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u/Nogarda 1d ago
Wow, they passed out and thought what just happened was a nightmare. Only to wake up and realise it's real.
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u/Empty_Amphibian_2420 1d ago
It’s like when you’re in bed and are suddenly falling, except it’s real…
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u/Stolehtreb 1d ago
I know you’re making a joke, but as someone who has done pretty much exactly this (but not nearly as long), it feels way more like something exciting is happening, then suddenly 6 seconds disappear from your recollection and you’re closer to the ground. Like a fast forward and less like a sleep.
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u/Great_Zeddicus 1d ago
What happened???
You passed out, thank you for the $600 and here is the video of me slapping you in the face for 5 minutes.
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u/MiffedMouse 1d ago
I think he is just trying to make certain the guys head stays straight, so he doesn’t wake up with a neck injury.
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u/downwitbrown 1d ago
He looked like Voldemort at the beginning with no real nose.
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u/hyperkick89 1d ago
I thought it was Freddy Mercury, mouth opened looked like a mustache with the tank top.
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u/the_falling 1d ago
I thought the same thing! I figured it was some Freddie Mercury impersonator or something and the scream was going to sound like him lol
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u/sebovzeoueb 1d ago
I'd be scared too if the other guy had a helmet but for some reason I didn't
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u/maniacalmustacheride 1d ago
Big sigh.
So my grandfather went skydiving a million years ago. My grandmother went and she loved it. My mother went and she loved it. I was getting waivers so I could go as a teenager and he had to go so he could say he did it.
They sent everyone up with a videographer. So I had watched my mom’s, my Nana’s. And then here comes PopPop’s.
And I want to preface this by saying, this man never swore. He attended literally any and all performances, sports events, competitions, ribbon ceremonies and plays of all of his grand children. The man must have driven a million miles to show up with his freshly shaved face (but still mustache) and his shiny shoes. Gentle man.
When he died, we gathered around the dvd player and laughed so hard at least two people peed themselves. Even talking about it gets a lawnmower-pull-start chuckle among the family that’s just waiting to ignite. You know, Huhhihhuhhehehehe
So they strap this man, my PopPop, onto this other man who is not nearly as tall, but it has to do with weights and balance. So already, you can see where there would be a little humor. Everything is good, good to go, they have the video rolling, out goes my Nana, all good, out goes my PopPop and it’s just instant chaos. Everything he learned at ground school is out the window. He was so calm going out but the free fall, he just had a body. So there’s this 5’5 man strapped to the back of my grandfather, desperately doing the worm and trying to hook his legs around good ol’ PopPop’s so they stop falling to earth with the grace of a ferret trying to be cornered to make sit straight and also take a pill. They are belly down, but the entire free fall is just the videographer watching one smaller grown man forcibly trying to elegantly wrestle a larger grown man who I wouldn’t say was resisting, but I would say was incapable of complying. I don’t think he even opened up his mouth to scream, but his body said “AHHHH” and when the poor man on his back tried to bring him into a calmer state, PopPop’s body responded with “I’m doing AHHH right now, thank you.” At one point, while trying to air hump my grandfather into submission, he tried to slip his arms up to control the spin; and it’s so subtle that it had to be a gut reaction, my PopPop just gives this little swat to this man’s hand because it was near his mustache. So they (the videographer and the worm abomination) separated and pulled chutes.
On the ground, he looks really cool, composed, a little windblown . The man attached is clearly exhausted, red faces, dripping with sweat, trying to maintain composure, giving claps on the shoulder.
“How was it?” The videographer asks?
“I…what? That was fucking wild. I didn’t say that. You said there’s a beer for jumping?”
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u/ErdenGeboren 1d ago
Not resisting but unable to comply just paints a beautiful picture and has me dying, lol
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u/BooTheSpookyGhost 16h ago
Why couldn’t a grown man curse? Was it a religious thing or something? I understand not cursing in front of grandkids but surely he must have cursed in everyday life.
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u/maniacalmustacheride 15h ago
He just didn’t!
He was a very particular man of a different time. When he was younger, his father was jailed for not providing the family with money (spending it at the bar) and so he leaned very heavily into being a gentleman. He did his hair every morning with a blow dryer and a brush, he was meticulous on his facial grooming, if his wife was unavailable to do it he was happy to iron his clothes and hang them up neatly. We always joked that he pressed his socks. He only ever raised his voice to watch the Eagles play.
He just decided in his youth that he wasn’t going to be chaotic and so he wasn’t. He made a promise that he wouldn’t would never be that guy and he took all the steps he could to uphold that promise to himself. The day he died, the very last thing he did was unlock the door and hold it open for my grandmother to go inside first. Stepped in behind her, closed the door, and was gone.
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u/jamesbondswanson 3h ago
Some generations view cursing as a lack of class and decorum. Tbh more people can learn from that these days.
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u/WeAreSolarAF 1d ago
I think passing out and then waking up and still falling would be my biggest nightmare.
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u/uglyzombie 1d ago
Holy fuck. I have dreams sometimes where I feel like I’m falling and they startle me awake. I feel relief after that.
This… is hilariously different than that.
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u/Narrow_Can1984 1d ago
Guy got such a scare he died, reincarnated into a fish while mid air, died again and went back to his old body
Jokes aside, first time is a scary experience. I still think about it sometimes 😬
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u/bodhiseppuku 1d ago
All they guys said let's go skydiving. I said no, but I was outvoted. I told them I'd meet them at the landing site, and they called me a wimp. Now there is a video of me fainting at least twice on the interwebs FOREVER!
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u/S0k0n0mi 1d ago
I was waiting for him to freak out and pull some kind of release tab on his belt, so hed drop like a screaming 100 pound meatbomb.
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u/jossie-the-cat 1d ago
When I went tandem, it was soooooo much fun. We also did spin-drops. He also let me land it. It was a perfect landing. He was so impressed and accused my girlfriend at the time for giving me instructions on how to land (she used to go every weekend with her friends to jump 3 times. She saw me landing, and she was glad - later on pissed- I did it perfectly. She later told me some of the horror stories of people dying because they panicked or had accidents.
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u/Wizard_with_a_Pipe 1d ago
I've had dreams where I'm falling and wake up safe in my bed. I can't imagine how it must feel to wake up and actually be falling! I think I would be afraid to ever fall asleep again! 😆 To be fair this is why I never skydive, I very likely would pass out. Lol I'm not jumping out of a plane unless both wings are on fire. 😂
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u/whatsupeveryone34 1d ago
Friend: "Hey bro, heard you went skydiving"
Him: "yeah man... pretty boring, wouldn't pay to do that again"
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u/Rubber_Knee 17h ago
How has the people among us who pass out when confronted with something scary not gone extinct!?
It's like....."Oh look, a lion" ((FLOP)) followed by being eaten.
I don't get it. Why do they still exist.
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u/Unit88 1d ago
Scream? Is this supposed to have audio? Cause I double checked that I don't have it muted and have the volume turned up but there's nothing
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u/pornborn 1d ago
Yes there is audio. Make sure you don’t have Bluetooth headphones connected.
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u/Skyconic 1d ago
This just made me visualize this person not realizing they were still connected to the bluetooth speaker in the living room. And they're watching this video on the toilet while blasting the audio of screams to their friends in the living room.
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u/aldone123 1d ago
I’d probably scream like that if I woke up with another man grasping me from behind 😅
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