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

  • zzffyfajzkzhnsweqm@sh.itjust.works
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    I noticed that by wearing a fedora (quite unusual where I live) I got used to standing out and people secretly watching me. So this helped me to not be shy to act and help when the people around me are just standing and watching. Even though I rarely wear a hat now I am first to help more often.

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    I mean there are four possibilities:

    1. you’re making this up
    2. you genuinely think this happened, but it didn’t somehow.
    3. this did happen but it was a really odd coincidence, which can happen, we’re 9 billion people after all
    4. 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.

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      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

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      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

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    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”?

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      “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…”

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    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.

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      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.

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    I miss the days when lunatics didn’t have the ability to communicate with anyone further away than the local pub.