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Yea Tod I reflect on what happened to me all the time, I just dove in with no cares.
I'm lucky also to see this side of life. I think I grow everyday for the better(I hope so).
I'll drink this Beer in your honor today and I'm lucky to know you.
Cheers!
Mark
-------Original Message-------
Date: Saturday, October 16, 2004 14:03:30
Subject: Re: [QUAD-L] Blackjack
Ahhh.... You got it Mark... Both the beer and the year!
A friend of mine bet me $10 I couldn't walk across a wire we came across tied between two trees in the woods of PA. It was about 30 ft long and 9 ft high. Both ends were free, so it wasn't "live"... it was just "there."
So I climbed up one tree and carefully walked across the wire holding onto nearby branches as I went. (Not the first time I'd done such a thing. In fact, it was quite a "mild" act compared to most of my "teen feats.")
At the other end (Yes, I made it the whole distance) I began climbing down. As I reached for a branch to help balance my climb down I stepped on a wet branch and lost my foothold and then missed gripping the branch I was reaching for. I blame Isaac Newton from the events from that point on... him and his law of gravity.
SO... As a Law abiding teen (HA!) I didn't want to break Newton's Law, I opted for breaking my neck instead. I won the $10 for making the distance of the wire. But I lost my battle with the Law I referred to above.
I'm lucky... I spend each anniversary alone (by choice) in a quiet bar with a beer or two reflecting on the years before and after being "born again" as a quad. Lucky I have that choice... lucky I'm alive to do so since most of my "teen feats" and many of my subsequent "quad feats" could easily have put an end to beers in any location... (Singing... "In Heaven there is no beer. That's why we drink it here." LOL)
I'm lucky my path as a quad has enlightened me to many plights I likely would never have considered, .... And lucky to see a side of life that relatively few others (luckily) are ever going to experience.
Thanks for the question, Mark. CHEERS! (Raising my Guinness to ya!)
And Boyd... Thanks for the offer of a distraction, but No worries! I rarely think about it. Was 3pm before it crossed my mind. Not until 8:00 before I thought about it again.
Best to All!
Tod (at 21 & 4 / 1461ths years)
QuadPirate wrote:
| I'm glad you're around to keep me in line Tod!I'll have that beer with you.I'm also assuming you mean your 21st anniversary and if I'm not getting to personal what's the $10 all about? Mark
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Date: Friday, October 15, 2004 23:17:24
Subject: [QUAD-L] Blackjack Today's my blackjack anniversary. I'm looking at a deck of cards right
now. Even though I won the bet and got my $10, I lost.
Time for a beer.
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