taoist said:
...and as for Peace being celebrated, I'm all for it. I certainly don't harbor any hard feelings towards you...just think that you fell in the deep end of the pool sometimes.
When I am not sure it is easier to apologize.
Since you mention it there was this time when I was
8 years old and I went to the main city municipal pool with some friends. For some reason some junior high kids dared us to jump off the high dive. They called us names and our group was taken aback by their rudeness. The statement made was we bet five bucks that not one of you 8 year olds can go off the high dive.
Hey five bucks was alot of money.
So in a discussion amongst ourselves , I was picked to go for the cash. They said it woundn't be so bad and after all it would be good for the neighborhoods reputation if one of us went off high dive. And anyways we could go for ice cream after our swim.
That all sounded pretty logical to me. No one asked me if I could swim or not and it didnt look that high up to me. I figured I could use my dog paddling skills with no problem.
Looking back on it I think it was a 20 foot drop off the high dive.
If you got in the line and got to the top and then had to make the walk of shame down the stairs, you got your name put in the paper as a coward or something. All that I knew is that it wasn't going to happen to me.
The view from the top of that high dive was magnificant. You could see the whole city skyline. The water was so blue it didn't look so high up.
And there I was not knowing how to swim with a bunch of unruly swimmers behind me telling me to just jump. So I jumped.
I can say looking back on it that it was not the most gracefull of jumps and towards the end I thought about changing from a jump to a dive. That was a big mistake. I hit the water like a brick and remember thinking that my life as I knew it was over.
I sunk to the bottom at about 15 feet deep.
As I lay there unconscious, I heard music and saw white lights.
Just then, I thought I heard a voice.
Scroll down ........
The voice said. GO AND HANDICAP TITFD PLAYS and SLAM IT DOWN AND I MEAN HARD!
I was pulled from the pool by a blonde lifeguard and the first thing that I saw when I came around was her lips on my lips.
Was I in heaven ? Is this what happens when you get to the hereafter ?
And what was all that about the TITFD plays ...hmmmmm
Scott King of Dogs
