Starting from age 10 when I choked and had a stranger save my life. There’s been 5 instances and they all dressed like this:
Gold chain necklace
Gold earrings
Tracksuit top + tracksuit bottoms that match in colour
High end trainers
Baseball cap
They come out of nowhere to just help me. One time I was feeling unwell and one came up to me out of nowhere to ask if I needed an ambulance. I had no phone on me, and sure enough I was close to fainting (am diabetic)
I live in the UK in case there might be some spiritual/psychic significance to this
In the UK that style/combination is considered unusual/specific
All of them were white
They all looked like different/individual people
Your guardian angel is Goldie.
Maybe you just live in a place full of chavs?
You can’t spell c-h-i-v-a-l-r-y without c-h-a-v
Wait. Are you the person who asks leading questions to get people to say “chav” just so you can scold them for using a “slur”?
“Da G stands for ‘Guardian Angel,’ see? Wicket.”
I mean there are four possibilities:
- you’re making this up
- you genuinely think this happened, but it didn’t somehow.
- this did happen but it was a really odd coincidence, which can happen, we’re 9 billion people after all
- there is a cabal of time travelers who saved you specifically. Which would be cool.
Not that weird all things considered. Don’t worry about it.
5. This is a reflection of the tendency of this particular social group (chavs? Not a Brit spotting expert) to spot and act immediately in response to emergencies rather than ignoring it, waiting for others to act, or pulling out a phone to film
6. Something else we haven’t thought of
we’re 9 billion people
Either you’re a time traveller, you like heavy rounding up or you know something the easily accessible parts of the Internet don’t. Averaging the first three sites* that turned up in a search puts it around 8.25 billion at the time of writing
* Worldometer ~8.26b, The World Counts ~8.11b and Country Meters ~8.34b
Honestly thank you. Probably would happen all the time at 9 billion.
But 8.26 billion? Fuck outta here never going to happen, just too small of a group
Hey man, the line’s gotta be somewhere, right? :p
Maybe you have a guardian slav
“So check this out, I was breakin’ in my new trainers by squatting in the middle of the sidewalk in my tracksuit as one does, and all of the sudden this little bloke starts choking on a Werther’s Original, so i jumped into action…”
Ali G to da rescue
I think everyone else is drawing the wrong conclusions here. Obviously your body is having a severe reaction to people dressed in this specific way, and you have been fortunate that all adidas tracksuits come with a free first aid course.
Your suggestion seems the most likely to me, and I am sure the truth runs somewhere along these lines. It seems possible to me that a certain amount of guilt or sense of responsibility might come along with these clothing choices, which might help explain why the wearers are so well prepared to mitigate sartorial harm.
I miss the days when lunatics didn’t have the ability to communicate with anyone further away than the local pub.
Honestly its strange you’ve had your life saved by strangers 5 times. Maybe your guardian angel is sponsored?
There are a lot of ways to look at this ranging from the more dismissive options that other users have proposed to more philosophical, sociological, and psychological ones. I’m going to focus on the latter.
Carl Jung had a theory of synchronicity where repeat coincidences with no obvious connection to each other seemed to be a common experience in human lives. Nobody really knows why this is the case—maybe it’s some sort of data saving aspect of the universe, predestined fate, or just a pattern recognition quirk in our brains. Regardless, he collected a lot of data over his career of many people, including himself, experiencing the effect in various ways.
A potential sociological explanation would be found in the personalities of people who choose to wear track suits and gold—that outfit is typically associated with “alpha” personality types, athletes, and hooligans. I would imagine that someone in those personality categories would have the necessary qualities to make the somewhat brazen choice to interact with a stranger and take control of a situation, and in the case of the athlete, potentially be more likely to recognize a health problem. 10 people around you might have noticed something was off with you, but the person with the more dominant personality in the room might be more likely to take action first.
There is also the woo woo explanation that some kind of destiny awaits you and those people were there at that time to save you specifically. If you were a time traveler aiming for a time between 1960 and 2060, a track suit would be a comfortable choice of clothing that wasn’t trying to fit into any particular fad, and it would be hard to track that person down later because a lot of people wear that.
The interpretation is up to you to decide, but it sure is an interesting thing to think about. Unlike some other users, I don’t immediately think you’re crazy, I just think you just noticed a very unusual set of circumstances that have multiple possible explanations.
Maybe the less well off have more experience with managing health conditions on their own.
Or maybe this post is trolling. Not saying it is or isn’t. But it’s definitely raised my eyebrow.
That’s weird. I have always associated this style with typical UK “hooligans”. I was not aware that anyone would think it was “unusual”, since so many people actually do dress like that.
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