2754. Parachute jump © Bruce Goodman 14 June 2023

I tried to persuade him but he was going to do it anyway. Clyde was pig-headed. Well he wouldn’t be pig-headed for much longer. You don’t jump out of a plane without a parachute and survive. The instructor had said “Don’t ever jump out of the plane without your parachute.” He was joking of course. I never expected Clyde to be so contrary. He was standing at the open plane door. “I’m doing it,” he said. “Clyde don’t! Please don’t. It’s suicide.” “No one is going to tell me what to do,” said Clyde. The guy is a simpleton. He jumped. I let out a yelp. I didn’t think he’d do it. But he’d gone and done it without a parachute. “It’ll be a different story once we take off and are in the air,” I said. Contact Author Back to Index Next Story Previous Story