Sunday, August 31, 2008
OK, so my husband and I sometimes have some-off-the-wall conversations...and I am sure we are not unusual on that score. Well, this one was a doozy! It centered around a rather...um...odd question.
Here's how it went down...we were talking about his skydiving jaunts (all two of them), and I was yet again stating the fact that there was NO WAY, not in this lifetime or the next that I would want to jump out of a plane for no apparent reason other than "the thrill"...(yeah, whatever, dude). Well, his next mission is to go...wait for this one...SHARKDIVING. WTF, I hear you say. And I would be right there with you on that. And he wants to do it in South Africa too, where if you are any kind of Shark Week enthusiast worth your salt you would know that these maneaters do crazy things like leap out of the water to catch their pray. Lovely. The image alone gives me nightmares. Needless to say I stated that it would be a cold day in Hades before I would ever think of doing such a loonytoons thing. Then he muses that he is always surprised at how many people would never skydive. Um...okaaaay. Then he hits me with the question. Well, which would you rather do??
So then this was my dilemma...ethical of course, since as I stated before...there is no amount of money that would entice me to do either. Ok, maybe if we are talking double digit millions! Anyhoo, lets move on from my easily corrupted soul to the issue at hand...which would I rather choose if I were being dangled off a cliff, held only by my toenails...(lemme give you a moment to digest that little image...)
I thought long and hard, and the answer, Alex Trebeck, is....
a) I would rather jump out of a plane hundreds if meters above sea level (my preferred altitude) plummeting to certain death than face a horrific beast of the deep with a double row of razor sharp teeth (aka a great white shark) shielded only by some iron bars in a tiny cage while submerged in the beasts own environment, thank you!
I think this to be a fair and well thought out answer. How about you?
-Buffy-
1 Comment:
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- Ms D. said...
September 1, 2008 at 7:00 AMNo brainier there, B. I would chose skydiving,too:-). I was just the other day looking at some sharks (actually it was whale shark, the biggest fish), and I have no qualms about it. But then again, the things that thrill me are also quiet funny. I think that the biggest thrill of my life would be to get a bicycle and let myself go off of a hill (nothing too crazy like a mounting biking and stuff), just plain old bike, and a plane old hill, and air in your face (just like I used to do when I was a kid, but maybe little bigger hill). At least I'm sure I would have fun and wouldn't mess my pants by the time I reach the bottom:-).
