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I worked at a 5 pin bowling alley when I was a teenager, and came real close to getting hit once.

5 pin bowling pins are on strings, so I’d often have to go the the back and untie two pins that got their strings tangled. There is no rake, but a cover drops with ads on it while the pins get reset, or in this case while I’m back there untangling pins. The cover is basically just a rubber mat. It does not stop the ball.

One time some genius decides to hurl a ball down the lane while I’m back there on the lane. I was on my hands and knees in the middle of the lane, but after having untangled pins for years I could FEEL the ball was coming down my lane.

Obviously balls going down adjacent lanes is common while untangling pins, and I guess I learned what that sounded/felt like. This time I could sense the vibrations in the ground were different, so I stood up and moved to the side of the lane…. And a ball went whizzing by me right down the middle of the lane, where I was kneeling a second before.

Saved myself a lot of pain that day…. maybe even a broken bone or two.

I feel like I see this anecdote a lot..."anxiety is increasing because the world is going to shit", and I want to say my own anxiety issues are caused by this...

But then I think of my parents, who lived through decades of a cold war. Or my grandparents who lived through WW2. Or the countless generations before who lived in fear of something as common as the flu. The fact is, our generation lives in the safest era in human history,

Have you had an accident or any experience when you needed to contact your insurance agent for an incident that occurred while Ubering? If so, how did that go, and did you receive coverage?

As I understand it there is a huge kurfuffel over whether insurance will cover an individual using their personal car for commercial purposes.

Do most customers use the word 'panties' or 'underwear'? I feel like an old pervert just hearing the P word, I have no idea why.

People always say 'moist' is a disgusting word, or 'scab' or something, but for me the word is 'panties'.

No. Given I was a 17 year old kid at the time, and I didn’t get hurt, I did nothing.

They likely didn’t know I was down there, and they thought they were rolling a ball at some tangled pins.

But in hindsight, I should have warned them, or at least told my manager and let him make the call.