gulaz 1 #1 August 8, 2003 Trying to make a big list, for fun. I thought this up, when I found a new ringer for my cellphone... it plays Sublime, dropzone music Quote Share this post Link to post Share on other sites pop 0 #2 August 8, 2003 QuoteTrying to make a big list, for fun. I thought this up, when I found a new ringer for my cellphone... it plays Sublime, dropzone music You know you are a skydiver when you think an ideal first date would be a SKYDIVE!!!7 ounce wonders, music and dogs that are not into beer Quote Share this post Link to post Share on other sites kingbunky 3 #3 August 8, 2003 you know you're a skydiver when... you're in a store, reach for your wallet with your right hand, and your left automatically comes up to your forehead... right tot? "Hang on a sec, the young'uns are throwin' beer cans at a golf cart." MB4252 TDS699 killing threads since 2001 Quote Share this post Link to post Share on other sites WILDBILLAQR 0 #4 August 8, 2003 When someones pager goes off and you reach for your hacky!---------------------------------------------- "Thats not smoke, thats BUCKEYE!!" AQR#3,CWR#49 Quote Share this post Link to post Share on other sites pop 0 #5 August 8, 2003 Quoteyou know you're a skydiver when... you're in a store, reach for your wallet with your right hand, and your left automatically comes up to your forehead... right tot? ...you're in a store, reach for your wallet and try to pay with your jump tickets7 ounce wonders, music and dogs that are not into beer Quote Share this post Link to post Share on other sites Lizard 0 #6 August 8, 2003 You know your a skydiver when the UPS man can't believe that little box cost so much. Quote Share this post Link to post Share on other sites BlueEyedMonster 0 #7 August 8, 2003 when... you spend 95% of your time at work PW'ing on dropzone.com. 4% Trying to figure out how to get your BASE jumper friends on the roof without using my own access card. and 1% working. Quote Share this post Link to post Share on other sites hookitt 1 #8 August 8, 2003 ... you feel like taking a trip to Minneapolis and mugging someone that works with blue for their access card.My grammar sometimes resembles that of magnetic refrigerator poetry... Ghetto Quote Share this post Link to post Share on other sites BlueEyedMonster 0 #9 August 8, 2003 Quote... you feel like taking a trip to Minneapolis and mugging someone that works with blue for their access card. New security.... have to swipe it 4 times to get on a floor after hours. 2 times during hours. Once in front of the security guards, hope the face in the computer matches yours. But, I have gone up to my floor right past the guards with my rig on my shoulder :) So I know that should not be a problem. Quote Share this post Link to post Share on other sites turtlespeed 221 #10 August 8, 2003 Someone hands you a SCUBA depth gauage and you get the willies.I'm not usually into the whole 3-way thing, but you got me a little excited with that. - Skymama BTR #1 / OTB^5 Official #2 / Hellfish #408 / VSCR #108/Tortuga/Orfun Quote Share this post Link to post Share on other sites SkydiveNFlorida 0 #11 August 8, 2003 You cancel your plane tickets and trip to see the family, and end up taking a road trip to the next nearest DZ. You budget the month by cutting out food and drinks from your diet, supplementing in ice chips, grain alcohol, and jump tickets. You begin to care about your beacon score because good credit translates into $$ for gear. You don't even mention your weekend of jumping, and the first thing your friends ask was how skydiving went that weekend. Angela. Quote Share this post Link to post Share on other sites jtval 0 #12 August 8, 2003 when you can smell altitude on your clothes (this is easier when you jump with someone like aggiedave......but that aint altitude LOL) you know youre a skydiver when you have a direct deposit account at your dzMy photos My Videos Quote Share this post Link to post Share on other sites PilotMike 0 #13 August 9, 2003 when you yell "DOOR!!" before leaving a restaurant -------- Benefitting from the 'free capture of verticality.' Quote Share this post Link to post Share on other sites SkydiverRick 0 #14 August 9, 2003 You know you're a skydiver when...... You don't own any clothing that you didn't get at a boogie You look at your VCR and think, "Hmm, that's gotta be worth a few jumps Your rig costs more than your trailer Your work clothes have grippers never pull low......unless you are Quote Share this post Link to post Share on other sites TitaniumLegs 8 #15 August 9, 2003 ... when you yell "CUT!" to get the taxi/bus driver to stop. ... you don't own any clothes you didn't get at a boogie/DZ. ... when going over a bridge and your whuffo friends say "Look how high it is!" and you say "Look how LOW it is!" ... your friends say "Look at all the clouds." and you say "Look at all the HOLES!" ... you no longer maintain any meaningful contact with friends who don't skydive. ... you drive a $500 car so you can afford a $5000 rig (or 2 or 3) and $2500 camera/helmet system. (OK, I stole some of these from an article in Skydiving or Canpara from a few years back.) (>o|-< If you don't believe me, ask me. Quote Share this post Link to post Share on other sites Vertifly 0 #16 August 9, 2003 ...you're retirement plan involves trekking most of the dropzones across one continent. ----------------------------------------------------- Quote Share this post Link to post Share on other sites turtlespeed 221 #17 August 9, 2003 You go to a thing called a boogie and hope that they don't try to put you to work.I'm not usually into the whole 3-way thing, but you got me a little excited with that. - Skymama BTR #1 / OTB^5 Official #2 / Hellfish #408 / VSCR #108/Tortuga/Orfun Quote Share this post Link to post Share on other sites freeflycracker 0 #18 August 9, 2003 When you check your watch and it says 3:15 you wave off and rip your belt out of your pants Quote Share this post Link to post Share on other sites airann 1 #19 August 9, 2003 These are the best I have read - [url "http://crw.boxofclue.com/yaknow.html"]You know when...