_RainFire_'s SECOND Book of Random!

111. Between a Rock and a Hard Place

So, I read this book called 'Between a Rock and a Hard Place' by Aron Ralston and it's pretty good. It's about a guy who got stuck in a small, isolated canyon during a canyoneering accident, trapped his right arm between a boulder and the wall of the canyon, and survived 127 hours there before amputating his right arm with his non-dominant hand and hiking about 7 miles before managing to get help from a few people and a passing helicopter.

Talk about difficult...

The picture *hopefully* in the media is the cover.

Well, here's something that happened a few days ago...

Paul and one of his friends were trying to figure out how they could be twins and one of the comparisons was that they both had hands. They were like 'We're the only ones with hands! You don't have hands, do you *assistant/student teacher's name*?'

I held up the book after the assistant/student teacher (he's a student that helps the teacher) jokingly replied something about not having hands and I said, "This guy doesn't have two hands."

Then Paul said, "No, he has one hand and an instrument of death."

I think you all re-checked the picture to look at the 'instrument of death,' a.k.a. prosthetic arm. Thank you xD

And don't take it the wrong way, I actually know a guy whose limb was blown off in the Army and has a prosthetic... Just that this prosthetic is for climbing and looks evil.