Joe was the last person on earth I expected to do that. He just doesn't seem like that kind of person. He is too shy, too small and too rotund (5'2 and 150 pounds last time he told me). Yet this morning, there was a video of Joe Mohican (his last name for SURE) on Fox 5 Morning Edition--TIGHTROPE WALKING across the five mile wide Grand Canyon. Not only did he walk the whole five mile span; he walked it in five minutes without quaking ONCE. An apple I was eating literally dropped out of my mouth. I just stared at the TV screen, rubbing my eyes out with disbelief. Just last week, I was at his house for one of his random parties in downton Buckhead. He and I walked out to the balcony to get some fresh air. Slowly, we chatted about the end of our high school lives and what we were going to do next in our life. As I looked out to the street, 100 feet below us, Joe took one look and dashed back inside. He later told me that he was scared of heights. It doesn't make sense. How did he go from downtown Atlanta to the Grand Canyon? I tell you NO ONE could have forgotten the face of the shy, pale seventeen year old. It seems to good to be true, and I feel that Joe might have done something inhuman to accomplish this Herculean task. Now I have a question for my readers: How can a human being be scared of a height of 100 feet one week, and then tightrope walk across a five mile wide, one mile deep chasm a WEEK LATER? How is it POSSIBLE?
Interesting. I might hike around the Grand Canyon but I wouldn't tightrope walk it!
ReplyDeleteI like your decription of Joe as being too shy, too small and too rotound, and I can visualize you saying this. In addition, I wasn't expecting someone to write about Joe tightrope walking across the Grand Canyon. I like it.
ReplyDeleteIt's definitely an interesting concept... I mean, how often do you tightrope in general really? There's a lot of abnormalities to this story and it was simple and enjoyable. Nice.
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