[url] Warning - seriously funny. ~AirAnn~ Quote Share this post Link to post Share on other sites Jayruss 0 #20 August 9, 2003 when you yell "DOOR" at a red light __________________________________________________ "Beware how you take away hope from another human being." -Oliver Wendell Holmes Quote Share this post Link to post Share on other sites mouth 0 #21 August 9, 2003 When you drunk dial every skydiver you have phone numbers for and start over on the list! Send numbers -- Hot Mama At least you know where you stand even if it is in a pile of shit. Quote Share this post Link to post Share on other sites yardhippie 0 #22 August 9, 2003 you got to the WFFC even though you have no money and your ankle is broken... surviving one beer and pain killers ... and still make 3 jumps... Goddam dirty hippies piss me off! ~GFD "What do I get for closing your rig?" ~ me "Anything you want." ~ female skydiver Mohoso Rodriguez #865 Quote Share this post Link to post Share on other sites PilotMike 0 #23 August 9, 2003 From the clicky... "You find yourself mentally telling the pilot when to flare while landing on a commercial flight." I actually did that today! I thought it was because I'm a pilot. I guess indirectly it's because I'm a skydiver because I didn't start flying until after I started jumping. -------- Benefitting from the 'free capture of verticality.' Quote Share this post Link to post Share on other sites AggieDave 6 #24 August 9, 2003 You back in CS now?--"When I die, may I be surrounded by scattered chrome and burning gasoline." Quote Share this post Link to post Share on other sites SkyAnt 0 #25 August 9, 2003 ... you drive a $500 car so you can afford a $5000 rig -------------------------------------------------------- Thats me -------------------------------------------------------- You reach the front of the que at the Cinema and ask the Box Office if the SkyVan is operating today. "All that is necessary for the triumph of evil is that good men do nothing." Edmund Burke (1729-1797) Quote Share this post Link to post Share on other sites Prev 1 2 Next Page 1 of 2 Join the conversation You can post now and register later. If you have an account, sign in now to post with your account. Note: Your post will require moderator approval before it will be visible. Reply to this topic... × Pasted as rich text. 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pop 0 #2 August 8, 2003 QuoteTrying to make a big list, for fun. I thought this up, when I found a new ringer for my cellphone... it plays Sublime, dropzone music You know you are a skydiver when you think an ideal first date would be a SKYDIVE!!!7 ounce wonders, music and dogs that are not into beer Quote Share this post Link to post Share on other sites
kingbunky 3 #3 August 8, 2003 you know you're a skydiver when... you're in a store, reach for your wallet with your right hand, and your left automatically comes up to your forehead... right tot? "Hang on a sec, the young'uns are throwin' beer cans at a golf cart." MB4252 TDS699 killing threads since 2001 Quote Share this post Link to post Share on other sites
WILDBILLAQR 0 #4 August 8, 2003 When someones pager goes off and you reach for your hacky!---------------------------------------------- "Thats not smoke, thats BUCKEYE!!" AQR#3,CWR#49 Quote Share this post Link to post Share on other sites
pop 0 #5 August 8, 2003 Quoteyou know you're a skydiver when... you're in a store, reach for your wallet with your right hand, and your left automatically comes up to your forehead... right tot? ...you're in a store, reach for your wallet and try to pay with your jump tickets7 ounce wonders, music and dogs that are not into beer Quote Share this post Link to post Share on other sites
Lizard 0 #6 August 8, 2003 You know your a skydiver when the UPS man can't believe that little box cost so much. Quote Share this post Link to post Share on other sites
BlueEyedMonster 0 #7 August 8, 2003 when... you spend 95% of your time at work PW'ing on dropzone.com. 4% Trying to figure out how to get your BASE jumper friends on the roof without using my own access card. and 1% working. Quote Share this post Link to post Share on other sites
hookitt 1 #8 August 8, 2003 ... you feel like taking a trip to Minneapolis and mugging someone that works with blue for their access card.My grammar sometimes resembles that of magnetic refrigerator poetry... Ghetto Quote Share this post Link to post Share on other sites
BlueEyedMonster 0 #9 August 8, 2003 Quote... you feel like taking a trip to Minneapolis and mugging someone that works with blue for their access card. New security.... have to swipe it 4 times to get on a floor after hours. 2 times during hours. Once in front of the security guards, hope the face in the computer matches yours. But, I have gone up to my floor right past the guards with my rig on my shoulder :) So I know that should not be a problem. Quote Share this post Link to post Share on other sites
