24 Events in People’s Lives That Were Obvious Foreshadowing

‘Hey, you’re going a little fast. You should probably slow down’
24 Events in People’s Lives That Were Obvious Foreshadowing

Sometimes, as the saying goes, life is stranger than fiction. 

Other times, it’s painfully, unbelievably cliche. Things can unfold in such a completely boring, predictable fashion that it seems like the Fates themselves are phoning it in, and an event in your life can be hinted at with foreshadowing so blunt and obvious that it reads like a high-schoolers’ attempt at short horror

The following Redditors know a little something about that, as they had to suffer through not only unfortunate events, but ones with less-than-stellar writing — especially in the case of the woman whose future was predicted by a prophet in a diner. 

Give me a break!

DaMorpheusNL 7y ago My dad and I where just about to leave for my soccer game when I decided to rip a massive fart. | shat my pants. My dad starts laughing like a mad man, tears and stuff, then proceeds to yell:'this is how you rip one!' Не shat his pants 19K Award Share ...
Colexion 7y ago Edited 7y ago Not one of mine but its related to me. The day before i was born, my uncle said he'd had a dream that i was born a blue baby like a smurf. Не and my aunt were woken that night from a knock on the door from my dad who said my mum had gone into labour. When i eventually was born, id had the cord wrapped around my neck and was completely blue. I had to be rushed to be resuscitated. Baby blue smurf 9.6K Award Share ...
crazedmikey 7y ago Back when I was about to start high school, the whole family got together at my grandmother's house for an impromptu get together. As I left with my mother I asked, Is grandma going to be alone tonight? my mother confirmed my guess. When asked why I said I don't know, it just rubs me the wrong way. That night my Grandmother had a massive stroke, and wasn't found until 2 and a half days later. She lived... but she wasn't the same. My parents and I ended up taking care of her for the last year
allergic_to_fire 7y ago My cousin was an Intensive Care Nurse. When I was 15 I was talking to her about her job and she told me she was currently looking after a patient who had been burnt. I remember saying to her that it would be horrible to go through something like that. A week later my family home burns down and I get pretty badly burned. Fucking jinxed myself 5.9K Award Share ...
avocado_whore 7y ago Edited 7y ago Seeing a WANTED poster at my college library featuring 3 ridiculously cartoonish police composites. I then looked up an article to see what these people were wanted for; they had robbed someone in the dorms at my school. Huh, that's interesting. I was cracking up at how shitty the suspects looked on the poster, it was very odd. Three weeks later, my house is being raided by the police and it turns out two of my roommates were on that wanted poster along with another one of their friends. It's was wild. | lived
tellyourdoghiforme 7y ago Edited 7y ago I'm not sure if this counts, but my mother was driving through a blizzard with me in the passenger seat, and | said, Hey, you're going a little fast. You should probably slow down. She responded, I know how to drive! I've been doing it for 30 years. Not a minute later we spun out right into the ditch.
Master10113 7y ago There was one time a couple years ago when | was telling my dad about how our car was the only one that wasn't damaged or scratched, which was interesting considering it was the oldest car we had. Surely enough the next day I went on my usual route to school and was at a stop light when I heard the deafening sound of someone slamming their brakes. At the time I thought oh man, is someone about to get hit just before I felt my car jolt forward. Luckily it was just a fender bender and
 7y ago | had two friends in college and we all had the same double major. One of them had broken his femur a year or two before, and I was on crutches for a broken ankle at the time. We had a conversation like this: Friend #2: You two have a lot in common. You're both short and studying X and have broken your legs. Me: I mean, all three of us have the same double major. Friend #2: Well, okay, I guess I'm in the group too. But I don't want to have the injury in common
Somedudewithacanon 7y ago I have the mouth of a sailor and I run it constantly. I had a teacher who i had gotten comfortable with over the course of high school and i ended up feeling comfortable to swear around him. Не told me once that my mouth was gonna get me in trouble later in a professional setting if i didnt learn how to tone it down. Fast forward a couple of years and i was fired from my job for dropping an f bomb in front of the company CFO. 13K Award Share ...
Agent_0101101 7y ago One of my earliest memories when I was a kid, was when I was playing my dad's electric organ in the basement. There was an airplane bottle of tequila on top of it, the kind with the worm. The sunlight came in through the window and lit up the bottle. I was fascinated by it. I would pick it up and hold it. Today I am a recovering alcoholic. It makes a lot of sense when I recall a number of instances like these. 12K Award Share ...
