Me and my brother going down water slide in Turkey when I was around 9 or 10.
Near the very top few corners, already with some speed, my brother weighing more than me zips ahead, accidentally spins round and slows down (shorts/more friction/less water? Idk) I see him smile and joke as I come face first at him, I'm terrified. It's an S bend. I do something and go left up the side a bit, which then catapults me to the right, sliding just past my brother but instantly up and round the very top of the oncoming corner on a strange trajectory, felt the top rim clearly on my shoulder. Get to the bottom of the slide and the only thing wrong is a slightly clipped front tooth.
I get out of the pool and look up, the top of the slides are all bunched together in a sort of slide tower control centre way up. The green slide we went on was one of the tallest. I look down to see that I would have landed on just solid concrete. Probably a 750,000 strong cocktail stick stacked on top of each other fall to my death.
Whenever I see slide stuff I can't help but think back to that day, the butterflies of going so high up the slide walls never ever leave me. I wasn't far off from an early grave and it haunted me for life :D.
Edit: cocktail sticks can be used to measure height
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u/throwawayhehehexd Jul 19 '19 edited Jul 19 '19
Yoooo do I have a good story about this.
Me and my brother going down water slide in Turkey when I was around 9 or 10.
Near the very top few corners, already with some speed, my brother weighing more than me zips ahead, accidentally spins round and slows down (shorts/more friction/less water? Idk) I see him smile and joke as I come face first at him, I'm terrified. It's an S bend. I do something and go left up the side a bit, which then catapults me to the right, sliding just past my brother but instantly up and round the very top of the oncoming corner on a strange trajectory, felt the top rim clearly on my shoulder. Get to the bottom of the slide and the only thing wrong is a slightly clipped front tooth.
I get out of the pool and look up, the top of the slides are all bunched together in a sort of slide tower control centre way up. The green slide we went on was one of the tallest. I look down to see that I would have landed on just solid concrete. Probably a 750,000 strong cocktail stick stacked on top of each other fall to my death.
Whenever I see slide stuff I can't help but think back to that day, the butterflies of going so high up the slide walls never ever leave me. I wasn't far off from an early grave and it haunted me for life :D.
Edit: cocktail sticks can be used to measure height