"And wow! Hey! Whatโs this thing suddenly coming towards me very fast? Very very fast. So big and flat and round, it needs a big wide sounding name like โฆ ow โฆ ound โฆ round โฆ ground! Thatโs it! Thatโs a good name โ ground! I wonder if it will be friends with me?" (โ this and the ending quote by Douglas Adams, The Hitchhiker's Guide to the Galaxy) I have less than a half a dozen Cutaways. But they happen. In nearly 17 years of skydiving this was the first time due to not being able to pull my main PC (pilotchute).ย Followed the Procedure, landed safe and sound, got all my gear back - awesome! - But received some startling comments: "๐ฉ๐ข๐ฉ๐ข, ๐ ๐ฆ๐น๐ฑ๐ฆ๐ค๐ต๐ฆ๐ฅ ๐บ๐ฐ๐ถ ๐ค๐ฐ๐ถ๐ญ๐ฅ ๐ฑ๐ถ๐ญ๐ญ ๐ญ๐ฐ๐ธ๐ฆ๐ณ ๐ธ๐ช๐ต๐ฉ ๐บ๐ฐ๐ถ๐ณ ๐ฃ๐ข๐ด๐ฆ๐ซ๐ถ๐ฎ๐ฑ๐ช๐ฏ๐จ ๐ฆ๐น๐ฑ๐ฆ๐ณ๐ช๐ฆ๐ฏ๐ค๐ฆ!", or a weirder "๐ธ๐ฉ๐บ ๐ธ๐ฐ๐ถ๐ญ๐ฅ *๐บ๐ฐ๐ถ* ๐ฆ๐ท๐ฆ๐ณ ๐ฉ๐ข๐ฅ ๐ข ๐ค๐ถ๐ต๐ข๐ธ๐ข๐บ?" Fortunately, I don't feel the need to pull my pants down and show off my private parts to impress anyone (or do whatever is expected to be done for validation and to align with who thinks what in their heads).ย "Curiously enough, the only thing that went through the mind of the bowl of petunias as it fell was Oh no, not again. Many people have speculated that if we knew exactly why the bowl of petunias had thought that we would know a lot more about the nature of the universe than we do now.โ














