Ah, the joy of plunging your unsuspecting body into very cold water. Hypothermia here we come. The 2009 OKC Polar Plunge found a double handful of hardy (though stupid) souls on the shore of Lake Hefner at high noon. The Piranas were there of course…
When the call to plunge came Team Pirana rushed into the water in the lead.
Sweet tee went part way in and came right back out. T3 got fully wet and then decided he would rather be fully out of the water. Mav and Samsonite went further in, but Mav didn’t get fully wet before he started back out, so…T3 went BACK IN after him….
Once they had both gone under, they both decided to get out! Samsonite was a different story altogether. Prior to the plunge start there waas talk of making it out to the bouy that marks the end of the ramp. The water there would likely be up to your armpits. So as everyone else is coming out of the water with numb fingers and toes and legs that won’t quite work, Samsonite is heading OUT into deeper water to the bouy.
He was joined by a member of TRI-OKC and the two of them just floated around out there for several minutes. No one was exactly sure how long, but it was long enough. Apparently the two of them made a truce and came in together.
When Samsonite came out of the water he was so cold he couldn’t even talk! For some reason, T3 found this to be incredibly funny…
Samsonite thought it was funny to, but then his brain was frozen, so that is about all that needs to be said about that.
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Samsonite stayed out that long for two reasons. First, he is used to the cold showers cadets at West Point are required to take to keep them under “control”. Second, that is the most intense feeling he has ever had near a girl and since he did not know how to interpret it he just stayed out until that feeling went away, or in his case became painfully numb and froze.
Get back to work, Mav…