Of Pride and Envy

Joseph E. Smith · Post by **Joseph E. Smith** » Wed Aug 02, 2006 6:05 pm

These next series of photos are a source of great pride and envy for me. My wife set a goal, and saw it through without so much as batting an eye. I am extremely proud of her and just a little envious (I'm too fat to tandem jump

).

Laurie and her friends before boarding. Laurie is the one in the middle standing.

She is ever an inspiration to me!!!

scottielvr · Post by **scottielvr** » Wed Aug 02, 2006 6:54 pm

I'm just insane enough to disagree with that narrow-minded sentiment about "why would anyone jump out of a perfectly good airplane," so I think Laurie totally rocks! Your pride in her is sweet (and your envy understandable). Good on you both.

chas · Post by **chas** » Wed Aug 02, 2006 7:09 pm

I've always wanted to jump, but I'm SOOO scared sh*t of heights that I could never do it.

Good on Laurie.

scottielvr · Post by **scottielvr** » Wed Aug 02, 2006 7:22 pm

chas wrote:I've always wanted to jump, but I'm SOOO scared cr*p of heights...

You know, we have to be grownups and deal with the software bowdlerizing our cusswords, but it seems a shame that it spits out prefixes and suffixes too (such as -less), so what's left is not only robbed of colloquial richness, but ungrammatical, too.

Joseph E. Smith · Post by **Joseph E. Smith** » Wed Aug 02, 2006 7:25 pm

chas wrote:I've always wanted to jump, but I'm SOOO scared cr*p of heights that I could never do it.

Good on Laurie.

Funny as it sounds, Laurie is terrified of heights. But she said that at 15,000 feet, it doesn't feel or look the same as say peeking over the edge of a 5 story building.

djm · Post by **djm** » Wed Aug 02, 2006 7:30 pm

Don't fret, Joe. I'd be happy to shove you out a plane any day.

djm

fel bautista · Post by **fel bautista** » Wed Aug 02, 2006 7:45 pm

emm, they're all standing???

I had a friend of mine do her first jump way back in the 80s and she did it sucessfully. She tucked and rolled (or what ever they do upon landing) gathered her chute and promptly steped in a gopher hole, twisted her ankle and had to have a cast. Needless to say, there were some sharp words when she told her mom what she was doing.

Joseph E. Smith · Post by **Joseph E. Smith** » Thu Aug 03, 2006 3:42 am

djm wrote:Don't fret, Joe. I'd be happy to shove you out a plane any day.

djm

Can I count on you for that?

Flyingcursor · Post by **Flyingcursor** » Thu Aug 03, 2006 4:47 am

That's really cool. Also cool that you supporte her interest.

MarkS · Post by **MarkS** » Thu Aug 03, 2006 6:43 am

Hey, that's awesome Joseph! I've always wanted to do that; wound up taking glider flight lessons instead. It's the next best thing to skydiving.

dubhlinn · Post by **dubhlinn** » Thu Aug 03, 2006 6:55 am

If she was not a Mods wife I would have said that she has got some balls to do something like that.

Well done Laurie

Slan,
D.

Joseph E. Smith · Post by **Joseph E. Smith** » Thu Aug 03, 2006 6:57 am

dubhlinn wrote:If she was not a Mods wife I would have said that she has got some balls...

She does, they're mine.

MarkS · Post by **MarkS** » Thu Aug 03, 2006 8:29 am

Joseph E. Smith wrote:She does, they're mine.

You mean they used to be yours. They're hers now. After all, look who jumped out of the airplane...

Joseph E. Smith · Post by **Joseph E. Smith** » Thu Aug 03, 2006 9:36 am

MarkS wrote:
Joseph E. Smith wrote:She does, they're mine.
You mean they used to be yours. They're hers now. After all, look who jumped out of the airplane...

I sit corrected, and comfortably so, I might add.

The Weekenders · Post by **The Weekenders** » Thu Aug 03, 2006 9:44 am

I'd love to skydive if somebody else paid for it. Ya see, I have these flying dreams quite frequently...