[Rain Man]

I have several times. Of the ones I remember....

1. Drunk dude staggering around in traffic late at night.

2. Thuggy kids threw a trash can into the middle of an intersection.

3. Scammer knocked on my front door and tried to scam me out of money.

4. Drunk driver on the road near me.

5. Car in front of us lost control and wrecked on the Interstate.

But the first time was the freakiest, though it was before 911 was the emergency number. When I was about 15 years old, my mother had major surgery. She came home and everything was fine, and then one night there was yelling. My dad and sister and I converged on my parents' bedroom, and my mother's stitches had broken open, so she was looking like Carrie. Blood everywhere. My dad saw her and passed out, just went straight down and cracked his head on their dresser on the way. So my mother is bleeding profusely and my dad is unconscious, so my sister runs over to help and I get on the phone and dial 0 for the operator (no 911 in those days). I got the phone number for the hospital and called for help. Fortunately, neither injury was serious and they were both fine, but for a moment I thought I was going to be an orphan, and it took me several minutes to call dibs on their room over my sister.