mrbills67
Youth should stay in the past!
Well...I was in Connecticut recently for a family emergency. While I was there I thought I would get a fishing license, go fishing and think things out. Later that day I went to my buddy's house and low and behold there was a rope swing in his backyard.
"Have a go" he says. So like the dummy I can be, I did...
...I swung out, started to spin and swung back. No problem, except when I tried to stop and get off of it, my foot slipped off the "launching rock" and away I went out in an arc. At first I was going away from the tree then I was heading straight for it going backwards. I put my left arm out behind me to brace the impact, dumb move on my part.
First the wrist hit, then my shoulder, then my head, and finally I dropped 3 or 4 feet to the ground. My buddy said when my head hit he could hear it go clear up the 40ft stump.
By now, most people are saying "why didn't you just jump off?" Well, at the "launching rock" the seat on the swing is about 2ft off the ground at full swing out you are about 25ft off the ground, a real steep section of yard, so just jumping off wasn't really an option. Neither was fishing, I never did get to go.
So remember boys and girls...Feel as young as you want but act your age!
Youth should stay in the past!
Well...I was in Connecticut recently for a family emergency. While I was there I thought I would get a fishing license, go fishing and think things out. Later that day I went to my buddy's house and low and behold there was a rope swing in his backyard.
"Have a go" he says. So like the dummy I can be, I did...
...I swung out, started to spin and swung back. No problem, except when I tried to stop and get off of it, my foot slipped off the "launching rock" and away I went out in an arc. At first I was going away from the tree then I was heading straight for it going backwards. I put my left arm out behind me to brace the impact, dumb move on my part.
First the wrist hit, then my shoulder, then my head, and finally I dropped 3 or 4 feet to the ground. My buddy said when my head hit he could hear it go clear up the 40ft stump.
By now, most people are saying "why didn't you just jump off?" Well, at the "launching rock" the seat on the swing is about 2ft off the ground at full swing out you are about 25ft off the ground, a real steep section of yard, so just jumping off wasn't really an option. Neither was fishing, I never did get to go.
So remember boys and girls...Feel as young as you want but act your age!