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Look Before You Leap!

2011 Reader Submission
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My dad was an exchange student in Switzerland during his high school years. A few years back, my family of six went to Europe and bike toured there. We stopped by his Swiss parents' house in France for a few days, and each night, it was the job of the four kids to venture about 500 feet from the house to go water the garden.

This garden was particularly large, and it was surrounded by a rock wall about a foot and a half high. Toward the front of the garden was a taller section of the wall- about three feet high. Behind this was a rectangular pool which supposedly was very deep and which provided water for the garden. To reach it, one had to go down the stairs leading into it and fill the watering can from there.

It was our last night there and the parental units decided that we should race to the garden because we had a little too much energy.

As we ran, my older brother pulled out in front and made for the higher wall. He jumped up onto it and realized that there was a large patch of water right beneath him. He was close enough to the side that he could skitter off and land in the garden first. My younger sister, who is faster than me, saw his blunder and jumped over the low wall in second place. I was very close behind her and, unfortunately, did not see my older brother's mistake and jumped onto the high wall, saw the well, an jumped back down and ran around over the low wall.

My little brother was so far behind that he hadn't seen what had happened with the three of us. He jumped onto the high wall, didn't see the well, and leaped to the other side. He landed, but ended up toppling backwards into the water! Thankfully there were stairs out of the well and he had not hit his head.

As the parental units came around the corner with the laundry, they saw all of us laughing our heads off and wringing out my little brother's clothes. The funny thing was, before we left, they had strictly specified, "Don't fall into the well."

All my brother said was, "Oops."

Looking back, I guess we now all understand the importance of the saying, "Look Before You Leap."

Submitted on 06/12/2011

Submitted by: Dragon
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>> Moderator Scores <<

Bruce said:
Maybe Toss: Lacks Excellence
Thanks for an amusing story, but to me it sounds like just a case of a bunch of kids playing around like most do, and not necessarily a case of blatant stupidity. Lets see what the other moderators have to say though...


Candi said:
Definitely Toss: Lacks Excellence
Very funny, but this is just goofing around, not Darwin behviour. There's also the age to consider.


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