It's fun to superheat water in a microwave and then stick a spoon in it. Scares the hell out of most people though, especially those who aren't expecting it.

that's why the boring folks are meant to use a wooden spoon

I was on Kanipali Beach once, it was a little windy and as we were loading the car to leave my little daughters beach ball blew across the beach and into the water. She started screaming so I sprinted across the beach and into the surf. The ball was moving out but it didn't look to be moving too fast. I swam towards the ball and when I looked up and it was just a few meters in front of me. I increased my effort but every time I came up it was just out of reach. I swam furiously and it was still just out of reach. I became determined to get the ball, I felt I couldn't come back with out it so with single minded focus I gave it all I had. I never did get the ball and when I turned back the beach looked like a thin yellow ribbon way off in the distance. I figure I was out there about 45 minutes and when I got back to the beach my wife was livid. I remember her saying " THAT! WAS THE STUPIDEST THING I'VE EVER SEEN IN MY LIFE". And maybe it was because the Beach Ball was free, it was left in the condominium we were renting, but I wanted to be my daughters hero, that's why I kept going. That's worth a lot more than a three dollar beach ball. My wife can never understand stuff like that. She thought I was going to get eaten by a shark (a woman was attacked just the day before on that beach) or that i'd get swept out to sea.





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I can't say I disagree with your wife. A plastic piece of crap is not worth risking one's life for.

My daughter still talks about the time I swam out into the shipping lanes to get her beach ball back.

And would your daughter be talking about it so happily if you had been injured or died during that adventure? If it had turned out badly, how guilty do you think she would have felt over it?

I think this is a male thing... my husband has been doing some DIY lately and always waits till I have gone to work to go climbing on the roof!

I was snorkeling out there all morning so I really don't see the difference, and to be honest I was the one who dropped the ball.

Thanks for helping flush out our serial troll, folks. He's gone now.

I think this is fair enough. A main feature of a beach ball is that it is light and can be kicked around easily. Everyone knows what kind of force you can apply when you want to have a good kick of a beach ball. To take something as dense as concrete and disguise it as something that's light, full of air and fun to kick is asking for trouble IMHO.

Edit: I didn't actually see one of these so don't know how convincing the 'disguise' was.

Edit #2: I belong to the category of people most likely to be injured by these...