I was at dinner with some wealthy Haitians who may or may not have acquired their money through unconventional means

Anyways this guy is telling a story about how he was once in the country when he was placed on the equivalent of their Most Wanted list

The entire military was looking for him and he was talking about how he had to bribe officers and soldiers to take him across the border to the DR, while being shot at, getting Molotov cocktails thrown at him, crawling through army tunnels to escape

The story was absolutely nuts like straight out of a movie

And the girls we were with were enamored, “omg was that scary!? What’d you do next??”

And the whole time I’m sitting there thinking, holy fuck. You may think about how having guns and being in shootouts is cool, like it’s a badge of honor

But to me that sounded absolutely awful. Through so many points he could have died. And this cool story turns into he’s an RIP 

Hope my life never gets to a point where I’m in a situation like that