just loosen your shirt a little...

So last night I went to "Home Group" - once a month the students split into groups and go to the homes of different staff people for dinner and dessert and to play games and such. Last night I went to my favorite professor's place, Scott Pitsch. We ate some caribou lasagna and corn souffle and settled in for a game of Worst Case Scenario. The gist of it is that you are given a scenario and then you're given three options, a, b or c, to get out of the situation and you pick the best one depending on what each option is. They could all be correct, you just pick which one's the best. We split up in teams: Scott and Sarah and I; Louisa, Andrea, and Mikala; Trinity, Cameron and Lindsey. It's my team's turn and Krista, Scott's wife, reads the card:

To best prepare for a plane crash into water you should, a - loosen your shirt a little and prepare for two jolts, one when the nose hits and one when the tail hits; b - put your hand on your seatbelt so that when the plane hits you're ready to get out since there's limited time to evacuate; or c - protect your head from windows breaking under the pressure of the water.

We discuss it amongst ourselves and decide that c is probably the best, who wants little shards of glass imbedded in your head when you're trying to escape from a plane crash in the middle of a large body of water before it sinks? Well, we were wrong. The answer is a - just loosen your shirt a little. Good to know. When I am in a plane crash all I need to remember is to loosen my shirt and I will be fine. "Attention passengers, this is your Pilot speaking. We regret to inform you that we will have to make a crash landing into water. Please loosen your shirts." What does that mean?