran to him and picked the piece of glass out and applied pressure till someone eventually guided the ambulance to us. That one is a sad story for me about what he was telling me as we talked but yeah, that was the first time something like this happened.

Do you guys have any similar experiences or stories where your fight or flight just activates and you react kind of automatically?

There’s roughly 100 to 110 people in the whole world with my last name and that theres a high chance we are all genealogically related.

I was about 12 and my parents were watching a documentary about something but they had to go to the grocery store so they just left the tv paused. I casually walked to their room and saw a bunch of naked people in black and white and I guess I got horny so I started jerking it. I was so into it that I didn’t realize I was starring at a horrible mountain of people from the Holocaust.

I’ve been dating my girlfriend for almost a year but I have been friends with her for 3. She works at a local college for a couple years now. She started out in a department where she became friends with a guy coworker, they became friends ever since, even when she moved to a different department which is when we started dating. Back when we were friends I knew of him and her stories were always very typical workplace friend anecdotes which I am completely fine with, I knew they had lunch together everyday and I was fine with it (because we weren’t together yet).

To be honest man, she physically changed a lot since we first started dating, she got on birth control so she gained around 15 pounds and IT ALL WENT TO THE RIGHT PLACES (she weighed 100lbs when we started dating) and she also changed her style, she used to wear hoodies and stuff but she said I really made her feel confident about her body since I always compliment her and am very vocal about how good she looks. So now she wears really gorgeous outfits, she looks like those cute anime characters specially since she is short and has bright red hair.

I decided against using Chat GPT to write this and im just word vomiting right now so if what I am about to say sounds superficial I apologize, Im sure i can word this better: back when we were friends and even in the beginning of our relationship i used to not be jealous at all, but now that she changed her style and she is curvy as hell I swear it’s got me fighting DEMONS.

And don’t get me wrong, she is doing nothing wrong she has always been the sweetest girl ever and she has never given me an excuse to be jealous, its just something about how I think she still doesn’t realize how jaw dropping she is.
And little things that have never bothered me are keeping me awake like how she works at a college with guys her age that constantly ask for her instagram (she says no) and how some students kinda linger by her desk to make small talk but since she is a coordinator she has to be nice. But the thing that has bothered me the most lately is that she still has lunch with that male coworker she met when she got there.

Its so freaking stupid that I am getting so consumed by that because I know he is like 34 and married and has a child on the way and even when we weren’t dating he has never crossed the line or done anything weird at all for me to feel jealous. Don’t confuse the fact that Im jealous with me not liking him, I have met him once before and he seems genuine and pretty stand up, he is a south asian man that likes anime and thats how they connected (I dont watch anime unfortunately). I know they are good friends and lunch is kinda their routine now and its never bothered me because but yeah, someone tell me im tripping.