retro photo (this post also features SHOUTING)

Another comic posted to her blog that her mother skydives and insists that doing standup must be scarier than skydiving. My mother has never gone skydiving, but also insists that doing standup must be scary, indeed.

I have done both and felt the need to comment:

Skydiving was scarier than standup (unsurprisingly), but the big thing about skydiving wasn't the fear of dying, it was that it's COLD up there and it SUCKS. Breathing freezing sky-wind at high altitudes gave me LARYNGITIS in JULY. Sorry for shouting, but skydiving was not the beautiful swan dive from the plane into the glorious cerulean sky that I expected.