Ridiculous rules
Initially, I wanted to publish the first relict post, but I have news which are more important!
America is often called the land with unrestricted possibilities. Sometimes, I have the opinion a better name would be the land with an unrestricted amount of ridiculous rules.
Today, I went to the swimming pool at the University Center. After the training, I went to the diving board to have some fun. After a few jumps from the 1m board, I decided to climb the 3m board. I was surprised when the pool attendant was whistling against me. After CLIMBIMG DOWN from the 3m tower, she explained that only the diving team is allowed to jump from the 3m tower. When I asked why, she told me for security reasons… The sad thing about that is that I had to find out that even CMU has ridiculous rules!
Maybe, I should start gathering all the ridiculous rules, which prevent me from having fun!
January 29th, 2009 at 8:43 am
bummer
January 29th, 2009 at 9:14 am
Hmpf, security reasons, for 3m? That’s absurd.. even I can safely jump from 3 meters
January 29th, 2009 at 5:11 pm
hate to tell you but only terrorists jump from 3m…
seriously, I’d guess they’re afraid someone would hurt himself and then they’d get sued afterwards…
well breaking an arm is part of live, it happens when you ride a bike (let’s sue that tree, he was in my way!!) or whatever you do… it’s not a reason to make anyone else responsible except yourself…
January 29th, 2009 at 7:35 pm
During my time here in Pittsburgh, I have encountered many silly rules. But this one is the first at the University. Somehow, I thought/hopped that educated people are a little bit further…