Grandpa gone astray.

Hello, my dears!
First you have to know that I slipped into (un)retirement in 2022 and don't want to settle down😁. Maybe the person “up there” has meant well towards me so far, because I’m still largely “free of construction work” and my health insurance card has already accumulated a thick layer of dust... Well, you shouldn’t cheer too loudly, that will change at some point... but in the future I can still do it for a moment! And that's why I fill my day with life. Especially a lot of life! In my job as an optician, I still work as a holiday and illness cover and have now opened my gallery “Needful Things” in Manderscheid, in which, in addition to my art collection, I also have “the largest private collection of “Living Puppets” and “Kumquats” folding mouth dolls “public exhibition in Germany” and at the same time support local cultural associations by collecting donations (which I will then double). A small social project that was close to my heart - and along the way I got to know a lot of great people (and who knows, maybe the woman of my dreams might run into me or fall on my feet 😂). Since I now go on more vacations within my small budget and travel to one or two countries that are foreign to me, I don't get bored.

A few years ago I was able to experience the adventure of “tandem skydiving”. People: Do it!! A unique experience😁!
Now I really don't want to prove anything to myself or others with such little adventures. It's just that: I'm (probably😂) only on this earth once and I just want the full program! Now I have a severe fear of heights. But I don't see the need to “tuck in” to something if I physically could. So I'm looking for a challenge because I still have courage. And the adrenaline that shoots through your body and compensates you for all the fear beforehand - priceless😁🙈!

A few weeks ago I took a course on the relatively new, “most demanding via ferrata north of the Alps” in Manderscheid in order to have a new experience. I had known the course leader Hermann Dresen from Manderscheid for a long time and would like to thank him again for his friendly way of competently introducing us to the technology and the joy of this hobby. I had the feeling that I was being pushed well to my limits here, even if the “C” spots were still humane in terms of difficulty. After a few hours of the course, Hermann suggested a detour to a course that was actually not part of the basic course due to a “D” location. I couldn't say no. Now first of all: I capitulated at the D point. But that wasn't actually the problem😂. On the way there we had to cross the new suspension bridge! People!!! I have NEVER had such a bad time crossing in my life😂! Now I gain more respect for some of the Indiana Jones films. If you only know the “Geierlay” in Mörsdorf, you can’t have a say…that’s Pillepalle😉! Since I broke off at the point directly behind it, I had to take the suspension bridge back to the exit point...🤪

I'm still alive. And had unexpected feelings of happiness afterwards.

A few weeks later I had the 64th day of hatching! Beforehand, I must have blabbed something loudly to my daughter. In any case, the best daughter in the world gave me a Jochen Schweizer voucher for “houserunning” in Lahnstein near Koblenz🥰! How cool was that😂? Now I quickly made an appointment at the end of August, because waiting any longer didn't make sense - they won't take anyone with a walker
arrives...

On Saturday, August 26th, 2023 the time had come. If I didn't know shaking knees before - now I know them😁!
The place where I was supposed to die was a hotel in Lahnstein. 50 meters high. From below I could already see the aluminum traverses on the edge of the roof, which were supposed to hold the safety ropes. A guide rope ran down the wall of the house. I couldn't see any blood residue on the facade, but crime scene cleaners get rid of everything. And somehow...there hasn't been anything exciting in the news for a long time, maybe there was something in the newspaper on Monday😈. There is also a rumor going around that the LVA, as a pension provider, pays a shooting bonus for every (un)retired person killed...😂

A small elevator quickly took me to the 15th floor - two young people from the adventure team were already waiting there. After some small talk and the obligatory signature of the disclaimer on my declaration of intent to commit suicide, we went out to the roof. At least dry and sunny. Perhaps one last look at this sun. I had had a great life. I hope that Wolfgang, my brother, can forgive me in retrospect for always giving him crap when playing board games 50 years ago. Sorry - you couldn't win😈😂!

I was now tied up. I remembered bondage games somehow differently. The nice guy had a calming manner about him, I actually wanted to ask how long a rope like that would last. He probably would have just calmed me down by saying that everyone would have made it downstairs...😈

Armed with gloves, I now had to stand on top of the edge. Just don't look down. After I carelessly gave my OK, the rope was slowly lowered forward so that my body was stretched out perpendicular to the facade and I could then use the guide rope to regulate the speed at which I could run down the wall - face down ! You have no idea what kind of adrenaline rush was produced in my body!! About halfway down, my guardian angel up there motivated me to take a few jumps away from the house wall, which I did immediately! Geeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeesssssssssss... everyone looked so small from up here🙈

After about 5 minutes I reached the bottom safely. The employee downstairs mumbled something into her walki talkie that sounded like: “You can cancel the appointment with the press”😂….

I still live.



What else could I imagine😂?
Sure, of course. Bungee jumping. Almost a “must have”😂🙈…Wasn’t there something about the Rappbodetalsperre in the Harz region😂 - well, if so, then already😎.

I'm still saving up for the spacewalk. And I'm still spared the most dangerous thing a man can do - contradicting his loved one, as I haven't found her yet😂. Although...women are known to be able to forgive even though the man has done nothing wrong😂

In that sense...do what you enjoy, just DO it! Life is too short for “someday”. Live your dream!