Silly whuffos.

[karenmeal 0]

Silly whuffos. (Or whuffoes?)

I was hanging out with some friends from school last night and someone's boyfriend came by to hang out. My friend told him that I was "Karen the skydiver". Apparently her boyfriend has done one tandem at a DZ that I used to work at. So I started asking him the usual stuff about his skydiving experience... but then he started to lecture me on how unsafe my current DZ is!

Apparently he found out from a very reliable friend of his (who has done 2 tandems) that someone had a cutaway once at my DZ. (Gasp. I had no idea.) He feels that the DZ that he did his tandem at (that I used to work at) is much safer and he can't believe that I will actually jump at my current DZ.

Anyways, I tried to explain a few things to him (and I really tried hard to be nice) but he obviously was of the mindset that I was brainwashed or something and my opinion was completely invalid. (Flipping ticked me off.) At the end of the conversation he told his girlfriend that he didn't want her going to skydive at my current DZ because it was unsafe.

Argh. Silly Whuffo. I hate know-it-alls who can't realize when they are clueless.

"Life is a temporary victory over the causes which induce death." - Sylvester Graham

[popsjumper 2]

Did you say, "I'm sorry. I mistook you for somebody who knows something about skydiving."...???

My reality and yours are quite different.
I think we're all Bozos on this bus.
Falcon5232, SCS8170, SCSA353, POPS9398, DS239

[swedishcelt 0]

I agree that there are a lot of misconceptions but even as a whuffo I would never have presumed to know something about a place or person based on just one little fact or incident. He sounds a little more like a silly man than anything. He probably has many bias' and stereotypes in general about quite a few things.

[Andy9o8 2]

We've probably all been in similar situations with know-it-all whuffos. I used to try to be polite. Occasionally I can't resist saying, "Look, I mean no offense, but you really don't know what the hell you're talking about." I even found myself saying that to my own sister-in-law when she said, "the really dangerous thing about skydiving is that you have no idea who's packed your parachute." So, I let her have it. Mortifies my wife in social situations, but...what the hell.

[Andy_Copland 0]

I dont know if its because i've had a couple but that just made a fucking funny image in my mind

1338

People aint made of nothin' but water and shit.

Until morale improves, the beatings will continue.

[stitch 0]

With just over 150 jumps theres still alot I don't know.But,the way I see it unless somebody does a
tandem then continues on to AFF,
they're just a passenger not a skydiver.Hence,where
do they get off trying to tell a licensed jumper
anything.I would have told him to go do a couple of levels of AFF,then maybe he would have an opinion.

"No cookies for you"- GFD
"I don't think I like the sound of that" ~ MB65
Don't be a "Racer Hater"

[NlghtJumper 0]

The dumbest wuffo I had to deal with, was a friend of mine who thinks he knows everything, and feels the need to debate with everyone about what he thinks he knows. He has never done a single jump [tandem, sl, aff ~ NOTHING]. Yet he felt the need to debate with me on the rate of fall of objects in free fall. He felt that if one were to drop a set of keys while in free fall, it would be easy to get them back. "It would be a difference of like 98 mph vs. 99 mph."

GOD I HATE KNOW-IT-ALLS WHO KNOW NOTHING!

A man will do anything for the right woman,
and when that woman destroys him,
that man will become a hunk of meat with the common sense of a rodeo clown! ~ Christopher Titus

[NWFlyer 2]

But Karen, you're a GIRL! What could you possibly know about skydiving?

"There is only one basic human right, the right to do as you damn well please. And with it comes the only basic human duty, the duty to take the consequences." -P.J. O'Rourke

[thegreekone 0]

maybe he was, uh, "compensating", ya know?

[jumpinfarmer 0]

I've had the same argument with a few friends before. They can't understand why it would be hard to do anythig in freefall since everyone falls at the same speed right

[bob.dino 1]

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But Karen, you're a GIRL! What could you possibly know about skydiving?

And she shouldn't be worrying her pretty little head trying to argue with a man.

[grue 1]

If it makes you feel any better, I had some guy try to convince me that he had "about ten skyjumps", the first of which was a tandem into a stadium.... when asked what the parachute looked like, he said it was "all black, and round. The guy I jumped with used it in the Special Forces"

cavete terrae.

[turtlespeed 226]

So - question - does he believe that you actually worked there?
I mean - he probably doesn't know that women can legally work in this country.

I'm not usually into the whole 3-way thing, but you got me a little excited with that. - Skymama
BTR #1 / OTB^5 Official #2 / Hellfish #408 / VSCR #108/Tortuga/Orfun

[Rdy2skydive 0]

I work with a woman who is a bit of a nervous type who had barely heard of skydiving before she met me. One day she noticed the 4-way pictures on my desk and asked if it was hard to hold onto each other all the time. I told her that we let go to change positions,and we don't always all "hold on" during the exits. I further explained sometimes we just break apart and spend the rest of the skydive trying to get back together. She started to cry and told me that I should stop doing that because it's "way too dangerous" when you're not holding onto each other. She also threatened to call my mother and tell her to make me stop jumping.

[yamtx73 0]

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She started to cry and told me that I should stop doing that because it's "way too dangerous" when you're not holding onto each other. She also threatened to call my mother and tell her to make me stop jumping.

It's way to dangerous when you're not holding onto each other? Why? Are you going to fall or something??

The only naturals in this sport shit thru feathers...

[Balls 0]

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Are you going to fall or something??

I've had lots of friends ask me if I can take them on tandems. One even asked if I'd teach him how to "Skysurf."

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....so that his place shall never be with those cold and timid souls who knew neither victory nor defeat."

[Balls 0]

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Are you going to fall or something??

I've had lots of friends ask me if I can take them on tandems. One even asked if I'd teach him how to "Skysurf."

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....so that his place shall never be with those cold and timid souls who knew neither victory nor defeat."

[skydemon2 0]

you gotta have a lotta balls to post the samething twice!!

Beauty is only skin deep, but ugly goes clean to the bone!

I like to start my day off with a little Ray of Soulshine™!!

[kimemerson 7]

Back when I had about 700 jumps an acquaintence pulled me aside at a mutual friend's house and said, "We're your friends. We love you. We want you to stop this suicide trip you're on..." I reminded him he wasn't really a friend, he didn't actually love me, and that seven hundred goddamn suicide failures is a tad much. In fact, I'm still a failure at it.

[ACMESkydiver 0]

Karen, Karen, Karen.... Come on now. All you had to say is "My 1300 jumps to your one says you have no clue what you're talking about."

~Jaye
Do not believe that possibly you can escape the reward of your action.

[DeNReN 0]

Failed 700.....errrr 4000 times......

I would love to commit suicide with you...please show me how to fail
Typical stories from me......1st jump...alone.....the instructor thought they were good enough to jump alone from alt........smile and nod