Whippets

            Nitrous oxide (whippet) can be found in whip cream cans or in cartridges that need to be dispensed into a canister or balloon. Nitrous oxide is laughing gas, the gas the dentist will give you.
            Many years ago, when I was just a pup, it seemed that I could be talked into anything, never seeing beyond what ever it was we would do. Never saw danger or legal ramifications, just saw excitement and fun. Me and three other dumb ass youths thought it would be a good idea to do our whippet filled balloons while sitting on a bridge about 30 feet above a jagged rock filled shallow creek. The guy next to me asked how to do this. I looked at him in amazement that he had never done a whippet. Just inhale the balloon I said, then I said "maybe you should get off the wall", he said that he would be alright. As we took the whole balloon into our lungs, the short buzz begins and not being able to pay to much attention to what was going on around us. I felt the guy next to me lean into me, then I felt him lay his shoulder onto my lap. I looked down just in time to watch him roll off my lap and free fall completely past out. Everything was slow motion and I was helpless to help him. Like a rag doll, completely limp he fell. He landed on his back in two feet of water barley missing the jagged rocks around him. As the water came up over his face he woke, jumped up and said "Holy shit did I just fall from there?" None of us could believe what had just happened. He got lucky, only had to get fifteen stitches and a lecture for all of us from the E R doctor about how stupid we all were.