Posted on 06/02/2022 2:39:02 PM PDT by BenLurkin
Great tale, thank you.
I know this is a sad story, so perhaps I could have left it out, but...I just thought of that experience from years ago yesterday, and I had resolved to write it down before my brain starts to erase things.
“My guess is, they wanted to be sure someone didn’t get about 100 feet up and decide they wanted out.”
I bet that’s the case.
Yes. That’s who is to blame.
so much for philosophy...
I loved para sailing when your boatguy knew what he was doing.
The first time that I did it was in Maui. My wife did the helicopter ride around in the volcano crater. I had done helicopter rides in the Navy and in Marin county to SFO. So a helicopter ride was not a priority for me. So I did para sailing and it was a natural for me and really enjoyable.
A few months later, the company I worked for had a meeting in Miami. Those of us who got there early had our choice of para sailing or boat rides. I took the parasailing and the boat driver, and I did a lot of fly bys of the hotel and out people on the beach. Before the week was over, the boat driver and I made runs to get people wanting to para sail.
Flash forward a few years and my wife and I are on vacation at a time share in Mexico on the Pacific. The timeshare next to ours had some cross benefits and one was para sailing.
So, I went down to talk to the boat driver for para sailing.
He and I didn’t connect. So I said No!.
A few hours later this boat driver pulled a female guest into the wall of the time share, and she was killed on the impact.
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