[wheresmyusa]

I’m doubting he fell down a flight of steps on purpose; but that does suck. =)

On another tangent, i wanted to be a fighter pilot since i was 8 years old, probably before that. It was just something i felt i was meant to do... and at 13 i had my eyes checked and was basically told i could never qualify. I remember it vividly; i’m not saying it’s the same, i never could, but it was like being told you’d never walk again. It wasn’t reality, but at the time that’s how i felt.

~W

[Jotmo]

Wow.

I had a similar experience.

I always wanted to be a fighter pilot. Took all the collage prep and highest level classes in HS that I could so I could go to collage and then OCS for the Navy or AF.

Then, my Junior year of HS, I was told the same thing, due to my eyesight, I could not be a pilot in the US Military.

I dropped all my hard classes and just skated through the rest of HS. I did wind up joining the AF and was an A-10 Crew Chief.

[real saxophonist]

My opthamologist said my vision was 20/20, and should be until I was 50. With that confidence a few years later, I was a Marine Corps Aviation Officer Candidate. Went to the OSO in Marietta, and they sent me to the MEPS in Atlanta for the initial physical.

Everything was fine until the eye test. I had never worn glasses, and the Navy doctor told me I needed glasses.

Devastated, I go home and see my opthamologist (former Air Force Flight Surgeon), and he says yes, things have changed and you do need glasses.

So I decided to enlist as a musician instead.

[GingisK]

Can you see the shift key? ;-D