Redneck Tightrope: A Short Story

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Sometimes you do something incredibly stupid now for Jim that came more often than most people but here is one major time that he did something that would seem insane to the average human mind but not to me. Jims and his friend Carl were over at Jim's house running around in the yard they decided to go over and climb the tree that Jim had in his yard. So they got up there and started jumping around when all of a sudden Jim had this great idea Redneck Tightrope. Jim told Carl to wait for a bit while he went in to fetch some rope with the right length and width. After about five minutes of searching Jim finally found it a 22 foot long 1 inch thick white rope it was the perfect length and perfect thickness he grabbed the rope and rushed back outside to the tree he called Carl down and he helped Jim tie the rope on one tree and then the other. …show more content…

Obviously Jim won so that means he would be the first contestant. Jim made the easy climb up to the tree using stubbs from where branches had been cut off after about 10 seconds of climbing he got a hold of the lowest branch and hauled his 110 pound body up there and made one step onto the rope at first Jim put roughly 75 percent of his weight on the branch that was hanging about 3 feet over the rope after all the only thing keeping the rope from sliding of the tree were more stubs from a bad arborist. Jim gradually got about 6 feet across the 15 foot span of the rope and about 10 feet in it was time to switch from the strong pine branch that he was holding onto to a thinner one on the other tree. It looked like no problem from the ground but being there seeing He would have to quickly shuffle 2 feet not holding onto anything and relying on an inch thick rope to keep him from falling it was a lot harder than he would have

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