I jump over things at work all the time.
Outside of work, I maybe jump a handful of times a month, and half of those are to see on top of things.
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Every work day. I’m almost tall enough to check the top shelf while conditioning the store and can’t be assed to find whoever took my departments stepstool.
My most recent non-work jump was trying to train my dog to jump and hoping she would emulate me. It didn’t work.
Nearly every day. My driveway slopes down and there is a retaining wall that runs along it. Whenever I come home from walking the dog I jump up on the start of the wall and walk up it, instead of going up the stairs. It's only about 3 feet high.at that point, so I could take a giant step, but I like to jump up on it.
I'm 45 years old, BTW
I jumped over a puddle on the sidewalk a week ago
Did some light parkour yesterday trying to catch a train.
Friday, jump rope
I jump a lot, I like to run around and jump while I wait for stuff
Probably yesterday? I jump up and climb anywhere I can. Idk if it's just the autism but my brain has always been pretty much like "that's the shortest path, so what if I have to jump over something"
probably like two months ago. I'm a mail carrier and there was this brick divider between two houses that would have taken a long time to walk around it so I jumped that shit
Been a minute. Im short but my tip toe game is incredible full ballerina. I do lil hop to enter the stance tho, so earlier today. I am weirdly buff in muscles that people dont work out wirh but I have needed personally. My legs are like that of those mgs4 walkers and I have medically weird grip strength
jump a lot tbh, it's a part of my "dance and jump around outside a bit while listening to tunes in the sun every day" anti-depression aktion
don't really do like full practical jumps often tho really, i think i had to jump over a puddle like two months ago i guess? and ofc short hops on and off of curbs and shit i guess
"dance and jump around outside a bit while listening to tunes in the sun every day" anti-depression aktion
Sounds like fun!
yeah it's fun and helpful, I probably look like the joker doing it but what can you do lmao 
Every time i take the kiddo to dance class. He's supposed to jump to but he always leaves me hanging.
Kids love watching adults exhaust themselves 
Yesterday when my partner told me not to jump on an elevator so I jumped off the elevator
Nooo please don't jump in or out of elevators it's actually unsettling im w your partner on this one
I jump in elevators all the time, although I don't do with when other people are inside.
It's fun, it's not like an elevator with a 2000lb weight capacity is gonna break from a 160lb person jumping
They undergo more force when accelerating than when one person hops in them
Nobody said it's a rational fear, it's unsettling is all. I generally dislike lifts and will take stairs when I can
I used to be a little bit more unsettled by elevators until I learned how they work. Those things are built to such insane standards that I now feel safer in them than on a 5ft staircase. I don't think I could be less unsettled by being somewhere aside from my literal bed.
Maybe I should learn more about them. I used to have recurring nightmares of being in a plummeting elevator (not helped by the fact it's a trope in so many action movies and games). I guess it's like vertical thalassophobia in some ways too, like it's the same fear of the void underneath, but also the thought that you're separated from it by just a few feet of metal. At least in the ocean you can swim. Then, add the vertigo, air pressure discomfort and related fear of heights/ledges/precipices ("I'm heading up to a place where I'll be uncomfortable/afraid") means that the ascent is scary and the destination sucks. Also small enclosed space. I have been stuck in elevators twice, once for just a few minutes the other time for about half an hour... All around, do not enjoy them.
I mean the elevator had completely come to a stop so it was fine
when I get excited or when I’m energetic I jump around my room, so literally a couple minutes ago
That's nice :) i wish i had that kind of ebullient energy
Often cos am short
Nearly every day at work, jumping up stairs and over puddles and such. Vertical jumped at home recently to grab something from a high place. I'm pretty much a daily jumper
Don't do that at work. You won't get comp if you get hurt if they csn find a way out.
I see a low ceiling i jump and smack it, so thursday.
Understandable!
An eon. The older you get - the far less you jump.
The first time I heard that I was so very young. The album had just come out. It was ~40 years ago. I took it so personally - as young people do for creative stuff they love. I was driving along by myself and almost said "What is this fucking garbage!" out loud. And my thoughts continued "This is fucking awful! Fuck this shit! Fuck David Lee Roth!..." and yet more swearing. I was so angry listened to the whole song. It was a real hate listen even though that term was decades away.
I can't say I have strong feelings about the song either way, it's from before my time. I wonder if there's any that will make me feel similar down the track
My strong feelings were because I was young and I thought of Van Halen as "my" band. Eddie was often depressed so his lyrics could be (very) dark. The songs on the album Fair Warning (1981) are examples. David Lee Roth wanted Van Halen to be far more of a party band. He didn't want to sing songs like Mean Street from that album. In any case - I've never googled but I've always assumed Jump was 100% David Lee relentlessly pushing and telling the band that as a radio friendly pop song it that would be a hit. And it sure was.
It is Van Halen's most successful single, reaching number 1 on the US Billboard Hot 100.
But Eddie pushed David Lee out of the band in 1985. Funnily enough - David Lee was replaced by somebody even more interested in money and radio friendly crap: Sammy Hagar. I think Hagar's musical interests have only been three things: money, fame, and women. The band had their first Van Hagar era. 1984 was the band's last really good album and the band never nearly as good again. That's a shame but that's how it goes.
I found a YouTube link in your comment. Here are links to the same video on alternative frontends that protect your privacy:
I'm always shredding sick jumps on my bike yo
Pretty recently, like three or four days.
I walk a trail with my dog pretty regularly which goes past a little seasonal brook, and we've had enough rain recently that it's running, so I've hopped over it. She of course just leaps right in.
Today, when I literally leaped out of bed, as I am wont to do. But in general, I'd say I jump pretty often because it's fun! Definitely recommend skipping if you haven't in a while, it's damn near impossible to feel sad while skipping.
Something I used to do as a kid was routinely jump down entire flights of stairs and land sprawled out in comical slapstick fashion. Definitely don't trust myself these days not to sprain my ankle (or worse).
I jumped down ten steps as a young adult and twisted my ankle. It was not fun. Didn't get back full range of motion until about two years later
Today at the gym I jump roped. I started boxing so I'm tryna build up my stamina. But I usually jump every time I go to the gym so I can stay mobile as I get older.
Often because I want to avoid stepping on something or because of all the construction work that never ends and the there might be hazards. I jump in my house too sometimes out of need like putting/pulling a box up somewhere out of reach. There is always something.
I jump in my house too sometimes out of need like putting/pulling a box up somewhere out of reach
Interesting. I've got like two step stools and one small step shelf/ladder-y thing for putting stuff up in high places. I don't trust myself to not drop stuff or not land awkwardly
I don't think I have ever dropped anything or had any sort of accidents from it but that is probably because I was a bit too hyperactive when I was a kid and that sort of stuff is probably just practice from then. Some of the things I did as a kid haunts me when I try to recall memories of my childhood because of how dangerous it was 
Yesterday. I brought my knees as high as I could to see if I could still do it without hurting myself. I was surprisingly okay! 
every day but my toddler likes to do dance moves they see on the tv box
A few weeks ago, after seeing the trend of people jumping and not be able to. Had to confirm I could.
Damn near hit my head.
Back in January. My doorbell hadn't worked in years til a delivery worker rang it. I jumped out of shock, banged my head on a doorframe and gave myself a concussion.
I jump pretty often when I'm playing with my dog.
But I jump every day when he's asleep at my feet and I decide to stand up. I'll calculate where to put my foot to safely step over him and he'll jerk awake and inevitably end up exactly where I'm putting my foot down and I have to air dash to save both of us.
I dunno, been like 20 years or something lol
That's quite a while. Do you remember why you would have last jumped?