Making your own entertainment often leads to stupid ideas. One such one I have dubbed Stairway Hopping. The purpose: See how many stairs we can jump down without killing ourselves. Most of the games Spaz, Jaws, and I invented involved seeing how much blank we could blank before we critically injured ourselves. We all started at the beginning. We started from jumping from the first stair to the ground, then the second, then third, and so on. I think my record was nine steps by the time we stopped stairway hopping. Since it began to hurt when we landed on the ground we began putting blankets and pillows at our landig site to lessen the impact. However, this also allowed us to jump from higher up than we could, thus more chances for injury if we screwed up somehow. And screwing up was common. I accumulated many bruises this way. We made it a contest to see how many steps we could jump down, and we got competitive. Eventually we found ways to make it more interesting, such as sledding down the stairs and crashing into the door at the bottom. Or seeing if we could jump down the stairs backwards (we didn't do this a lot. It never ended well) There was also a short lived period of hurling someone down if they didn't want to go. Yes, our ideas never really worked well for us, and before too long we declared stairway hopping officially extinct. I'm surprised that legs weren't broken (though ocassionally sprained).
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