Book contents
- Buzz!
- Buzz!
- Copyright page
- Dedication
- Contents
- Preface: My Fascination with Thrill
- Acknowledgments
- 1 What is Sensation-Seeking
- 2 Born to Be Wild
- 3 Faster, Hotter, Louder: The Everyday Life of a High Sensation-Seeker
- 4 Lights, Camera, Action: Sports and Adventure in High Sensation-Seeking
- 5 What About Your Friends: The Relationships of High Sensation-Seekers
- 6 All in a Day’s Work
- 7 The Dark Side of High Sensation-Seeking
- 8 Super Power or Super Problem
- Conclusion
- Book part
- Inventory of Notes
- Index
5 - What About Your Friends: The Relationships of High Sensation-Seekers
Published online by Cambridge University Press: 14 October 2019
- Buzz!
- Buzz!
- Copyright page
- Dedication
- Contents
- Preface: My Fascination with Thrill
- Acknowledgments
- 1 What is Sensation-Seeking
- 2 Born to Be Wild
- 3 Faster, Hotter, Louder: The Everyday Life of a High Sensation-Seeker
- 4 Lights, Camera, Action: Sports and Adventure in High Sensation-Seeking
- 5 What About Your Friends: The Relationships of High Sensation-Seekers
- 6 All in a Day’s Work
- 7 The Dark Side of High Sensation-Seeking
- 8 Super Power or Super Problem
- Conclusion
- Book part
- Inventory of Notes
- Index
Summary
Cindy was pretty excited when the guy she’d been dating for the last few months offered to fly her to Texas to visit her relatives. After all, she’d never been in a single-engine airplane before. The trip from Illinois to Texas would take a while. Single-engine airplanes fly considerably slower than commercial ones. Instead of zooming at 540 miles per hour you putter along at around 80, albeit in a mostly straight line.
During the long flight she peppered Tom with questions. “You know, the way you do when you’re getting to know somebody and learning about what they’re interested in,” she explained.
Hours later Tom tapped her on the shoulder. Cindy was surprised. “I figured we were nearly there, except I looked down, and all I saw was water. I didn’t know what we were doing out over open water. He had pulled us out over the Gulf of Mexico and lowered our altitude a bit. ‘We’re clearly not going to land there,’ I thought.” Then Tom does the unthinkable, he stalls the plane – deliberately. “We’re in a single-engine plane over the ocean and he stalls it!” she explained with panic in her voice.
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- Buzz!Inside the Minds of Thrill-Seekers, Daredevils, and Adrenaline Junkies, pp. 93 - 113Publisher: Cambridge University PressPrint publication year: 2019