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[–] BCsven 33 points 2 months ago (1 children)

Physical leap, startled, or time travel?

[–] [email protected] 2 points 2 months ago
[–] [email protected] 20 points 2 months ago

Right now because I read this. And then I realised that I jumped a few days ago because my partner and I were talking about our floorboards, and by pure chance I jumped in the same place and it triggered that memory. But I wouldn't have remembered it if I hadn't read this and jumped now.

[–] [email protected] 19 points 2 months ago (1 children)

Literally this afternoon I jumped as high as I could to see if I could touch the ceiling. I could not.

[–] [email protected] 6 points 2 months ago (1 children)

check out Mr Big Shot over here with the high ceilings

[–] m4xie 6 points 2 months ago

The ceilings are normal. He's actually Mr Small Shot

[–] [email protected] 14 points 2 months ago

April. Broke my foot. Sucks, man.

[–] [email protected] 10 points 2 months ago (2 children)

Does bounding up the stairs count? I definitely get air and I do it almost every time I go up stairs. I average about 20 flights of stairs a day.

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[–] [email protected] 9 points 2 months ago

Car wouldn't start.

[–] [email protected] 9 points 2 months ago (2 children)

I went to year 1194 and saw some Turkish guys arguing about some grey men. Later Time Interference and Time Travel Society (TITTS) seized my travel card.

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[–] [email protected] 8 points 2 months ago

Yesterday! At a concert. A LOT

[–] [email protected] 7 points 2 months ago (1 children)

About fifteen minutes ago.

The third and fourth stairs leading to my second floor are rotted out and I’m too lazy to replace them so it’s a couple times a day.

[–] [email protected] 2 points 2 months ago

Famous last words πŸ’€

[–] [email protected] 6 points 2 months ago

This afternoon, while walking through a parking lot with my toddler. We had to avoid the cracks.

[–] [email protected] 6 points 2 months ago

Today. I exercised

[–] [email protected] 6 points 2 months ago (1 children)

Literally a couple hours ago because my coworker asked the same question.

[–] [email protected] 4 points 2 months ago

Plot twist: op is your coworker

[–] [email protected] 6 points 2 months ago

down a few steps earlier. yes, i live dangerously.

[–] [email protected] 5 points 2 months ago* (last edited 2 months ago)

I don't quite remember, but sort of like... 8 hours ago while traveling to work in a company bus.

The driver was going quite fast and didn't notice a speed bump. Shortly, he became a pilot.

Ah fuck it, lets simplify it. 5 seconds ago. There you go.

[–] [email protected] 5 points 2 months ago

Last time I went down the stairs at my apartment complex. Accidentally started going down on the wrong foot and wouldn't land on the correct foot when I got off the stairs, so I jumped the last couple. Long story short, in my case it's an autism thing more than any actual issue, so that is why I jumped.

[–] [email protected] 5 points 2 months ago

Almost every day. Whether I'm skipping a step, avoiding a puddle, panic-flailing away from a sudden pile of dog shit, or trying to grab something from a too-high shelf in my small apartment, living in Brooklyn means you're idiot-floating more often than not

[–] [email protected] 4 points 2 months ago

January, i friend was out of town for two months and the battery of his car was dead, fortunately I had my cables in the trunk of my car

[–] [email protected] 4 points 2 months ago

3 weeks ago and I hurt myself. I'm not a kid anymore.

[–] [email protected] 4 points 2 months ago (1 children)

The cat suddenly parked itself on the stairs. Some day, she'll cause serious harm. Until then, pet, pet you cute assassin.

[–] [email protected] 3 points 2 months ago

Our cat has been trying to kill us for 21 years. He wasn't feeling well recently, but after a vet visit and meds, I knew he was feeling better as soon as he darted across my path and I almost tripped.

[–] [email protected] 4 points 2 months ago (1 children)

I jumped to miss a puddle.

[–] [email protected] 2 points 2 months ago

Me too! An icy/snowy puddle

[–] [email protected] 4 points 2 months ago

Visiting a buddy's crossfit gym. He's since left that gym so I imagine I'll never jump again.

[–] [email protected] 3 points 2 months ago

Oh, I call it leaping. Quantum leap. It's been almost 10 years. Decided to settle down and live out this life.

[–] [email protected] 3 points 2 months ago

Yesterday. My kids and I like to imitate awkward game/MMO character movements so there's a lot of random jumping.

[–] [email protected] 3 points 2 months ago

Like really really jumped? July 31st 2024

[–] [email protected] 3 points 2 months ago

Can't remember. I have done some things that might be considered a hop. To avoid puddles or slick spots on sidewalk or mud.

[–] [email protected] 3 points 2 months ago

I was trying to see if I would become a billionaire if I jumped in an X like Musk. Hasn't worked yet

[–] [email protected] 3 points 2 months ago (1 children)

My sister asked if I'm tall enough to touch the ceiling. My hand was wet and I left 3 fingerprints up there.

[–] [email protected] 3 points 2 months ago (1 children)

Can you jump and touch your head to the doorway? My kids used to challenge each other to that.

[–] [email protected] 1 points 2 months ago

Probably? Idk I'm not home now can't test it

[–] Thavron 3 points 2 months ago

Last Thursday I jumped up onto a ledge at the office to take better pictures of the vaulted ceiling. We're renting out the space so my boss asked me to take pictures.

[–] [email protected] 2 points 2 months ago

2013-ish? My ex-spouse was really into that. They went on to get certified, I did my 3rd or 4th solo jump (still had main and reserve coaches, but not a tandem jump), and decided that it didn't mean enough to me to keep spending money on it. My ex-spouse ended up embezzling a lot of money from our joint account to pay for their jumping habit; they bought a container, main and reserve canopies, and a custom jumpsuit, and then tried to to stick me with the credit card debt for it in the divorce.

[–] [email protected] 2 points 2 months ago

A few days ago, to grab a glass off a shelf

[–] [email protected] 2 points 2 months ago

I did a little skipping out today. It's a signal to my dog that we get moving along.

[–] [email protected] 2 points 2 months ago

Summer last year, getting into a private/walled off area I wanted to explore. (That was a ~2m drop onto some stairs so getting out was much harder than getting in haha)

[–] [email protected] 2 points 2 months ago

To get out of someone's way in a store today. Not really a jump, more like a hop.

[–] [email protected] 2 points 2 months ago

Maybe 30 minutes ago, I was watching a very tense video.

[–] [email protected] 2 points 2 months ago

maybe half an hour ago, when i jumped into bed. before that, i jumped up or over a few ledges on my walk home from work. wild to me that anyone is citing a timeframe longer than a day to be honest,

[–] [email protected] 2 points 2 months ago

I go bouldering and do a lot of dynos, so I regularly jump. Last time was special though it was yesterday when I was at amateur wrestling for the first time as the Shrieking Spud

[–] [email protected] 1 points 2 months ago* (last edited 2 months ago)

I jump at least few times per month, when I walk with my dog in random places. Most often over small river in my area I think.

[–] saigot 1 points 2 months ago

I almost always skip the last 3 steps of my stairs on the way down.

[–] [email protected] 1 points 2 months ago* (last edited 2 months ago)

Probably a few days ago. Sometimes I just be leaping and bounding. Jumping even, in my home.

[–] [email protected] 1 points 2 months ago

About a week ago. At work. To try to get a kid to jump.

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