I have had many embarrassing moments in my lifetime but this is one of the recent one. We were on a white water rafting trip on the Ocoee River in Eastern Tennessee. We had already been on a very exciting trip going through many drop offs and rapids that had adrenaline pumping bigtime. We were coming up on one of the last big drop offs when the helmsman ask “ who wants to ride the bull”. I had know idea what he was referring to but instinctively my hand flew up, because I am a chronic volunteer

I was suppose to sit on the bow of the raft as we went over the last big drop off. I was sitting there legs over the front of the bow and holding onto some ropes that were attached. When the moment came and the bow dropped off the fall, I was met by this wall of water that hit me in the chest and then I was airborne. When all the water settled i was laying in a girls lap in the back of the raft belly down. Everyone got a big laugh as I was fumbling trying to get out of her lap and back to my place with the raft churning.

I know that it took much less that 8 seconds for that bull to throw me but it seem like an eternity for me to get out that girls lap.