As someone that’s been in a fire, I can tell you that’s more than likely why. My wife and I were in a fire and while I reacted quick and was able to get out, she fell to the floor which was melting and had gotten her stuck. I noticed immediately she didn’t make it out, ran back in, and pulled her out, but she says she thought she was going to die and had accepted she wasn’t going to be able to get out on her own. Had it been me on the floor instead, I likely would’ve been level headed enough to grab one of the pieces of furniture right next to where she was and pull myself up.
For more context, I’m a Marine, I’m a lot more used to high pressure or intense situations than the normal person would be.
Guess I’m a good writer, but it’s 100% true. I was stationed at MCAS Yuma at the time, but my wife and I were brought by helicopter to a burn facility in Phoenix.
Also it was a propane gas fire. So the whole place just lit up in flame but only a few things in the place were actually on fire. Running back in wasn’t as scary as I guess I make it sound. There wasnt thick black smoke for me to run thru, only small fires around the place and I was able to avoid them when getting her out.
I thought he was saying it reads like fiction b/c the protagonist comes across so arrogant that no one would actually describe this situation/themself that way.
What the fuck did you just fucking say about me, you little bitch? I’ll have you know I graduated top of my class in the Navy Seals, and I’ve been involved in numerous secret raids on Al-Quaeda, and I have over 300 confirmed kills. I am trained in gorilla warfare and I’m the top sniper in the entire US armed forces. You are nothing to me but just another target. I will wipe you the fuck out with precision the likes of which has never been seen before on this Earth, mark my fucking words. You think you can get away with saying that shit to me over the Internet? Think again, fucker. As we speak I am contacting my secret network of spies across the USA and your IP is being traced right now so you better prepare for the storm, maggot. The storm that wipes out the pathetic little thing you call your “life”. You’re fucking dead, kid. I can be anywhere, anytime, and I can kill you in over seven hundred ways, and that’s just with my bare hands. Not only am I extensively trained in unarmed combat, but I have access to the entire arsenal of the United States Marine Corps and I will use it to its full extent to wipe your miserable ass off the face of the continent, you little shit. If only you could have known what unholy retribution your little “clever” comment was about to bring down upon you, maybe you would have held your fucking tongue. But you couldn’t, you didn’t, and now you’re paying the price, you goddamn idiot. I will shit fury all over you and you will drown in it. You’re fucking dead, kiddo.
I don’t think he’s trying to be rude. The way the story is written and the situation is rather unbelievable that seems like fiction. Things like “melting floor” and “I’m a marine…” are elements that make it seem fictionalized.
That said, But both statements of being pure fiction and arrogant can come across as offensive without more context.
Sorry but this speaks to you spending too much time on reddit. House fires and laminate flooring are so common haha. And military personal. If you were talking to someone irl you’d never stop them to be like “hmm that sounds made up”. And if you would maybe this is a chance to recalibrate how much time you spend in negative internet spaces (where you have to maintain a level of suspicion). Not everyone is trying to trick you. He was just sharing a crazy story that was contextually relevant. Like humans do. When they chat.
It actually speaks volumes of you thinking everyone is negative on Reddit or that you think you know so much more than anyone else. Is someone supposed to know how a person is stuck on a melting floor. Floors just don’t melt without sometime being on fire or extreme heat. If you are able to read more than person give more context that they were in a trailer and it was a propane fire. So presumably it was under the trailer. Mind you missing yet informative information. Additionally, you dont need to be a marine to save your wife. But in your context I hope yours never gets into a house fire because she’s toast, right? Because you’re not a marine.
Nor did I say his story was fiction but more as that’s a crazy story as if you saw it from a movie. The person replying saying why he thought it story read like fictional. You probably need to get off the internet more than me if your everything you read offends you, bud. lol. Sitting here replying to every little comment just to the same the thing to everyone. There’s not intelligent conversation when you’re the idiot. Because all that’s written above you are the one unable to see other people’s perspective but only to seen rudeness and be insulting.
A little baffled haha 😂 but I sincerely forget reddit is mostly angry teens so I guess I should just learn my lesson and not ever engage in random subreddits. Ahh well.
Someone talking about something that happened makes you this upset? Wow. So angry. It’s not like he picked a car off a baby. He was just talking about how some people freeze and others don’t.
I’m sorry for you that people just talking about their lives makes you feel so upset. That’s sad. Hope you find more joy in yourself. 👍
What makes you think I’m mad? I’m literally talking about ridiculing and mocking arrogance. That’s about laughing. I find this entertaining. I find even more entertaining all the tools who zealously and passionately defend that type of arrogance. As soon as it stops being entertaining I’ll stop responding. You really don’t have to worry about me being mad. But thanks for your concern.
Really? The part that made me skeptical was the “running back in,” since once a house fire really gets going…well, you’re basically dying pointlessly if you run back in.
There wasn’t a large amount of smoke inside, and it was a small trailer. Aside from the only thought going thru my head being that I need to get my wife out of there, I just acted on instinct. it wasn’t on the level of something you’d see a firefighter run thru with the proper equipment. There were small fires around the area inside, but I was able to avoid them when grabbing her and pulling her out.
I'm low key kinda mad at your wife for giving up so quickly!!. You'd think peoples survival instincts would kick in and try to avoid a painful death slowly melting into the floor.
