Skydiving

[b-ri]

@bennyfizzle

I jumped at Duanesburg, I was 15 (yes, I know it was/is illegal to jump at that age, but my mom has been trying to kill me for years, and we lied), I don’t remember much of the facilities, but they all seemed pretty knowledgable about the sport.

And only about the sport. I didn’t die, so that was cool.

The whole ‘afraid of heights’ thing is like, non-existant. I’m terrified of being 15 feet up on a ladder, the feeling I got when the door of the plane opened at 10k feet and having to grab the wing support and step out was entirely different. Your brain kind of does this:

and blocks a lot of it out.

Like, we were freefalling for like 45 seconds, but it seemed/seems like about 5 seconds in my memory. All I remember is the door opening, looking down, grabbing the wing support and stepping out, giving the thumbs up tot he camera woman, pulling the chute cord, and then the searing pain from my thighs as the straps dug in because the pads had shifted at some point. I was in agony until we landed and it was pretty hard to walk after lol.

this in more ways than 1 is strangly similar to the first time i had sex