Fondly? Dude, you were very lucky. You should be looking back at that story as an important life lesson. Luck and circumstance let you walk out of there alive.

It reminds me very much of this scene from the movie Training Day:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=e9LQVejASCU

I've had fortunately very few such life lessons. Every one of them is a roll of the dice. Sooner or later your're gonna roll snake eyes. So after each one I changed my life to minimize the chance of something similar happening in the future.