Strange Idiosyncrasies

[Casch 0]

Does anyone here have any skydiving related idiosyncrasies? From time to time I find myself donning my altimeter. Infact I am wearing it right now. This might be because I just bought it (my first...) last weekend. Are there anyother strange idiosyncrasies out there?

[darkvapor 0]

you FREAK!

[Casch 0]

I open up...(sniff sniff) and this is what I get... LOL

[darkvapor 0]

Heh, I've done pretty much the same. I sat around my dorm room with my fullface boomerang helmet on for about an hour. I love freaking my whuffo roommate out. I think he's starting to get annoyed with my antics though.. :)

[Snowbird 0]

Does this count?

I'd just bought new gloves, and finished sewing my jumpsuit the same day. I just had to try it all out! And of course, my hubby just had to take a picture...

Women and cats will do as they please, and men and dogs should relax and get used to the idea.
-Robert A. Heinlein

[Casch 0]

I tried to view your pic, but it said that it did not exist...

[Casch 0]

I think it'd be funny as hell to put on a full face, altimeter, birdman suit and rig and just walk down the main road in town for a while hehe

[moodyskydiver 0]

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I just bought it (my first...) last weekend

BEER!!!!

Dont feel too bad about doin weird stuff like that. When I talk to people about jumping I have a habit of looking at my wrist as if I really have an altimeter on. I think everyone has done goofy stuff like that at one time or another.Its just another symptom of the addiction I guess.

"...just an earthbound misfit, I."

[Snowbird 0]

It works for me... try again, I was editing the size for a few minutes.

Women and cats will do as they please, and men and dogs should relax and get used to the idea.
-Robert A. Heinlein

[Casch 0]

LOL Snowbird, I love it! Extreme Web surfing!

[trilete312 0]

Today someone yelled can you hold that DOOR ahh Door, out we go!!!

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Ready, Set, Gooooooo

[jraf 0]

Ever try putting your brain bucket and goggles in a car while driving back from the DZ. Spooks the shit of whuffos

jraf

Me Jungleman! Me have large Babalui.
Muff #3275

[freakshow 0]

My back pack fit a lot like a rig sometimes on my way to class or to my car after class I catch myself doing practice pulls or going through emergency procedures

B.L.

[Magistr8 0]

IU don't have real equipment yet BUT I do things like this with almost everything new. Baseball gloves, new shoes in the house. Now that makes me feel better

"Impossible is a word to be found only in the dictionary of fools." Napoleon Bonaparte

[Lolie 0]

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Ever try putting your brain bucket and goggles in a car while driving back from the DZ. Spooks the shit of whuffos

I had a snowboarder friend who used to put on his goggles and drive with his head out the window.

-Miranda
you shall above all things be glad and young / For if you're young,whatever life you wear
it will become you;and if you are glad / whatever's living will yourself become.

[MadQ 0]

I try to pull every time a batch of fries is ready at McDonald's.

-- MadQ

Eagles may fly, but weasels don't get sucked into jet engines.

[mccordia 74]

Bought a new helmet and goggles last week, just had to try 'em on...

Two days later I finaly got a call from my rigger that my first rig was ready for me to be picked up...
So I did just that and walked around the house like an idiot the whole evening, packing and unpacking my chute for about a dozen times....
You should have seen the look on my neighbours face as she walked past my window and glanced into the kitchen where I was making some thea (with my jumpsuit, altimeter, rig, helmet and goggles on:)

http://www.3dluvr.com/mccordia/fridge/pictures/skydive/mccordia_rig_01.jpg

JC
FlyLikeBrick
I'm an Athlete?

[Void425 0]

That is the perfect time you should have asked if she wanted to come skydiving with you, I would have asked just to see the facial expression.

[Void425 0]

I've managed to bore the hell out of my girlfriend and family already talking about skydiving, and I haven't even made my first jump!!!!

[mccordia 74]

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That is the perfect time you should have asked if she wanted to come skydiving with you, I would have asked just to see the facial expression.

DUDE...obviously you've never seen my neighbour up close...unless skinny, ugly women with hair on their upper-lip are your thing ofcource...then I stand corrected
Next to that, she can't speak or understand crap from the language of the country where she's lived for the past...say..10 years or so...not that there's anything wrong with that ofcource...

JC
FlyLikeBrick
I'm an Athlete?

[Void425 0]

"DUDE...obviously you've never seen my neighbour up close...unless skinny, ugly women with hair on their upper-lip are your thing ofcource...then I stand correctedNext to that, she can't speak or understand crap from the language of the country where she's lived for the past...say..10 years or so...not that there's anything wrong with that ofcource... "
Well..in that case...I'm glad you live next to her and she is scopeing you out rather then me .
But why do looks matter?...You cant see them that well from 12k anyway.

[Snowbird 0]

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into the kitchen where I was making some thea (with my jumpsuit, altimeter, rig, helmet and goggles on

Good to know I'm not the only one

New stuff needs to be broken in. Yeah, that's my story...

Women and cats will do as they please, and men and dogs should relax and get used to the idea.
-Robert A. Heinlein

[Cajones 0]

I think the most common one is yelling "BEER!" anytime the word "First" pops up. I've even found myself casing the television... Sad.

The laws of physics are strictly enforced.

[sunshine 2]

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I think the most common one is yelling "BEER!" anytime the word "First" pops up.

I agree!! Everytime i'm talking to co-workers or other whuffos, i stop myself before i say the F-word.

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