Can't we just lower it?

I was standing on the top of a cliff worrying about just how I was going to survive this jump. It took me back to when I had agreed to this thing back in the summer. I was terribly nervous becuase it was my first day at "Big School" and I was trying to make freinds so I made a deal with the bullies. I didn't know they were bullies so I struck the deal to jump of a cliff with a parachute...it was too high... I thought that it was a funny joke but it wasn't. I jumped.