What
is the hardest thing you have ever done?
(sooo many choices for me here)
Now, let’s see… for sure one of the hardest things I’ve ever
done is jump out of a plane. And truly, I most likely would have chickened out
had someone not been literally attached to my backside and thrown me out. Yes,
I paid actual money for this experience.
For those of you who haven’t gone skydiving, let me just paint
the picture for you. You arrive and go through a relatively fast training,
where the instructions are basically like, “Free fall into the flight position”.
Personally, I thought there could have been a little more meat to the training,
but apparently they’re “agile”. We all got leather helmets (I’m
still not sure why) that looked like something a 1920’s fighter pilot would wear. Except I had no access to things that fire projectile
rockets, so that kind of took the fun out of it.
We all got jumpsuits. Mine was neon purple, and with the helmet made me look like Tinky Winky pretending to be an actual bullet.
Once we reached our cruising altitude, a giant hole in the side of the plane
magically appeared, and people starting jumping. I was the third to
go, and for some reason the instructor strapped to my back decided I should sit
on the edge of the opening with my body dangling outside of the plane. This
disturbed me greatly.
And even though I sometimes bend the rules, I have a pretty strict policy about doing exactly what I’m told in most new learning
situations. So instead of trying to grab onto the side of the plane I just kind
of whimpered and peed a little bit, and the next thing I knew I was falling out
of the sky with the intensity of a dateless cheerleader a week before prom.
Which is pretty intense.
Which is pretty intense.
Should you choose to do this activity, please know that you will
NOT be able to breathe normally. Or at all for about the first 10 seconds.
After the hypoxia sets in though, it’s really pretty cool. You should totally
do it. Did I sell it?
