So perfect...

Love it!  I should stick one of those on my BMW for the next track day.

Since I have a mild connection to doing questionable anti gravity things way back in the past , I'll say:.... " Hold my beer and watch this "

So probably 40 years ago, my buddy Nevitt, my brother John, Kathy and I are driving over the dam at Lake Nacimiento.

John yells: "Pull over!" so I oblige. In a flash he's over the fence, disappears over the spillway wall. A moment later we watch as he run across the dry concrete to the center of the 30' wide spillway where the water is running and a thick coating of moss is growing.

In a flash he's sitting down in the center of this slimy, slippery stuff, flying down the almost vertical spillway at a high rate of speed. We can't believe it when a couple seconds later, he pushes up and stands to his feet, speeding down the spillway to finally splash into the deep pool at the bottom of the dam.

After he hiked back up, he yelled at me to join him, and of course I did.

Dumb kids, but boy we had fun back then!

But did you ever jump off the garage roof wearing a pillow case with a big  S   crayoned onto it ???  :~)

No Alan, I never did that, something tells me you may have?

I did, however, jump repeatedly off the Avila Beach pier until the lifeguards made us stop. One of the lifeguards was named, and I'm not kidding: Mike Mussel.

Then we just drove to the Port San Luis Pier and jumped off it. All except Steve Brown, he did flips off the roof of the Bait Shop which added another 10' to the already scary jump.

Alan Merklin posted:

But did you ever jump off the garage roof wearing a pillow case with a big  S   crayoned onto it ???  :~)

Oh my Alan. My younger brother did that EXACT same thing. As I recall, he managed to push a tooth thru his tongue. Didn't really stick the landing. About 55 years ago.

Thanks for the memory!

Grandma's garden took a beating and as I recall....... I got one too :~)

You guys made me remember this Rear bumper sticker

You guys in SoCal may remember the quarries inland from Huntington Beach. Some one dared me to jump off the 30 ft. cliff edge the into the murky water below. Being a complete idiot, I did it, plunging through the rear window of a barely submerged car.

I'll show you the scars sometime. Lucky I didn't dive.

Youth, glorious, stupid and invigorating and for some, barely survivable.

Will Hesch posted:

In a flash he's sitting down in the center of this slimy, slippery stuff, flying down the almost vertical spillway at a high rate of speed. We can't believe it when a couple seconds later, he pushes up and stands to his feet, speeding down the spillway to finally splash into the deep pool at the bottom of the dam.

That is fricken awesome - and written in a way that you can really visualize it!