the price of pride
so for those of you who don't know hosam very well... he's a cool ass dude, but very stubborn. this turns into a problem when my stubborn ass gets into an argument/discussion with him and we see things differently... hosam believes there are a lot of things he can do or that i can't do, and i tend to disagree either way and we generally just argue about it, drop it, then resume weeks later... not today.
today we resumed an argument where hosam believed he could run over the top of a car that was driving 20mph at him... that's right... meaning a car could drive at him 20mph, he would run at it, jump up on to the hood, onto the roof, and then control himself coming off... i disagreed. so what did we do? we put money on it and decided to actually do it.
now it takes a ton of balls for anyone to even attempt this little stunt, so i respect that, and for that reason i decided to call thet bet a wash (meaning nobody wins) if he tried it and didn't succeed... he would get $20 if he could do it, and i would get $10 if he backed out... to be perfectly honest i was hoping for him to backout 1) because then i would get $10... and 2) because i didn't want to see one of my good friends get hurt... i mean really i thought he was going to slip off the hood and come through the windshield... but hosam has more balls then anyone else i know apparently, because he did the unthinkable and actually attempted this stunt.
that's right, the dude runs at the car coming at him 20mph, jumps onto the hood, tries to get onto the roof but gets clipped by the top of the windshield and his foot drags along the roof of the car which knocks him sideways and he lands on the ground arm/shoulder and face first... he got up though and was fine... but unfortunately his body was not as tough as his mind and he has a fractured arm and will be in a cast for several weeks or months.
anyways, i just want to say that even though it was quite possibly the stupidest thing that any of my friends have ever done (and the irony is that he did it to prove he wasn't a "dumbass"), it took a tremendous amount of balls and I respect the fact that he went through with it. i have included a play by play of what happened in case you can't picture it.
Hosam, I salute you.
p.s.
I want to buy some of the painkillers you are getting.
today we resumed an argument where hosam believed he could run over the top of a car that was driving 20mph at him... that's right... meaning a car could drive at him 20mph, he would run at it, jump up on to the hood, onto the roof, and then control himself coming off... i disagreed. so what did we do? we put money on it and decided to actually do it.
now it takes a ton of balls for anyone to even attempt this little stunt, so i respect that, and for that reason i decided to call thet bet a wash (meaning nobody wins) if he tried it and didn't succeed... he would get $20 if he could do it, and i would get $10 if he backed out... to be perfectly honest i was hoping for him to backout 1) because then i would get $10... and 2) because i didn't want to see one of my good friends get hurt... i mean really i thought he was going to slip off the hood and come through the windshield... but hosam has more balls then anyone else i know apparently, because he did the unthinkable and actually attempted this stunt.
that's right, the dude runs at the car coming at him 20mph, jumps onto the hood, tries to get onto the roof but gets clipped by the top of the windshield and his foot drags along the roof of the car which knocks him sideways and he lands on the ground arm/shoulder and face first... he got up though and was fine... but unfortunately his body was not as tough as his mind and he has a fractured arm and will be in a cast for several weeks or months.
anyways, i just want to say that even though it was quite possibly the stupidest thing that any of my friends have ever done (and the irony is that he did it to prove he wasn't a "dumbass"), it took a tremendous amount of balls and I respect the fact that he went through with it. i have included a play by play of what happened in case you can't picture it.
Hosam, I salute you.
p.s.
I want to buy some of the painkillers you are getting.