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Aristus

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2. I did that, too.
Fri Jun 24, 2016, 11:01 AM
Jun 2016

I was on a trip there with my brother. The safety notation posted by the glass floor stated that it could support a weight equivalent to 15 hippopotamusses. We both laughed and imagined some animal wranglers perching hippos on the floor. When it collapses after 16 hippos, sending the poor animals to their doom, the engineers calmly note down on their clipboards: "Fifteen. Okay, fifteen."

The posted assurance did nothing to suppress the butterflies I felt while walking across that thing...

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