choices

The universe is shifty and unpredictable, and it's impossible to know when an unforeseen danger will be thrown right at you. But sometimes our spidey senses light up, allowing us to make either fast or seemingly precognitive decisions that help us dodge massive bullets. Sometimes a crazy close call is up to chance, but other times people feel a gut instinct keeping them safe.

The inconvenient thing about the future is that you never know what seemingly insignificant thing is going to become a big deal later on. Here are people whose butterfly effect-style small choices ended up having huge repercussions later in life. For more stories about unlikely things that happened to people check these out.

If you ever wanted to have to make some hard choices, this AskReddit thread asked people to share the most difficult "would you rather"s they'd ever considered. If you're out with friends and the conversation's getting slow, drop in one of these confusing and kinda effed up scenarios to get people's brain juices flowing.