My Dad put up two tire swings for my nieces in his backyard. One painted pink and the other purple, naturally.<\/p>\n
My brother-in-law suggested that I give them a try and that they’ll support my weight.<\/p>\n
Now, I’m of the opinion that youth is wasted on the young and if given the chance to “play”, I’ll take it. So, I clambered on the pink one – it seems to be on a sturdier branch – got a couple good swings and fell off. It wasn’t far and I wasn’t hurt, and not even really embarrassed.<\/p>\n
I lay on the ground, laughing for a moment, then got back up and climbed back on. This time, I got settled in a little better and had what I hoped was a better grip. My brother-in-law started to push me a few times and then I got to spinning. The rope hurt my hand and I started to lose my balance. Spinning around wildly, I finally managed to get out that I wanted to stop and when I did, I gratefully fell to the ground in a heap.<\/p>\n
I lay there for a moment – stunned – then stood up and stumbled around, still dizzy. I didn’t throw up, but it was a near thing for a few minutes.<\/p>\n
I shook it off and went about my way.<\/p>\n
A little later, my niece commented that the pink tire swing was a lot<\/em> lower than it used to be.<\/p>\n Thanks.<\/p>\n So, I survived the tire swing but it clearly won. I think I might have done better if the tire had been bigger and the rope a little easier to grip, but I may just be fooling myself.<\/p>\n Clearly, still not a grown-up and in need of adult supervision.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":" My Dad put up two tire swings for my nieces in his backyard. One painted pink and the other purple, naturally. My brother-in-law suggested that I give them a try and that they’ll support my weight. Now, I’m of the opinion that youth is wasted on the young and if given the chance to “play”, […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_exactmetrics_skip_tracking":false,"_exactmetrics_sitenote_active":false,"_exactmetrics_sitenote_note":"","_exactmetrics_sitenote_category":0,"_bluesky_dont_syndicate":"","_bluesky_syndication_accounts":"","_bluesky_syndication_text":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-2065","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized"],"amp_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/thunderofwade.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2065","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/thunderofwade.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/thunderofwade.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/thunderofwade.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/thunderofwade.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=2065"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/thunderofwade.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2065\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":2066,"href":"https:\/\/thunderofwade.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2065\/revisions\/2066"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/thunderofwade.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=2065"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/thunderofwade.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=2065"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/thunderofwade.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=2065"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}