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What Is The One Thing I would Not Do, and Why?

Day #6 Challnge

Wire Editor Newman
2 min readSep 8, 2022

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First, I would like to thank Nancy Blackman for her 30-Day Challenge. Today is Day 6 of her challenge in Refresh the Soul. You, the reader, should go there and try it for yourself if you have not already.

What Is One Thing You Will Never Do, and Why?

This is actually a very easy question for me to answer.

One thing I will never do.

I will never jump out of a perfectly good operating airplane for any reason. Ever. Of course, I am referring to parachuting. That is not a sport for me. I appreciate and understand, or at least I try to understand why people parachute. But there is no way this is a sport for Albert.

Reason #1, Actually the only reason

My Brother tried parachuting in college. With very little training, he was up, up, and away in a smaller airplane. Minutes later, and no telling how high in the sky he was, he was standing on the outside edge of a plane, with one hand on the wing, and yelling, “Nooooo,” as he jumped.

My Uncle, who just so happened to be playing a round of golf at the local golf course, just happened to find my…

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Wire Editor Newman
Wire Editor Newman

Written by Wire Editor Newman

Writer of, Humor, Poetry, Life, Love, Fiction, Automobiles and the Blues. / Writing in Medium.com / https://medium.com/refresh-the-soul

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