Randomness...
Aug. 24th, 2004 07:57 pm![[personal profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/silk/identity/user.png){kind=small}
laliginD'you know, I've broken two arrows and a bow at archery?
Somehow, breaking the arrows is more guilt-inducing. Maybe because I like Keith better than Elaine, and it was Elaine's bow, and Keith's arrows. ^_^
Ah, but having a bow explode while you hold it is SCARY. You pull the string, next thing you know there's a huge CRACK and wood flying everywhere. You're left holding the handle and the string, with pieces of bow thirty yards away towards the targets. Eek.
Of course, having everyone promptly tell me that the bow that just exploded in my hands was made of a poisonous wood didn't help...
But the arrows... Ah, the arrows really hurt when they break. One snapped right near the fletchings, so there was no hope of repairing it... I hit the metal peg securing the target, so the poor little wooden arrow didn't stand a chance. The other arrow came out of the target without its point. It could be given a new one, I suppose.
But anyway, I'm down to having 4 arrows instead of 6... and I've started shooting only 3 at the club meetings, just so I'll definitely have ONE to give back to Keith, unless I trip and crush it...
But nobody's too bothered, because everyone else breaks arrows all the time. And all the people who've been shooting for years have had three or four bows explode. I'm just an EARLY force of destruction, that's all. At least I haven't done what someone did...
He was taking arrows out of a target, pulled the target off balance, and sent the whole thing crashing to the floor on top of dozens of OTHER PEOPLE'S arrows...
And someone else shut a door too soon and beheaded a dozen brand new arrows that didn't belong to him...
And someone else snapped an arrow in three places when it hit the back leg...
And someone else left the metal point in the target when pulling an arrow out...
And someone else fractured the arrow by shooting it into the target leg...
And someone else broke all the nocking points on set of 6 arrows by using a thicker string than they were for...
And Keith broke one of his own arrows that I'd fired (a different set to the lot I've got now) by trying to stick it into the ground (standard procedure, so you can see where it is) only the ground was too hard, and it snapped in his hand...
So really, I'm not that bad. ^_^
Somehow, breaking the arrows is more guilt-inducing. Maybe because I like Keith better than Elaine, and it was Elaine's bow, and Keith's arrows. ^_^
Ah, but having a bow explode while you hold it is SCARY. You pull the string, next thing you know there's a huge CRACK and wood flying everywhere. You're left holding the handle and the string, with pieces of bow thirty yards away towards the targets. Eek.
Of course, having everyone promptly tell me that the bow that just exploded in my hands was made of a poisonous wood didn't help...
But the arrows... Ah, the arrows really hurt when they break. One snapped right near the fletchings, so there was no hope of repairing it... I hit the metal peg securing the target, so the poor little wooden arrow didn't stand a chance. The other arrow came out of the target without its point. It could be given a new one, I suppose.
But anyway, I'm down to having 4 arrows instead of 6... and I've started shooting only 3 at the club meetings, just so I'll definitely have ONE to give back to Keith, unless I trip and crush it...
But nobody's too bothered, because everyone else breaks arrows all the time. And all the people who've been shooting for years have had three or four bows explode. I'm just an EARLY force of destruction, that's all. At least I haven't done what someone did...
He was taking arrows out of a target, pulled the target off balance, and sent the whole thing crashing to the floor on top of dozens of OTHER PEOPLE'S arrows...
And someone else shut a door too soon and beheaded a dozen brand new arrows that didn't belong to him...
And someone else snapped an arrow in three places when it hit the back leg...
And someone else left the metal point in the target when pulling an arrow out...
And someone else fractured the arrow by shooting it into the target leg...
And someone else broke all the nocking points on set of 6 arrows by using a thicker string than they were for...
And Keith broke one of his own arrows that I'd fired (a different set to the lot I've got now) by trying to stick it into the ground (standard procedure, so you can see where it is) only the ground was too hard, and it snapped in his hand...
So really, I'm not that bad. ^_^
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Date: 2004-08-25 02:57 am (UTC)Hee, I remember someone on a school trip talking about how yew was poisonous and a pupil asked why they didn't make arrows out of it too so they could have poisoned arrows. If was just the idea of someone saying "Oh no, my liver has been ruptured by an arrow, I will die. Oh, and I also have a very slight case of yew poisoning."
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Date: 2004-08-25 11:45 am (UTC)