Shoe by Gary Brookins and Susie MacNelly for September 22, 2023

I trying to imagine a bird being afraid of heights

’Cause if you are not careful, you get pinched…..

I went once, and once was enough. On the other hand, it has given me a story to tell strangers in bars. So here’s what happened…

You wouldn’t like using the head, (restroom), onboard by my destroyer or frigate. Even when on the outskirts of a typhoon or a winter crossing of the Atlantic, you still have to go. Even when the deck is rolling a good 15º to 25º and the ship is pitching up and down 20 to 30 feet. You still got to sit on something.

People asked me what my most thrilling adventure trip was last year … heli-skiing, skydiving, or camping…

Hands down camping. It was so in tents.

There’s a new extreme sport – “BBQ Skydiving”.

The steaks have never been higher.

You don’t need a parachute to go skydiving

You need a parachute to go skydiving twice.

Ya know the hardest thing about skydiving?

The ground.

Did you hear about the rooster that was afraid to go skydiving?

I guess you can say he was too chicken to do it.

Wouldn´t that just be a normal day for birds?

Skydiving, when you jump out of a perfectly good airplane to go splat unless you do something about it.

What’s the allure to skydiving? Loon skydives to make deliveries of the paper, and, by the way, Cosmo and Shoe fly to work and back.

If the toilet seat moves, it is time to tighten the bolts.

Only bird poo and fools fall from the sky, or so I’ve been told.

Always worry when the pilot plans on jumping out of the plane.

You better be scared! I’ve had one go, fortunately I was much younger so not badly hurt, but what a mess…(sorry, no TMI)