As a Ukrainian, I can’t even imagine ever dodging a bigger bullet than when I left Ukraine before the war started…
If I had stayed there I’d have to either constantly hide from the “draft officers” or risk my life trying to either (of course illegally) cross the border to Romania through mountains/rivers or to the occupied territorries. Or I’d just be dead already from a shell…
Literally life versus death decision.
I am… not exactly sure actually.
I had to register with “draft office” before I left the country, so they definitely know about me.
Probably I’m not considered a criminal for now, as members of my family who are still in Ukraine did not receive a “draft notice” addressed to me. If they do ever receive it though, then probably I’ll be considered a criminal shortly after (because obviously I am not going to answer it).
I don’t closely follow the new laws they pass though… Maybe I am already a criminal because I didn’t update my data with the “draft office” or something 🤷♂
I’m from Israel.
I was abroad on October 7th.
Was helping look for a lost pet and saved myself looking in the wrong places because he had become diseased and bit and infected the person who found him.
Dunno why this got downvoted, not being bit by and getting sick from an animal is dodging a bullet. What, are we supposed to be “It’s a poor 'lil guy, just be happy you get rabbies?”
It’s because I’ve triggered a lot of raised eyebrows from people elsewhere who consider it their pilgrimage (because that’s how much they are peeved by me) to find me in other places and vandalize/spam my stuff and experience, hence something I often say which itself also gets the same stones thrown at me. Somedays it seems I can’t walk to the post office without being showered with phantom disdain.
OP did you think this was the matrix? Who do you think is literally dodging bullets?
The term frequently means narrowly avoiding a bad outcome, regardless of how it happens. Often it’s nothing more than Mr Magoo-ing out of the way.
There are remarkably few people in the world who can actually dodge a literal bullet. Everything else is just luck or escaping.
I was 19 years old when a random chick literally asked me if I wanted to fuck her one night that I was jogging at the park. Like the typical virgin that I am just smiled and kept running… She was pretty, I should’ve just bit the bullet, especially since my sex life is non existent now.
