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Didn't mean this to go so long. Hope it helps with your adrenalin needs.![]()
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I've had more than one situation pop up where I've had to decide right then and there what had to be done to deal with a bad situation. The level of calm situational awareness actually bothers me. I've been in situations where one of my own kids was bleeding and I had to fix it right then, and I was still dead calm. I felt really guilty after that.
Sure, I did the right thing and remained cool (as did viv, she is solid in those sorts of situations too), but I still felt like "This is my kid, I should be freaked out. I should be feeling SOMETHING." Nope. Just pick her up, get compression on the wound, joke a bit to calm the other kids down, and get things situated to drive her to the hospital (it wasn't serious enough to call an ambulance, just very bloody). Oddly, that incident (fell off the couch facefirst into a lego block, causing a very bloody, but not life-threatening headwound) didn't even cause the adrenaline spike.
I can think of a few physical confrontations I got into while working security/bouncing. Most did not result in too much adrenaline. My adrenals are jaded or something.
When I was a kid I wanted to be the kind of girly girl who like, faints, or something when scary things happen.
Now I'm rather like Anne Shirley (from Anne of Green Gables).
Oh, and I had such a nice photo for you. Well, I guess I'll share it anyway.
This is me and my friend B in her Piper Cub, flying over to Laguna San Ignacio in Baja, Mexico. (I'm in the back seat).
I'm no plane expert, but Cubby was a hell of a machine. At one point, we were flying ten feet off the beach. So very cool! She even let me fly for awhile, (she's an instructor).
Now she owns a Maule (Sp?).
So, when do you feel the adrenalin pumping?
Dude, I'm Canadian, of course I know who Anne Shirley is. Actually, I think the requirements for being a Canadian citizen include:
1. Must have read Anne of Green Gables and watched the CBC miniseries, at least once.
2. Must know what a "double-double" is, when ordering at Tim Horton's
3. Must apologize when someone else steps on your foot.
4. Must be able to build a bong out of any available material.
I can make a pipe out of an apple, a toilet roll tube and some foil.
Although I might have to reflect for a bit about this first, for a minute or so....
It has been a long while....
....at least a long while since I had to build the vessel.......
~LB
And I am a Canadian....but have never (oddly) read Anne of Green Gables.
Careful, don't tell anyone. You can have your citizenship revoked.
No comment on the rest. Different coasts, I think...
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So, when do you feel the adrenalin pumping?
Dude, I'm Canadian, of course I know who Anne Shirley is. Actually, I think the requirements for being a Canadian citizen include:
1. Must have read Anne of Green Gables and watched the CBC miniseries, at least once.
2. Must know what a "double-double" is, when ordering at Tim Horton's
3. Must apologize when someone else steps on your foot.
4. Must be able to build a bong out of any available material.
I've got half of them! (Namely 1 and 3.)
Do I get extra points if I've watched the mini series so many times I can recite it front to back and read the book so many times the cover fell off?
As my eyes began to focus, I realized I'd passed out. I took a minute longer to gather my wits enough to sit up, blink a few times, take a couple of sips of cool water... and then realized my gun was gone! Just as I was about to freak the hell OUT, a pretty little gal leaned down and said, "Don't worry. I've got your gun in my purse. I didn't want anyone stupid to get any bad ideas." I must have looked confused... she said, "Don't you know who I am?" I still must have looked confused (because I was). She smiled shyly and said, "Remember? The Santana concert? You got that guy off of me." Karma can be a bitch... but she can also be a lady.
Stare. Puke. Sit down at the curb and cry. I've never killed a dog before, even with a car. Look at the poor dog and cry some more. Puke again. Wait a day, turn in my security uniform, my badge. Enough of this shit.
And now we know why you're into lifting.![]()
So, when do you feel the adrenalin pumping?
I've got half of them! (Namely 1 and 3.)
Do I get extra points if I've watched the mini series so many times I can recite it front to back and read the book so many times the cover fell off?
Me too. Can I be an honorary Canadian citizen?
They stayed right with me after that, and i walked them the extra half mile to their houses before doubling back to my house.
killer adrenaline crash the moment the door closed behind me.
Still the selfish/evil argument was such that those snap decisions can be made sans information or cogitation. Your internal systems know intimately the consequence for failure to act, and thus do so to avoid those consequences.
It was interesting reading, and I wish I could recall their names.

Well, I don;t meet any of the above requriements, however, I have had sex, some times extremely wild, with a couple of Canadian girls. Does that count towards being an honorary Canadian citizen?![]()
Please tell me this act of heroism got you laid?
Personally, I don't think it has anything to do with good and evil. Some people are rescuers by nature. I think it is as innate as any other quality.
Then there are those split decision moments where, as you said, there's no thinking involved, only reaction. For the small percentage of people who don't react, who wouldn't run to save the child falling down the well, I think they simply do not grasp the situation or a have a clear understanding of the danger.
I've done about half a dozen water rescues in my time. My mindset was always somewhat robotic, "This is what needs to be done and I am the person who can do it."
I've never been sure why, out of all the cars on the road, she chose mine to wave and yell at. It was too dark for her to see inside (people ask me for help all the time, from minor to major, cause I have an approachable face).![]()
She could smell the chocolate. I'm sure that's the reason.
*Smirks*
OK, time for a light one...
So there I was, dressed in nothing but a miniskirt, black lace bra and a climbing harness. I was doubling the lead actress and, in this particular scene, she was getting royally boinked on a fourth floor balcony. Her character was a thrill seeker and that's how she ended up sitting on the balcony railing, as her bad boy lover groped and fondled and did all manner of nasty things to her.
Why did she need a double? Well, as she starts to peak, the character is supposed to lift her arms high in the air and let her upper body fall backwards until she is hanging upside down.
My harness was clipped to a cable which was secured to the deck. All in all, it was a fairly easy gag. Well, except for the canoodling-with-a-stranger bit.
The lead actor introduces himself to me, charming fellow. He then says, "Um, I hope you don't mind, but during this scene I'm supposed to be quite aggressive so I'll probably be grabbing your breasts and biting your nipples and that sort of thing." Hm, what does one say to that?
Action is called and off we go. I concentrate on my action and try to ignore the handsome stranger who is playing nipple hockey and faux-fucking me with vigour. (A very weird sensation, I assure you). Soon, I am dangling four stories over the cement.
It gets more interesting.
We were filming in one of the residences of a local university. It was summer but there were still a fair number of students on campus, particularly since this was a Friday evening and they were all en route to the pub(s). The cameras and crew were shooting from inside the apartment so no one down below could see them. All they could see was my mostly naked body, hanging off the balcony, getting good and pounded.
Needless to say, a cheering section soon formed and loud applause followed our pseudo orgasm.
The End.
Dirty secret? I kind of liked it.