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Probably my worst memory of around 3rd grade was when I left the swing in such a high and terrifying arc, that I shat myself when I landed. Also my first intro
by cheese_van 3y ago
Probably my worst memory of around 3rd grade was when I left the swing in such a high and terrifying arc, that I shat myself when I landed. Also my first introduction to Mother's Logic after I explained why I propelled myself into the air: "If the other boys jump off a cliff, are you going to do that too?"
- bagels 3y agoThe only answer to that is: of course I would
- JumpCrisscross 3y agoCliff diving is a thing.
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- bee_rider 3y agoMy friends are pretty level-headed, if they are all jumping off the cliff, I bet there’s something really bad chasing them, I should jump too.
- bcraven 3y ago'Bridge' https://xkcd.com/1170/ https://xkcd.com/1170/
- bryanrasmussen 3y agoI'm jumping first, they have to follow me!
- thedanbob 3y agoAs a kid I once tried to jump off a swing that was much taller than I was used to and instead of landing on my feet I hit flat on my back. Thankfully the ground was relatively soft. That was the day I learned that the phrase "knocked the wind out of me" can be literal: I couldn't breathe right for a few minutes after.
- saalweachter 3y agoI had a similar experience walking over a set of bars (on a hog feeder, not a playground), slipping, and landing right on my diaphragm on top of a bar. It was a small eternity before I could take a breath.
- jvm___ 3y agoIf one of the snow-buried sidewalk tiles is raised higher than the others; don't push a snow shovel with your hands against your chest, when you pickup speed and then slam to a stop on the raised bit...
- jtokoph 3y agoI haven’t shoveled snow in years but you just brought back some surprisingly good memories of shoveling snow in my teens.
- aikinai 3y agoI also did that and had never heard of getting the wind knocked out of you. I thought I had collapsed my lungs and was going to die. I tried to tell a friend but couldn’t talk obviously. So I just sat on a bench to accept my fate. “Mom will be very sad” I remember thinking. Fortunately the breath eventually comes back…
- pluijzer 3y agoThat is very interesting. I had a similar experience when I was I child. I had a toy electronics set and thought of using an outlet instead of the weak battery. Of course I got a nasty shock. I was sure I would die know. I wasn't really scared or upset about that. More about how my parents would feel. It wouldn't be fair that my father had to carry his dead son out of the house so I sat outside against the wall of the house waiting to die. Reading your report makes me wonder if this is just the state of mind of a child.
- rwoerz 3y ago+1 although it was a climbing tree in my case from which I wanted to abseil (with a very thin rope)
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- jojobas 3y ago"My friends are reasonable people, if they decided to jump off a cliff it means whatever is chasing us is worse than the fall".