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El Camino del Rey

Submitted by Roanman on Sun, 03/04/2012 - 07:35

 

I've done a fair amount of thinking about fear and phobias during the course of my life having had just the strangest experience with a girl who turned into a human statue one afternoon having been blocked from the door in a horses stall.

It was one of my horses of course, and while not a lover like some I've had he didn't have a mean bone in his body and to my knowledge from the day he had his testicles removed never even had an aggressive thought.

Needless to say, there was no second date.

Among my issues is acrophobia.

I've always been interested in how and why a certain fear or phobia gets a hold on you as I can with dead certainty identify the exact instant that I went from a kid who would climb anything to a guy who ain't climbing nothing much bigger that your average sized horse.

16 hands is about my limit and I ain't tellin'.

Anyway, someone (apologies) sent us this vid long enough ago that it only had fifteen or twenty thousand hits.

It now has some two million four hundred thousand views.

It has taken me that long to watch the thing all the way through.

Feel free to laugh.

Anyway again, thanks to Thunder at Touch the Banner my favorite site for all things Michigan Football, who posted a series of stills on this climb last night which was what caused me to give the vid another try again this morning.

This is just flat stupid as far as I'm concerned, but then again I'm closing in on 60 and still riding colts.