First attempt at jumping off a plane
Today was my first attempt at jumping out of a plane. The place was called Lexington, around 55 miles from where I live in Austin.
The drive to Lexington was good. Texas countryside is blank – absolutely blank. No people, no houses, no animals, not even trees. There are just smooth gray roads running through the yellow-green none-so-dense vegetation. I loved the drive.
Once in a while I saw cow farms. The cows here are fat and healthy, and not skinny as in India. The reason is simple; they are bred to be eaten. The amount of food these cows eat can feed a handful of people for their entire lifetime. The economics of cow farming would be interesting to study!!
Got a scare on the way – the first of its kind. There was this intersection that I was supposed to take a left at. I saw the turn a little too late to brake comfortably. Anyways that was not the problem. While taking the turn, I failed to see a car coming from the other direction. I think it was going at almost 80 miles per hour or thereabout. He managed to swerve around my car – just managing to not crash onto me. The gravity of the potential crash hit me when I heard the long screech and the mark the car left on the road while trying to avoid the crash. Life moves on. That car got onto the gas again and sped off. So did I. It lingered on my mind for some time…
I have been in Austin for now almost two weeks. The weather has been bright and sunny with not a trace of cloud in any of these days. And as Murphy would have it, today was a dark cloudy Sunday.
I signed at various places on the legal document. And then the wait started. Waiting for the clouds to clear. But they did not. Finally, I decided to go back – and the lady there would not refund the money – giving me a ‘jump-voucher’ that I can use anytime in the next two years. Ways people have of locking customers…
So I did not jump today– and maybe that’s why I am here writing. And I am stuck with a lock-in of over $250 – so I guess I don’t have much of a choice but to jump... some other day... sometime soon!!
The drive to Lexington was good. Texas countryside is blank – absolutely blank. No people, no houses, no animals, not even trees. There are just smooth gray roads running through the yellow-green none-so-dense vegetation. I loved the drive.
Once in a while I saw cow farms. The cows here are fat and healthy, and not skinny as in India. The reason is simple; they are bred to be eaten. The amount of food these cows eat can feed a handful of people for their entire lifetime. The economics of cow farming would be interesting to study!!
Got a scare on the way – the first of its kind. There was this intersection that I was supposed to take a left at. I saw the turn a little too late to brake comfortably. Anyways that was not the problem. While taking the turn, I failed to see a car coming from the other direction. I think it was going at almost 80 miles per hour or thereabout. He managed to swerve around my car – just managing to not crash onto me. The gravity of the potential crash hit me when I heard the long screech and the mark the car left on the road while trying to avoid the crash. Life moves on. That car got onto the gas again and sped off. So did I. It lingered on my mind for some time…
I have been in Austin for now almost two weeks. The weather has been bright and sunny with not a trace of cloud in any of these days. And as Murphy would have it, today was a dark cloudy Sunday.
I signed at various places on the legal document. And then the wait started. Waiting for the clouds to clear. But they did not. Finally, I decided to go back – and the lady there would not refund the money – giving me a ‘jump-voucher’ that I can use anytime in the next two years. Ways people have of locking customers…
So I did not jump today– and maybe that’s why I am here writing. And I am stuck with a lock-in of over $250 – so I guess I don’t have much of a choice but to jump... some other day... sometime soon!!
posted by Animesh Kumar at Monday, March 06, 2006
2 Comments:
whenever u go for a jump, remember two things...first to open ur parachute and second... to get whole thing video recorded.:)
Yes sire!! One I have control over, while the other... please keep the prayers on.
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