05-20-2004, 05:18 PM
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This is great! One of the things I miss about school is the game of dodgeball. It was like playing paintball or tag on a more intense level. I don't know about you guys but whenever we'd play I would be having a lot of fun, mixed with that little sense of fear and "oh shit" feeling,
Never been able to duplicate that level of fun mixed with the tolerable level of fear, until I joined the fire department after graduating highschool. I think I've found the adrenaline pot of gold by going into burning houses and having absolutely no clue why you keep moving forward when everything in your head is screaming "WHAT THE FUCK ARE YOU DOING!?". As a Police Officer, I don't even reach the same adrenaline plain during the most exciting aspects of the job (which is actually a good thing).
I think dodgeball gets a bad name as one of those things that gets demonized wrongly today in the PC Nazi world. If there ever was a dodgeball pickup game in my area, I'm in
This is great! One of the things I miss about school is the game of dodgeball. It was like playing paintball or tag on a more intense level. I don't know about you guys but whenever we'd play I would be having a lot of fun, mixed with that little sense of fear and "oh shit" feeling,
Never been able to duplicate that level of fun mixed with the tolerable level of fear, until I joined the fire department after graduating highschool. I think I've found the adrenaline pot of gold by going into burning houses and having absolutely no clue why you keep moving forward when everything in your head is screaming "WHAT THE FUCK ARE YOU DOING!?". As a Police Officer, I don't even reach the same adrenaline plain during the most exciting aspects of the job (which is actually a good thing).
I think dodgeball gets a bad name as one of those things that gets demonized wrongly today in the PC Nazi world. If there ever was a dodgeball pickup game in my area, I'm in