Here's another one in a little more complete form.
Whiplash, rag dolls & rubber tube
Give up if you are expecting Metallica style punk music (saying that could perhaps get me killed in Chennai amidst certain company), forget it if you think we were sewing dolls, if the first thing that came to your mind was crash test dummies you’d be close.
Bodi’s 4.3 litre power boat, fitted with performance propellers lurches with the front end ready to take off as the engine roars when the throttle is unleashed. It’s hard to find footing as the infernal tub skims across the supposedly placid lake water, although the tiny 3500 acre Columbus lake can’t fool FOBs like the great lakes, “look that’s the atlantic” “wow” says the FOB standing in Chicago staring at Lake ……. Er Superior is it. (well his geography will have to be horribly bad!).
Begin tubing. Although the choppy waters of the small water body only permitted 40mph, it felt like you were reaching the speed of light (please note the author is given to slight exaggeration, although almost always justified), whether it was speed of light or not, it certainly felt like the world would end while clinging on to dear life (a big round rubber tube which is being dragged by the f-16 fighter jet). (the process of tubing is where a person sits/clings on a giant rubber tube which is tied to the end of the boat)
In this case the floating pile of lump could maneuver like the Russian Migs and turn to make the Ses, while the good ol centrifugal force did the rest to throw you (actually the tube) out of orbit, you were sitting on the tube with images of formula side car racers countering the Newtonian force by shifting the body weight, but life has a way of shattering such heroic images to render you to the level of a common jackass.
As soon as your fingers get a little tired, a hard turn, gravity sucks, a momentary lapse in concentration & you get smacked in the face like being kicked by an ass, water, sky, water, oh crap water inside the nose, what just happened, why am I hurting, oh yeah I fell off.
It’s fun (the part where you are successfully hanging on to the tube & drifting), “I can continue” “hell yeah”, “what doesn’t kill you will only make you stronger” the wise Chinese saying comes to mind, but the wiser saying “be careful what you wish for, for it might just come true” escaped my simple mind, which was overflowing with the Juice of life Adrenalin.