".... I saw the wall, thought - yeah, I can get over that; and I did." The power of belief - Mark 11:24. .... plus an excess of 'stimulating' beverages adding courage/bravado?
John Douglas
25 February 2020 at 09:08
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WmJas Tychonievich put up a picture of one of his cats atop a high cabinet - an impossible ascent.
I did that too. See the wall on the left? I climbed over it (alone) one evening, wearing a big overcoat - I was escaping from a... situation in a rough pub in the East End of London - and found myself at the end of an alley.
I was not being pursued or anything, but this wall was separating me from my accomodation in the hall of residence for St Bartholomew's ('Barts') Medical School. It was a long way around to the main entrance. I was late. Nobody was around...
I went back the next day, and there is no way I could have climbed that wall - what is it, 8 or 10 feet high with a little parapet?
I know it is not a superhuman feat, I could presumably jump and catch the top... But I'm no athlete, I was heavily garbed, and I had been compelled to accept an excessive number and volume of beers from people who made it clear that refusal would be regarded as an insult. So I was in No Condition to climb that wall at all, certainly not safely.
But somehow I found myself on the other side and OK.
No theories - except that I saw the wall, thought - yeah, I can get over that; and I did.
"Over the wall"
2 Comments -
An admirable accomplishment. After too much beer, I usually just walked right into walls and fell down.
24 February 2020 at 20:31
".... I saw the wall, thought - yeah, I can get over that; and I did."
The power of belief - Mark 11:24.
.... plus an excess of 'stimulating' beverages adding courage/bravado?
John
Douglas
25 February 2020 at 09:08