Elaine
Active member
Being a good girl I have realised that this deserves its own thread.
The Rock-on-the-head trick at sumps is not my idea of a nice trick to play on someone. In fact it is no better than holding someone's head under the water. However, I think that there is a place for some harmless fun in caves. After all, I like a good fun caving trip.
Once when I was waiting at Sump one in Swildons (being a girlie and not always being able to do the sump etc etc - you don't want to know!!) I was revising for an exam at the time and took some revision to do whilst waiting for my fellow cavers to return through the sump. I was well engrossed in my reading, and did not notice one of my group creep lightless and silently through the sump in the hope of catching me unawares. Suddenly he grabbed my welly. Goodness, didn't I jump! I called him all sorts of names as he dashed off back through the sump to Hugh to laugh at his success. But I laughed too, and it was a good happy memory. There is plenty of harmless fun and little pranks to play in caves. Gosh we don't it all to become too boring and sensible do we? Of course, you have to exercise a bit of common sense, but what is the harm in sensible fun?
What do you think? Have you had a trick played on you that was quite fun and harmless? Or should such silliness be kept out of caving which is after all a potentially dangerous place to play?
The Rock-on-the-head trick at sumps is not my idea of a nice trick to play on someone. In fact it is no better than holding someone's head under the water. However, I think that there is a place for some harmless fun in caves. After all, I like a good fun caving trip.
Once when I was waiting at Sump one in Swildons (being a girlie and not always being able to do the sump etc etc - you don't want to know!!) I was revising for an exam at the time and took some revision to do whilst waiting for my fellow cavers to return through the sump. I was well engrossed in my reading, and did not notice one of my group creep lightless and silently through the sump in the hope of catching me unawares. Suddenly he grabbed my welly. Goodness, didn't I jump! I called him all sorts of names as he dashed off back through the sump to Hugh to laugh at his success. But I laughed too, and it was a good happy memory. There is plenty of harmless fun and little pranks to play in caves. Gosh we don't it all to become too boring and sensible do we? Of course, you have to exercise a bit of common sense, but what is the harm in sensible fun?
What do you think? Have you had a trick played on you that was quite fun and harmless? Or should such silliness be kept out of caving which is after all a potentially dangerous place to play?