Took a terrible gravel road to reach Skydive Dallas slightly before the reporting time of 10:30 AM. The place and the staff seemed nice enough. The class was all right too and ended at 11:30 AM. And then came the wait. 5 hour delay due to weather, and for some reason the solo jumpers kept getting preference over tandem jumpers, so they were jumping multiple times while we waited for hours for our tuen. Long story short, what was supposed to be a quick jump after the class turned into a long wait and I was finally called in to gear up to skydive at 3:30 PM. The instructor was an airhead (pun intended) with over 14k jumps, and apparently lost his humility in the sky somewhere. He was rude from the beginning. After jumping from the aircraft and soon after freefall when the parachute deployed, he proceeded to yell at me about holding on to some buckle that would have released us both from the parachute (umm .. why the hell would you put a buckle in reach of a paranoid first time student in
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