This is the first item that I completed on my list. I completely realize that it is ridiculous to have this as an item to complete before dying, but it always seemed like it would be fun.
There was an expo at the mall that is located near my house. A couple of my friends and I decided to go. Once there we walked around and acted extremely immature as males do when they are together without a female presence.
I had told my friends about this list that I had started and a couple of them had looked at it. It puts things into perspective when you have to think that all of us will die someday and there just happen to be some stuff that we all dream/aspire to accomplish.
Well, we were at this expo and one of them mentioned that one of my items listed was to jump into the pool at the mall. It is actually a fountain, but I intended to swim a little while I was in there, so I called it a pool.
As I prepared myself to make the leap of faith, it required me to remove my shoes. I was wearing slippers at the time and I did not want to lose them with the perfect 10 olympic style dive that I was about to do into the fountain.
I looked around to make sure I knew where the security guards and exits were because I did not want to go to jail so early on in my completion of list items. If you check the list you will see that spending a night in jail is one of the items, however I was not in the "kill two birds with one stone mood." Historically speaking, I am an underachiever, and I like things that are constant.
After removing my slippers, looking for security guards and exits, it was time to make the dive. I began running toward the fountain and as I got there instead of jumping I ran around it.
Everyone with me thought that I had backed out at the last possible second, not the case. You cannot jump into bodies of water with a wallet and phone with the expectation of it all coming out dry. I subsequently gave all of my personal belongings to a friend. Afterward, he became embarassed because he realized everyone saw him talking to me and I was about to cause quite a scene.
Round two: this time i take off running and as I approach the fountain/pool I let out a barbaric scream that causes everyone to look at me as I land into the water. My reasoning was that I wanted everyone to enjoy this moment just as much as me.
After swimming around for a couple moments and watching the security guards converge upon me, I got out of the water and made my way to an exit that I had scouted before getting wet.
The security guards chased me all the way out into the parking lot, but were unsuccessful in catching the mall pool diving bandit. MUAAAHHHH!!!
Lovely and refreshing start toward me having a successfull life.
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