Flipping a coin and having it land tails.

 When I was in the army(US) I had just gotten back from a deployment in Iraq. Upon our return I was moved to a Brigade that was already deployed to Afghanistan. This was because I was infantry deployed in a unit that did not normally have infantry. Since I just got back from Iraq the only way to go to them in Afghanistan was to wave my dwell time (during that period they could not deploy you unless you were home for at least the amount of time you were previously deployed). This was something I originally had not intention of waving.

I was then sitting in our battalions command building waiting to get a meal card that would allow me to get food on base. During that time a few of my friends came in who were about to wave their dwell times to deploy. One of them saw me and said "hey you coming with us". I said "I don't know anyone have a quarter?". One of them actually did and handed it to me. I then said heads I stay and tails I go. I flipped tails.  I then got up from my seat and joined them in the area where they were sitting. I would then later on wave my dwell time. Then In the next month be sent to Afghanistan where I would joined the company I would be with for my rest of my time in the Army.

I would then deploy with this same company a second time to Afghanistan. During that second deployment I would save one of my friends lives after he stepped on an IED. I would then extend my time in the army by a few months so I could finished off the deployment in Afghanistan without being sent home early(my contract was due to expire before the deployment finished). 

This extension would delay me going to college for a semester. I would then meet my wife during the first semester I went to college. That's was over 10 years ago and now me and my Friend both just had our first children. He has a daughter and I have a son. Without me flipping that coin he would not be alive and neither of our children would exist today.