Firewalking
Firewalking at Cort's Halloween Party
Firewalking at Cort's Halloween Party. Halloween
1999, Cort Dougan decided to
try out firewalking. After my initial reaction of "You're nuts!", the
idea grew on me and I determined to try firewalking also, along with
several other foolhardy young people.
Why did I do it? Curiousity, I
suppose. I've read a couple of articles about people firewalking and I
wanted to find out for myself. Since we're a bunch of science geeks,
we didn't try to put any spiritual spin on the thing. Physics is
physics, and my spiritual whatchamawhoosit has nothing to do with
whether I burn my feet or not.
So is firewalking for real? Yeah,
but it's really no big deal. Please don't attempt to do this at home,
based on what I say here, but if you prepare the coals properly, it's
not very challenging. They're just not that hot. Walk at a
reasonably speedy pace and try not to get any coals stuck between your
toes and that's it. I ended up with two tiny burns on one foot - I
think. I couldn't see them, but they felt different from the rest of
my foot. Stepping on to the wet cold blanket at the
end was much more painful than the firewalking.
Photographic "Proof." Photos of
people firewalking didn't convince me that it could be done (that's
the whole reason I did firewalk - I wanted to prove it myself), but
here's some for your edification. You can't see it because of the
camera flash, but the coals are glowing red in places.
The Death of My Toaster
My toaster
broke a couple of days before the party. The little resistor that
moderates the temperature of the wires broke, so I figured that
burning Pop-Tarts in it would be in keeping with the theme for the
rest of the party. I discovered how puny my ambitions were when the
white gas came out... and the toaster dancing started...
Burning toaster
Toaster dancing
Hudston and Cort seem very gleeful.
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