If God'd meant us to jump out of aeroplanes He'd have given us anti-gravity boots.
Tuesday, 2. September 2008, 23:29:21
We made another attempt to find the garden centre which last time ended with us driving past the burning car. It's possible to go almost the entire distance by motorway or motorway-class roads.
I hate 'em.
So we were driving down a little road that looks on the map like a short cut across a corner, but in fact is slower on account of it having a lower speed limit and being interupted by a couple of villages and a set of traffic lights that are always at red. It's also a bit windy twisty turny. This is because it has to navigate its way around small businesses, houses, farms... Ooh, and a jumping-out-of-airplanes training site.
Every time I go past that place I look at the dirigible anchored just slightly too high to safely jump out of and think you'd never get me up in one of those things, let alone an aeroplane, yet still I see people leaping out of it without so much as a handkerchief for a parachute to test their safe landing skills.
Today it was unused, empty, nobody home, but there were a lot of blackbirds flying around. One of them looked a bit odd. This was because it was a really big blackbird a whole lot higher up in the sky than the rest. Further investigation revealed it to be a human being decending with a parachute.
As I watched I realised that there 5 of them, and they would probably be landing just as we drew level, and sure enough, as we drove past, a person and parachute combo drifted slowly into view, travelling a whole lot slower than the people that jumped from the balloon travelled at. As I slowed down to watch (Don't try this at home kids, rubbernicking while driving a car can be excedingly hazardous to your health) another 'chute shot into view. The parachutist was pulled madly on his ropes and swinging crazily from side to side, he was also decending at a fair old rate of knots.
He landed on the other side of an outbuilding and must have created quite a hole. I couldn't see any way he could have survived but apparently he did, there was no mention of any accident on the news. Unless there's a cover up...
I still couldn't find the garden centre either.
What's going on?
I think we should be told.
I hate 'em.
So we were driving down a little road that looks on the map like a short cut across a corner, but in fact is slower on account of it having a lower speed limit and being interupted by a couple of villages and a set of traffic lights that are always at red. It's also a bit windy twisty turny. This is because it has to navigate its way around small businesses, houses, farms... Ooh, and a jumping-out-of-airplanes training site.
Every time I go past that place I look at the dirigible anchored just slightly too high to safely jump out of and think you'd never get me up in one of those things, let alone an aeroplane, yet still I see people leaping out of it without so much as a handkerchief for a parachute to test their safe landing skills.
Today it was unused, empty, nobody home, but there were a lot of blackbirds flying around. One of them looked a bit odd. This was because it was a really big blackbird a whole lot higher up in the sky than the rest. Further investigation revealed it to be a human being decending with a parachute.
As I watched I realised that there 5 of them, and they would probably be landing just as we drew level, and sure enough, as we drove past, a person and parachute combo drifted slowly into view, travelling a whole lot slower than the people that jumped from the balloon travelled at. As I slowed down to watch (Don't try this at home kids, rubbernicking while driving a car can be excedingly hazardous to your health) another 'chute shot into view. The parachutist was pulled madly on his ropes and swinging crazily from side to side, he was also decending at a fair old rate of knots.
He landed on the other side of an outbuilding and must have created quite a hole. I couldn't see any way he could have survived but apparently he did, there was no mention of any accident on the news. Unless there's a cover up...
I still couldn't find the garden centre either.
What's going on?
I think we should be told.
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