It’s the informal motto of the students at my school. “Seemed like a good idea at the time”
Kyla
January 8, 2006, 5:37am
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Hypno-Toad:
Up in the appalachians some years ago, we got a thick layer of ice over snow. So when I have to head down a steep slope, I didn’t stick to the stairs. I just did my normal thing and took a straight line towards my destination. Diagonally across and down the slope.
For less than one step.
It was so obviously too slippery to walk on that I felt like a complete dumbass. To make things worse, It happened in front of the big windows on the student union so there was probably a big crowd to see it. At least I was unhurt.
This reminds me of the time I discovered black ice.
I had the radio on that morning, and they said there was black ice out, so be careful. It was my first winter in the Midwest, and I idly wondered what black ice was.
Fortunately, there was no crowd to see what happened next.
Seven
January 8, 2006, 7:57am
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Wow.
I got a hand cramp once, but never a knee problem from it.
That might be a sign to ease off a bit.
DianaG
January 8, 2006, 8:07am
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You’ve brought back a memory that I would have preferred remain forgotten.
While travelling, I stopped at a roadside place for a break. The place had a really cool playground with an amazing tall twisty slide. I decided that I was not too old to take a ride on the slide. I climbed the ladder and started down the slippery slope. Immediately I realized a very important fact: slides are made for children, not adults. Between the end of the slide and the ground is a gap of maybe a foot. A little kid with short legs can easily hit the ground running. I, as a long-legged adult, had about two seconds to decide whether I was going to land hard on my butt or hit the ground with my feet and try to run through the fall. I elected to land on my feet. My feet touched down and remained firmly grounded as the rest of my 5’8” body plunged onward and landed face-down in the gravel.
As I slowly, painfully, gracelessly rose from the gravel, I saw a playground full of children staring at me with stunned expressions. I hobbled back to my car in shame.
Slides are in fact made for children, and sometimes, an adult’s ass gets, er… stuck , resulting in said adult being forced to sort of *shimmy * down the slide, whilst pulling with her heels.
‘My friend’ was very embarrassed, and swore off childish things like playgrounds.
And ice cream.
Rick
January 8, 2006, 3:59pm
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What is this “ice” and “snow” you people speak of?
Major hijack following:
How the heck do you pronounce your name? I think of it differently each time I see you here.
So, it is Man-Get-Out or Man-je-to or Man-ja-tout?? This in itself will help to eradicate the ignorance of myself! thx!
So you experienced a sudden arboreal stop…
That hahaOuch just killed me, btw. All the other jokes in this thread, and that’s the one that made me laugh right out loud.
I think it’s an anti-motorcycle device set up by the State of Washington.
