• saltesc@lemmy.world
    452·
    3 months ago

    TL;DR Drink driving rescuing people from floodwaters

    It’s late at night, my area was flooding, and I was on my deck with the neighbour sinking beers, waiting to have to evacuate and head uphil to his place.

    Then we see a stock 4×4 down the road hit the floodwaters all wrong, lights shut, car’s dead in the water. I realised I am quite intoxicated but am the only way these people can get out safely. So I grab my keys, get in low range, and carefully drive down there. We realise they can’t wind windows down anymore and there’s too much weight of water to open the doors, all the while water was rising about 30cm an hour.

    So we drove in—something my rig is made for and has done many river and water crossings. We park up, but this guys got no idea where his hook was to attach recovery gear, so it was time to go swimming and search under their car. Found it, got a shackle and strap in, climbed back in through my window and off we go. Somehow my drunk ass is remembering they’ll have no power steering, and I need to take big turns to not get them driven into other objects. Manage to pull them up the hill, chock the wheels because the e-brake was failing, and done. They were very grateful, amazed I had all this recovery gear on me, but I was kind of staggering and definitely slurring, feeling like a wreckless POS for driving so drunk. But in the end, our experience meant we performed a clinical rescue. I was personally fucking impressed.

    Then down the hill another cars drives in and stuck. Little hatchback this time and it’s floating… Here we go again.

  • Hazzia@discuss.tchncs.de
    381·
    3 months ago

    So my dad dies a number of months ago (please no condolences, he was a POS), and my chronically jobless older brother asked our sister and I if he could have the full social security payout. When I say chronically jobless, he has some seriously in-demand skills and experience, but he doesn’t have the formal education because he never felt like going to college (which would have been paid FOR him) and he absorbed our dad’s personality from living with him this whole time, which I’m sure is the primary reason why all his interviews fall through. Now, Im minorly pissed off because we let him have basically everything dad had owned, but I say yeah sure whatever, I’m not about to start any drama over this. well turns out he either filed wrong, or SS made a mistake, because I get a check in the mail for half. He has no idea, our mom has no idea, so I cash that shit.

    • WeeSheep@lemmy.world
      151·
      3 months ago

      In my defense, I’d like to live in a country where retirement is an option. I don’t get paid enough to save. Something needs to flex 🤷🏻‍♀️

  • XTL@sopuli.xyz
    6·
    3 months ago

    Get divorced. Quit studying and work. Quit work and study. Not pay all my debts before investing. Probably very mundane stuff, but there’s a lot of “not supposed to” that doesn’t make sense in every situation.

    I’ll see if I can think of something trickier.