jkcarr

Hi my name is Jaimie, and I work for a G A Airport as a staff assistant - aka jack-of-all-trades. "The Chairman needed this yesterday, can you have it done by my 1:00 meeting?" - - 2-1/2 more years of this and I'm outa here with some sort of pension in sight there are dreams...and there is destiny

It was a long time in the making....Anything with flight fascinated me as a child - planes, parachutes, birds, etc. I would jump from the tops of tornado slides, doing front flips out of tall trees, (some landings were worse than others) anything to be airborne for mere seconds. What finally happened was I pooled a bunch of supposed crazy people at work to come along and skydive. Of course everyone in the talk stages was in for it. When I came back after doing some research I again took a poll. About half of the initial bunch agreed. O.K., about a week later I posted a sign up sheet and asked for the deposit money. Slightly less than what I had hoped for. Still, by the day before, a dozen people had signed up and handed me over their deposit money (I had long since sent the check covering ten people to the DZ). Well, THE day arrived, and how many show??? Four... Yes, Four. We went, we jumped, and the DZ was nice enough to not keep the nonrefundable deposit. We went out to celebrate and treated ourselves to some great food, good wine, and embelished the story for anyone who would listen. This all done on my non-skydiving friends deposit. (They wouldn't know we had it refunded, right) Do think think that being that is was the middle of November and obscenely cold had anything to do with the low turn out? there are dreams...and there is destiny

That was beautiful, Chris. I have overwhelming emotions that I have been fighting off, and your remembrance of Roger caused them all to come spilling out. Roger was loved by everyone. Even those of us that left the sport feel this loss. My prayers to all who are struggling to cope and understand. God speed, Roger. Jaimie