turtlespeed 221 #10 August 8, 2003 Someone hands you a SCUBA depth gauage and you get the willies.I'm not usually into the whole 3-way thing, but you got me a little excited with that. - Skymama BTR #1 / OTB^5 Official #2 / Hellfish #408 / VSCR #108/Tortuga/Orfun Quote Share this post Link to post Share on other sites
SkydiveNFlorida 0 #11 August 8, 2003 You cancel your plane tickets and trip to see the family, and end up taking a road trip to the next nearest DZ. You budget the month by cutting out food and drinks from your diet, supplementing in ice chips, grain alcohol, and jump tickets. You begin to care about your beacon score because good credit translates into $$ for gear. You don't even mention your weekend of jumping, and the first thing your friends ask was how skydiving went that weekend. Angela. Quote Share this post Link to post Share on other sites
jtval 0 #12 August 8, 2003 when you can smell altitude on your clothes (this is easier when you jump with someone like aggiedave......but that aint altitude LOL) you know youre a skydiver when you have a direct deposit account at your dzMy photos My Videos Quote Share this post Link to post Share on other sites
PilotMike 0 #13 August 9, 2003 when you yell "DOOR!!" before leaving a restaurant -------- Benefitting from the 'free capture of verticality.' Quote Share this post Link to post Share on other sites
SkydiverRick 0 #14 August 9, 2003 You know you're a skydiver when...... You don't own any clothing that you didn't get at a boogie You look at your VCR and think, "Hmm, that's gotta be worth a few jumps Your rig costs more than your trailer Your work clothes have grippers never pull low......unless you are Quote Share this post Link to post Share on other sites
TitaniumLegs 8 #15 August 9, 2003 ... when you yell "CUT!" to get the taxi/bus driver to stop. ... you don't own any clothes you didn't get at a boogie/DZ. ... when going over a bridge and your whuffo friends say "Look how high it is!" and you say "Look how LOW it is!" ... your friends say "Look at all the clouds." and you say "Look at all the HOLES!" ... you no longer maintain any meaningful contact with friends who don't skydive. ... you drive a $500 car so you can afford a $5000 rig (or 2 or 3) and $2500 camera/helmet system. (OK, I stole some of these from an article in Skydiving or Canpara from a few years back.) (>o|-< If you don't believe me, ask me. Quote Share this post Link to post Share on other sites
Vertifly 0 #16 August 9, 2003 ...you're retirement plan involves trekking most of the dropzones across one continent. ----------------------------------------------------- Quote Share this post Link to post Share on other sites
turtlespeed 221 #17 August 9, 2003 You go to a thing called a boogie and hope that they don't try to put you to work.I'm not usually into the whole 3-way thing, but you got me a little excited with that. - Skymama BTR #1 / OTB^5 Official #2 / Hellfish #408 / VSCR #108/Tortuga/Orfun Quote Share this post Link to post Share on other sites
freeflycracker 0 #18 August 9, 2003 When you check your watch and it says 3:15 you wave off and rip your belt out of your pants Quote Share this post Link to post Share on other sites
airann 1 #19 August 9, 2003 These are the best I have read - [url "http://crw.boxofclue.com/yaknow.html"]You know when...[url] Warning - seriously funny. ~AirAnn~ Quote Share this post Link to post Share on other sites
Jayruss 0 #20 August 9, 2003 when you yell "DOOR" at a red light __________________________________________________ "Beware how you take away hope from another human being." -Oliver Wendell Holmes Quote Share this post Link to post Share on other sites
mouth 0 #21 August 9, 2003 When you drunk dial every skydiver you have phone numbers for and start over on the list! Send numbers -- Hot Mama At least you know where you stand even if it is in a pile of shit. Quote Share this post Link to post Share on other sites
yardhippie 0 #22 August 9, 2003 you got to the WFFC even though you have no money and your ankle is broken... surviving one beer and pain killers ... and still make 3 jumps... Goddam dirty hippies piss me off! ~GFD "What do I get for closing your rig?" ~ me "Anything you want." ~ female skydiver Mohoso Rodriguez #865 Quote Share this post Link to post Share on other sites
PilotMike 0 #23 August 9, 2003 From the clicky... "You find yourself mentally telling the pilot when to flare while landing on a commercial flight." I actually did that today! I thought it was because I'm a pilot. I guess indirectly it's because I'm a skydiver because I didn't start flying until after I started jumping. -------- Benefitting from the 'free capture of verticality.' Quote Share this post Link to post Share on other sites
AggieDave 6 #24 August 9, 2003 You back in CS now?--"When I die, may I be surrounded by scattered chrome and burning gasoline." Quote Share this post Link to post Share on other sites
SkyAnt 0 #25 August 9, 2003 ... you drive a $500 car so you can afford a $5000 rig -------------------------------------------------------- Thats me -------------------------------------------------------- You reach the front of the que at the Cinema and ask the Box Office if the SkyVan is operating today. "All that is necessary for the triumph of evil is that good men do nothing." Edmund Burke (1729-1797) Quote Share this post Link to post Share on other sites
