steve1 5 #1 September 14, 2002 This is a story of one of the crueler things that I've done: I once had a friend named Melvin in the army who was scared to death of jumping. Yet I had to admire him because no matter how scared he was, he still jumped. But anyway I decided to poke some fun at him. I started telling him that I kept having this dream over and over again. It was about a jumper who jumped and kept falling and falling and finally he smacked into the earth. Then with a worried look on his face, Melvin would ask me to tell him more. So I said that in this dream I would run over there and turn the body over, "and it was you, Melvin." With a serious look on my own face, I would then say, "I wonder if this means anything?" I finally had to quit though because he was getting more and more frightened and I finally was able to show a little empathy and quit. Pretty cruel, huh? Aren't you glad you don't have friends like me? Steve1 Quote Share this post Link to post Share on other sites
quatorze 1 #2 September 14, 2002 friends like you who needs enemies I'm not afriad of dying, I'm afraid of never really living- Erin Engle Quote Share this post Link to post Share on other sites
quade 3 #3 September 14, 2002 With friends like you, who needs enemas?quade - The World's Most Boring Skydiver Quote Share this post Link to post Share on other sites
Viking 0 #4 September 14, 2002 QuoteWith friends like you, who needs enemas? people that can't take a dump?<---StrainingI swear you must have footprints on the back of your helmet - chicagoskydiver My God has a bigger dick than your god -George Carlin Quote Share this post Link to post Share on other sites
Iflyme 0 #5 September 14, 2002 This thread went to crap mighty fast! Quote Share this post Link to post Share on other sites
drenaline 0 #6 September 14, 2002 dude don't knock on death's door, not even if its a joke. HISPA 21 www.panamafreefall.com Quote Share this post Link to post Share on other sites
n2skdvn 0 #7 September 14, 2002 Quotedude don't knock on death's door, not even if its a joke. but if ya do knock real fast and run away! He hates that!if my calculations are correct SLINKY + ESCULATOR = EVERLASTING FUN my site Quote Share this post Link to post Share on other sites
Kirils 1 #8 September 14, 2002 You need to do something to get rid of that bad Karma hanging over your head. Might suggest you buy a couple tandem jumps as an 'affirmation of Life" for let's say... someone new to AA or some depressed kid?"Slow down! You are too young to be moving that fast!" Old Man Crawfish Quote Share this post Link to post Share on other sites
steve1 5 #9 September 14, 2002 I know. I had to be a real lowlife to do such a thing, and I'll probably never get into heaven. But I still have to laugh everytime I think of that day. You probably had to have been there to appreciate all the sick humor that was involved. Melvin still jumped the next day. I had to hand it to him. He had a lot of guts. Steve1 Quote Share this post Link to post Share on other sites
VivaHeadDown 0 #10 September 14, 2002 You have a friend named MELVIN?? whaahahahaha Quote Share this post Link to post Share on other sites
freeflir29 0 #11 September 15, 2002 Quotebut if ya do knock real fast and run away! I like to leave a burning bag of dogshit too...... Steve......don't feel too bad. I pick on people that look scared all the time. When I was in the military I used to yell "One more chance to die!!!" to the scared looking Army guys. It was a riot. Quote Share this post Link to post Share on other sites
wingnut 0 #12 September 15, 2002 how's the saying go....."it's one thing to knock on death's door, it's another to bitch slap her and runaway" ______________________________________ "i have no reader's digest version" Quote Share this post Link to post Share on other sites
steve1 5 #13 September 15, 2002 Clay, When I was about 12, I too was into leaving burning sacks of dog shit. It was great sport. I'm glad I got into skydiving or I might still be doing the same thing. Steve1 Quote Share this post Link to post Share on other sites
Airhead 0 #14 September 15, 2002 Hey, Don't be too analytical about the whole "Joking About Fear" thing. Sat. before this past Labor Day I began AFP training. I was in a class of 10: 5 Static Line and 4 others in AFF. The Static Line guys got to go while the rest of us waited with our AFF instructor. I was gonna pay an extra $25 to have a 2nd JM to help me out, just like the other AFF were gonna have. I'd done tandems only previously, but I was current, so I didn't necessarily HAVE TO go AFF. After waiting all day for a 2nd AFF JM who never was available, my JM said that I COULD go with only him if I so choose to do so. I paced back and forth mumbling and holding my head and running my hands through my hair for about 45 minutes thinking it through...To the accompaniment of morbid jokes and verbal prods from the licenced jumpers, riggers, video nuts and some instructors. Well, their joking around with me and AT me helped my resolve and got me motivated! Dark Humor isn't always cruel! It really can take the tension out of stressful situations...especially when the addreniline is really pumping. The key is to SHARE the laugh together with the person you are supposedly joking with. My sense of Humor is pretty off-beat, I can find the oddest things can really give me a laughing fit...It doesn't matter if others don't "get it." I'm probably pretty funny and amusing to them when I "lose it" in laughter over something weird once in a while. It just isn't kind or even funny if the reason for the "joke" makes somebody else miserable. But just in general, ya all need to LIGHTEN UP! Quote Share this post Link to post Share on other sites
Skyrose7 0 #15 September 15, 2002 yah, I guess I am mean too. If I am filling a student load, I like to razz em a bit. People did it to me. Look at them and get wide eyed "shit, I thought they fixed that engine. PLane didn't sound like this the last time I was on...." Their faces are priceless. oh, but I at least tell them I am joking.~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~ The mind is like a parachute--it works better when it is open. JUMP. MaryRose Quote Share this post Link to post Share on other sites
Airhead 0 #16 September 15, 2002 SkKYROSE7, I don't try to be mean either...I still get really tense and stressed about jumping out that door! Freefalling is a rush, but still pretty intense. I absolutely love the descent under the canopy...but then again, it's a challenge to land, well at least this early on it is for me...SO joking around at the DZ and in the plane really can ease things up a bit. HEY REMEMBER, LAUGHTER REALLY IS GOOD FOR YOU! Quote Share this post Link to post Share on other sites
Skyrose7 0 #17 September 15, 2002 hey, I see you are from Michigan, you should get down to Great Lakes Skydivers sometime.~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~ The mind is like a parachute--it works better when it is open. JUMP. MaryRose Quote Share this post Link to post Share on other sites
DENGOPHER 0 #18 September 16, 2002 one word for you dude COLD!!!
