Date:
February 18th, 2010
From:
Hannah Banana
Question:
How old do you have to be when you can first skydive?????
Goofball Answer:
Hannah,
I'm tickled one of my nieces is asking this question; it means I'm having some influence without even launching a full-on Campaign of Corruption. Please tell your Mom I did not pay you to ask this question. Thanks.
In the United States of Litigation, we have so many contingency-fee lawyers, that you must be 18 years old to skydive, sweetie. So I'm afraid your first jump will probably come after your first fender-bender, first kiss, and first trip to the "news and hobby" shop. But that's OK—it'll come faster than you can possibly imagine. So don't waste a moment between now and then waiting, because until then there's no reason we can't throw in some rock climbing or something, for which there are no age requirements.
I love you,
Uncle Chr!s