Adversity | Humor | Trial

WHEN EVERYTHING GOES WRONG
A young soldier was learning to parachute. He was given the following instructions: (A) Jump when you are told; (B) Count ten and pull the ripcord; (C) In the very unlikely event that it doesn’t open, pull the second chute open; (D) When you get down a truck will take you back to the base. The plane got up to the proper height, the men started peeling out and he jumped when told. He counted ten, pulled the cord, but the chute failed to open. He proceeded to the back-up plan — pulled the cord of the second chute. It, too, failed to open. “And I suppose,” he complained to himself, “the truck won’t be there either when I get down.”