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Originally Posted by ravenne
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*whimper*
ok, true drunken hofbrauhaus story.... I was in Munich for training, none of the people I was with were the "explorer" type, and my comfort level in Germany was about 90%. after MUCH badgering I finally convinced them to come to the "haus" one night for dinner. (hey! these guys would go to McDOnalds given a choice! I was doing REALLY well!) I ended up getting pretty well lubricated, and as we left to find taxis, the fountain looked REALLY good (it was summer). the fountain was basically ground level, ie it had no pool, all of the water drained immediately away. there were some either rectangular or ball shaped concrete *things* that formed the circle of the fountain. I decided that running through that fountain was the best damn idea in the universe right there and then and took off across it. back in the day I wore contacts and had not taken into consideration upwards pointing jets. I squenched my eyes and RAN LIKE HELL!!!! I figured the lack of water would indicate I could open my eyes. well... one of those damn concrete things did so first! I hit that thing at full tilt and it comes up to mid shin level. I went flying through the air, hit the ground on my belly and slid kind of beached porpoise like across the wet pavement, coming to a finish right at the door of a tourbus full of Japanese tourists.
nice round of applause that one was!