Mackullhannun 7y ago Saw my dad get hit by a sprinkler while in the car so I, a seat behind him and the open window, laughed in the most mocking way possible before promptly getting cut off by the next splash of water which must have been angled slightly differently. Dunno if that counts as foreshadowing, but it's definitely something I'd see coming if it were in a tv show. - 9.3K Award Share ...
Cahnis 7y ago Rolled a 20 sided dice in the morning when i woke up, got a 1. Proceeded to have a terrible fucking day. - 6.1K Award Share ...
piggleston 7y ago Edited 7y ago Driving my friend's car with him in the passenger seat. I didn't have my license and he was letting me practice in his car before the test. A police car pulls behind us and | got all nervous, because what sane person doesn't get nervous with the police directly behind them? My friend is teasing me for being nervous and says, It's not like he's going to pull you over! As soon as the last word is out of his mouth, the cop puts his lights on and pulls us over. (It wasn't my
rososie 7y ago Me repeatedly saying 'damn I hate physics' every class since I was 16 might have hinted that the first year of my physics degree wasn't going to go too well... 3.3K Award Share ...
etc_etcmashedpotatos 7y ago Edited 7y ago A few months before I went to Afghanistan I got a tattoo of a guardian angel. The tattoo cuts off right around the middle of her legs. I ended up getting both my legs blown off. When I realized the irony of the tattoo I got prosthetic legs added onto her with the Sangin valley in the background. I'll provide pictures if you guys are interested.
Graytis 7y ago My wife, a beautiful British redhead, was annoyed as a girl by the fact that she had freckles. Her mother used to tell her that Americans loved freckles, and she'd wind up marrying a rich American someday. She was half right. - 1.1K Award Share ...
operachick209 7y ago One time, when I was a kid eating at a diner with my mom, an older man came up to us. Не asked me if I was a singer. (I was like, 9/10 years old) | said yes, and my mom was cautious to keep talking to this man. Не went on to say one day, you're going to sing for millions of people. Your voice is going to touch people and heal people all over the world. I was pretty creeped out, my mom thought he was some kind of prophet. Haha Fast forward 16 years,
 7y ago When I was a kid, I would always poke fun at my uncle for carrying his gun with him when we would go camping. I was young, naive, and we lived in southern Arizona. It wasn't like there were any bears out here. Не always said You never know Well, flash forward to last year. I was desert camping with a a good friend of mine and his gf. They went to their camp and I stayed out to see the stars. I loved stargazing out in the wilderness, you can see the whole milky way and
Maercure 7y ago Was with one of my ex, it was a long distance relationship. We had matching rings. She lost hers one day and I ended up loosing mine too. We split up not long aftee. (i see it as forshadowing even though for someone exterior it's obvious that not all relationships last) 571 Award Share ...
DeadOnceDecided 7y ago This fucks me up every time i think about it. My younger brother turned 17 and he was really distraught because for years he never thought hed make it to 17. Не was happy but you just knew how intensely he believed that feeling. 2 days shy of a month AFTER his 17th birthday he was shot and didnt make it. 473 Award Share ... + 10 more replies
dangerousgirlc 7y ago When I was younger, I was obsessed with the Salem witch trials. Less than a year later, I was diagnosed with a rare disease that some feel was responsible for some of the strange behaviors and occurrences blamed on witchcraft during that time period. 280 Award Share ...
Av8r96 7y ago Earlier this year, I was having dinner with my parents and somehow injuries came up. I mentioned/bragged that I hadn't broken any bones or had any stitches in all my 21 years. 3 days later I was involved in a head on collision where | broke 5 bones, got 34 stitches, a punctured lung and bleeding in my brain. Also, the last message my Dad sent me before the crash was 'its really wet, lots of accidents. Be careful.' 248 Award Share ...
kwizzle14 7y ago At my wedding our DJ messed up and started playing the lullaby version of my husband and I's first dance. We gave him a look that it was the wrong song, nervously laughed and told our guest that no we weren't making an announcement that we were pregnant. Не started the correct version very quickly after and didn't think anything of it. Enjoyed the rest of my night, got a little drunk and just had a blast with my new husband. Guess who got pregnant their wedding night? 237 Award Share ...
Shellbyvillian 7y ago The hundreds of times | joked about strengthening my immune system while eating something off the floor or something else gross or unsanitary. I have an autoimmune disease now. It just got too powerful. 2.1K Award Share ...

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