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I'm sure I deserve partial credit. I was in a bad place mentally back then so I did a lot of stupid and inconsiderate things I regret. But I'm also now with someone who wouldn't walk away from me even when I am being an idiot because they care about my safety, so I learned a lot of lessons since then.

I went with my ex to a local waterfall once. It was pretty dry, so I wanted to explore the top of the falls a bit since it's normally not accessible. It's very flat up there, and I kept back from the edge since I don't like heights anyway, but she got mad at me for being up there since she didn't feel comfortable coming out with me.

So a couple minutes later, I'm done poking about, and I turn around and she's nowhere to be seen. Now I'm worried she went over the side and something happened to her. I started looking over the edge of the hill leading up to the falls and trying to see if she's down there, but there was enough water to still be spraying the rocks. My foot slides out on a wet patch, and now I'm falling down the rock face!

I crashed off at least 3 ledges on my way down, and was flipping over and trying to grab onto things to catch myself, but there was nothing but rock and moss, but I finally come to a stop. I have no clue how I didn't die or break anything. It was one of the scariest moments of my life. After I checked on my own life, I saw she wasn't there, so I made my way to the car. She was there just being annoyed.

She seemed to think I deserved it for not listening to her for saying it was dangerous, while it was not the activity I was doing that led to me falling, but that I thought I needed to be looking for her after she disappeared without saying she was going to the car. I don't think she must have realized it was not just one rock I fell off of, but probably at least 10+ feet of rock, but needless to say I wasn't very appreciative of her lack of concern. I was just grateful to be alive at that point. I was sore for a few days and had some bruises that lasted a couple months. Was I a jerk? I don't feel so, but I don't believe remote places in the outdoors are the place to put arguments ahead of everyone's safety either way. If I would have gotten hurt badly, who knows how long she would have sat there before looking for me.

It's a service I am more than glad to provide!

Sorry little fella, we only had adult legs in stock...

That's where their USB port is. They've finally switched them all to Type C. No more trying to remember if beak up or beak down is the right direction, but either way, you always had to try to plug it in 3 times.

I'd be curious to hear from any cat people who don't enjoy owls. They seem very much cut from the same cloth...

How OP do we need them?! 😜

You think that bee sounds like a lawnmower when it's that close up to the owl or that their brains can normalize the audio on things like that? 🤔

More people seem to like the Great Grey up close than when you can see the whole thing. Very interesting! 😅

Hah, I basically pictured the same thing. It's probably safe to assume most of us are much more familiar with grocery store eggs rather than ones serving their intended purpose, so we think shell, whites, yolk, and maybe that little white stringy thing. But it makes sense it's got to be much more complex if that actually is getting turned into a fully developed bird baby. There's got to be a lot more stuff going on inside. It's something I'll have to learn more about. The more I learn about birds, the more alien they seem!