On Aug 16, 2015, at 12:45 PM, epostboxx@xxxxxxxx wrote:
On 16 Aug 2015, at 20:25, David Ritchie <profdritchie@xxxxxxxxx> wrote:
At a party held beside a pool I learned that the mental quirk some people
(including me) experience on high balconies, the slight and absolutely
resistible urge to throw yourself off, can extend to throwing yourself into
a pool.
One reads of Rudyard Kipling that at his residence (Bateman's) in Burwash,
East Sussex, England he made a shallow pond for (among other things) his
children and their friends to bathe and boat in. The pond is immortalized in
the visitor's book, where certain guests have the letters 'FIP' appended to
their names.
'FIP' - for 'fell in pond'.
It is not recorded whether the 'fallers' stumbled (for any one of a number of
reasons), jumped (for the reason outlined above) or were pushed. (And I do
not know what percentage of visitors have their names are so graced.)