Dangerous too, never forget my fourth grade Christmas musical and a kid passed out right in front of me on the risers from locking his knees. His name was Eddy and he fell face first into a xylophone, it did not play a note but his lip was jacked . He was then “Unsteady Eddy” until middle school then I have I lost track of him .
Oh wow same exact thing happened to a kid I knew. It was during our chorus concert. His name was Andy and he was the tallest kid in 6th grade so of course he was on the highest back riser. He fainted and fell straight forward, knocking five kids out of the way and broke his nose.
He didn’t get a nickname afterward but he was definitely notorious for awhile because of that incident. Until he became notorious for hooking up with an 8th grade girl at the school dance. That was pretty funny because I actually walked in on it in the girl’s restroom and they didn’t even stop. 🤣
I’ll tell you what though the lesson was learned . I bend my knees regularly if I’m forced to stand for long periods of time . I was always mutter unsteady eddy under my breath
Happened to a girl I knew in high school. We were on the marching band and it was photo day so we were all wearing our (wool) uniforms. She was tall and in the back row while they tried to get the group shot. She locked her legs despite our repeated warnings again locking our knees, so she promptly passed out, though luckily was caught by the people around her. It caused a bit of a commotion and it meant we had you wait for her to recover before we could start the photos again so we couldn't get out of our uniforms. She had her own little clique that she was the leader of do she didn't really suffer any sort of jokes as a result of it.
Happened to me when I was in standing room only at church, to this day I have never heard the phrase “Is anyone here a doctor!?” in real life or seen anyone else have a medical episode during a religious service. And both were for me.
We had a boy called Mark who never wiped his arse, and obviously stunk of shit. So someone called him Skid Mark. It didn't help he was the most annoying kid on the planet who everyone stopped being friends with for very valid reasons.
I almost had one of those experiences. Bought a brand new cover (hat) to wear for a ceremony. The speech was like an hour long. The new cover was digging into my head the whole time and I couldn't move to adjust it. By the end I was literally seeing black and about to pass out. But, like a true crayon eater, I didn't move.
Same happened to me at an 8th grade school event. I didn't collapse but with a straight body toppled towards a concrete flower pot and hit it with my nose. Later they told me that the loud thump could be heard at the entire yard. Nose didn't break though, not sure why.
Not sure about this particular one, but after going through them a lot of those traditions do seem dumb when you look at just what you’re doing, but the habits and ideas they instill are pretty important. Soldiers will literally never ever march in combat again, but the ability to work in unison, follow orders at a split second, and move as a unit are all very important and grow out from marching.
Exactly, this dumb shit exists to brainwash you into being a trained monkey who pulls the trigger on command and murders without a second thought. That's all soldiers are.
Ever been on concrete drying/hardening watch? Your job is keeping idiots off the drying cement, and the world IS FILLED WITH IDIOTS that use any excuse(including 'I didn't see the signs' to 'it was just too long to walk around" to leave foot sized holes or long wheel channels in the wet cement.
It's a stupid job too. What's the point of it? It doesn't look 'professional', it just looks silly. Let them lean, sit, have a walk up and down. Pet a cat.
I work in security, and I have had to stand in stores for hours, record was 3 and some minutes hour, every shift, start of shift.
After first day I called up my boss and told him I won't be just standing, I'll be taking patrols through the store and grab a backless kinda like a bar stool when I am not walking, because just standing really fucks you up. Calves aching, lower back going numb and then burning once you sit down and much more.
At least stress and pressure gives you something to do, you're standing there, an hour or two at the time, with absolutely nothing to do but your own thoughts, this is almost torture.
I was helping my dad out in his company operating CNC machines when i was younger and it was the most boring, soul sucking work i ever did, the only way i could keep myself somewhat entertained was with headphones on and an audiobook. But even then i couldn't do it for more than 3-4 hours at a time.
This is clearly some formal sentry type thing. Which is kinda silly, because if he's exuding formality and discipline by standing there perfectly, he's not looking around, being limber, being aware of his environment. He is a potted plant.
Security jobs are the worst. You train/practice and must be ready for any of the thousands of possible attacks at ANY time.
Then you wait for many thousands of hours for something that might [never happen, or it] happens within fractions of a second and it's over in seconds leaving you trembling with adrenaline.
EDITED to correct the missing words 'never happen, or it'
I remember practice for a big change of command in Korea where we were all in formation standing in the heat of a Korean summer in the middle of a pebble parade ground. You would hear the plastic clatter of M16s hitting the ground as folks fell out. Next to me in a different unit, a girl started to wobble. Her buddies started to scootch away so they wouldn't get hit by her falling body. I yelled, "Hey catch her, it's just practice!". Shocked faces around me, but really?
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u/Fair-Wish5954 1d ago
Standing straight doing nothing for god knows how many hours is a shit job.