Overthinkers Share Instances Where Overthinking Made Them Prepared
It Was A Lifesaver – Literally
You know how people go, “Stop overthinking, it’s never going to happen. There won’t be an alien invasion.”
Well, even though the alien invasion thing is debatable (*whispers* keep your options open and be prepared, just in case), there have been instances where overthinking has saved lives and averted possible disasters. Here are 30 of such people showing instances when that has happened.
When my wife and I were getting married and looking for a place for the ceremony, we found this beautiful but quite remote garden. We were signing the contract for the event and I kept thinking that it was quite remote, so I asked: “how much time does it take for the ambulance to get here?”
I became the laughing stock of both families. My (then future) mother-in-law, who was present at the meeting, literally fell down from the chair laughing. The wedding organizer, remembered it for weeks, telling everyone we met about it. My dad ended every sentence with “
…but maybe you need an ambulance for that”. My wife was making siren noises when I was saying something we disagreed on. Every family dinner all the aunts and uncles were “checking” if the ambulance was present. You name it. The entire package.
Still, I couldn’t get rid of this weird feeling. It would have taken over an hour for the ambulance to get to the garden. After a few weeks, I ended up paying a private ambulance to be present at the wedding.
Fast forward to the ceremony. As my wife literally walks down the aisle, at the back of the garden I see two Paramedics running with a stretcher and my dad squeezing my hand whispering: “that’s not of your god damn business, let them take care of it. “
What happened was that one of our older guests got a heart attack and almost died at the ceremony. Was saved by the private ambulance.
Ever since then, when my wife tells me that I’m overthinking, I just do the siren noise.
Prevented An Accident
I was once driving on the highway behind a car with a couple of kayaks strapped to the roof. My anxious brain kept saying “what if they fall off the car, final-destination style?”
I tried to convince myself that it was an irrational fear, but the anxiety got the better of me and I decided to change lanes and make some distance.
About 30 seconds later, cue kayaks: they both slip off the roof and go rolling around the highway.
Luckily no one was hurt, but man that did not help my anxiety at all.
Became Ambidextrous
Injuring my dominant hand… as a kid I had an irrational fear of having it chopped off. I spent all of grade 6 teaching myself to write and do things with my left hand. I made a conscious effort to remain as ambidextrous as possible.
As an adult I broke a few fingers on my dominant hand… but it wasn’t a big issue because I could do most things equally with my left hand. Anticlimactic, but it was useful lol.
Saved From Being The Victim Of A Bathroom Prank
In college, on occasion upper-classmen would randomly steal the underclassmen towels from the shower stalls and then lock their room doors so they had to go to the RA bar assed. I had the idea to stash a towel in the drop ceiling tiles for just that event.
Maybe a week later I became the victim of a towel snatching. However, the upperclassmen were very unhappy to see me strut out with a nice clean towel from my ceiling stash.
Wardrobe Malfunction
I always carried an extra juice box/snacks and an extra set of clothes during high school because I was always worried that one of the kids in my school with diabetes might get low and need some sugar(for the juice box and snacks ) and I might get dirty or my clothes would get ruined (the extra clothes) well one day the kid in my class with diabetes did need the sugar.
As luck would have it, a few days later a girl in my class was having a really bad wardrobe malfunction and couldn’t wait for a new shirt so my XXL t-shirt acted as both a shirt/dress for her.