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When I first got out of college in 1987, I went to work for a company that rented a small building on the grounds of the Orange County Airport.

Now, that's not Orange County, California. That's the Orange County Airport in Montgomery, New York. It's just outside of Middletown.

Anyway, the business I have to tell you

had nothing to do with airplanes or flight. They just rented the building there. Basically,

what we did is we sold industrial control equipment that we imported from Japan. And after about

two years of working there, I realized I was going nowhere, and I decided to leave

to become a high school science teacher.

And of course, I did that for 30 years before retiring.

Honestly, there's not a lot to say about the job, but there was one memorable thing that

happened while I worked there, and that was the day that women were literally falling from

the sky.

I am not kidding. Well, maybe I should be a bit more

specific. What there was is there was this large group of women who had come from all over the world to

skydive. And if I remember correctly, their goal was to break the world record for the largest

number of women who join hands while falling from the sky.

Basically, they get in the plane, jump out, join up, and then once they did that, they break apart, open their shoots, and continue their journey down to the ground.

Now, the 23-year-old me, this was a spectacular sight to see, and I'm not referring to all the

women that were falling from the sky.

Instead, I was just amazed by the beauty of a crystal clear blue sky, and it was just filled with

the most colorful parachutes you could ever imagine.

I truly don't remember if they broke the record or not, but I do recall that they had to repeat

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