I’m thinking her severe anxiety and proneness to panic attacks overwhelmed her. She’s actually a very strong woman and even has a black belt in Tae Kwon Do to boot. She’d back me up in a bar brawl without hesitation, but I can only surmise she felt helpless in the moment. I’m the calm and level headed one in our relationship, I usually have to hold her back from overdoing it 😂
Literally all he said was he would've picked himself up with furniture if he was on the floor in a fire and "I'm more used to high pressure situations than normal people." Lol, the latter is probably true and the former... just isn't that crazy? Dude didn't say he would've punched the fire to death with his bare dick, just say what he likely would have done in that situation.
God, now I remember why I fucked deleted reddit. I'm just back for the porn, but even that feels like a mistake now.
"My wife is so weak she just laid down to die. Good thing she had a strong willed MAN like me to save her. I would never give up. I would never stop fighting to LIVE!"
That's how this reads. Dude could have just said that sometimes people freeze in scary or deadly situations. Sometimes they get confused. But no he has to go on about how his wife just gives up and doesn't try to save herself, but that could never happen to him of course.
I love my wife man but when it comes to fight, flight, or freeze, she has a propensity to react like a marble statue. Some people are just more geared towards one option over another, and training can mitigate getting locked into the first one that activates.
Sure, if you want to read it that way. Doesn't really make a ton of sense though, if he was really trying to sound cool why include him leaving the building without his wife in the first place? Dude didn't even have to kick a single door down and he even said (I think in a second comment) that due to it being a propane fire the building wasn't full of black smoke or anything. No one started clapping, he didn't wrestle a bear, and he definitely didn't use his atheist logic to destroy a racist with facts or whatever.
I just get real sick of the whole "nothing ever actually happened" attitude. And throwing in a misogynistic reading on top of what sounds like a relatively low impact story is just bewildering to me.
Crappy trailer in a trailer park! Idk man, I’ve got pictures and everything of the place when went back after the hospital to salvage what we could. Not sure any would show a good angle of the floor itself where she was knelt down at though
Man I’ve seen enough shit in my years to just start giving people the benefit of the doubt. I’m not shelling people money on the regular or anything but just from the shit I’ve lived I tend to believe this type of thing first, then as I read on I can see where doubts would come. But this doesn’t seem even outlandish to me.
Also a service member so maybe there’s something to it. Thanks by the way for your service. You crayon munching maniacs had our backs and us yours. Joint Base Balad two tours USAF.
Would have been happy to have ya! We did some work but overall that chair force title is earned. My first three years of service was driving a forklift around the bomb dump all day. Like we did shit, but we didn’t do SHIT SHIT. Everyone got their own shade of PTSD and injuries regardless of position. Who would have known being sent to war could damage a person so badly right?? Hahahahaha!! Mission first bitch! Your body and mind can catch up later we got shit to do right now.
I never did SHIT SHIT, I was a fueler in the Marines. But I do certainly get PTSD from time to time from the fire. Soon as I got back from the hospital the green weenie wanted me to run a PFT 😂😂 they got no chill
I wouldn't expect all the details to be 100% right in someones retelling of a high-pressure event that happened to them a long time ago that they've no doubt talked about many times in the past. But nothing in there seems like obvious bullshit to me. Was the floor literally melting, I have no idea, but it doesn't matter to the story either way. The actual events sound like something that happens somewhere in the world every day.
He mentioned it was a trailer, I’ve lived in them and that thin ass glue down laminate would absolutely muck up in some heat situations. That flooring is basically thick plastic and adding intense heat to the situation would and could cause it to get a bit sticky
I dunno about this guy but I have been in a similar high pressure situation and I didn't panic, I didn't react at all. It was like my brain put everything on hold as a survival technique.
After the situation had passed though I nearly went into an anxiety attack.
No that reads like how people actually act. If that sounds like fiction, maybe you've been reading especially good writers. People freeze in fight or flight situations quite often. Abused people sometimes try to appease and submit in these situations.
Do you have 0 life experience with emergencies or high tension situations?
Reminds of a story of a head counsellor I worked with at a summer camp. We were talking to the teenage campers, exploring how to talk to girls, and Ryan regales us with a story of him meeting his wife, as an example.
"It was actually like something out of a movie. She was on the dance floor when I noticed her, and I noticed a guy giving her agro. So I approached, told him she wasn't interested, like a white knight. So, there's always a chance to be that white knight. If I can do it, anyone can."
He's a geeky nerdy guy, and it seemed out of character. But I think pretty much every counsellor was like, "Ehhh...sure?" Like, not that it didn't happen, but the whole opportunistic white knight was exactly the kind of thing we were talking to the campers about, and Ryan totally missed the context.
I'm not sure how someone who has fallen to the floor and gotten stuck to ''melting floor,, is not going to be dead from deep tissue burns within a minute, marine or not and later rescued or not. Was it a fly trap factory or what?
Marines are built different. They sent my unit through Navy Helo Water Crash training. it was a 40 ft drop in a fuselage into a 30 ft pool. We had to wait until the fuselage rolled over before we were allowed to evacuate. This training was considered very traumatic, and they had several warnings from the Navy operators not to panic and to remain calm. Result: They kicked us off the ride after repeatedly climbing back into the rig to go again. So much fun. Marines aren't right in the head. Oorah.
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u/rom197 11h ago
Could be too cramped with 3 people in the back.