Irrelevant story: several decades ago, a few of us were at Griffith Observatory, up on a roof balcony, when one guy we were with started talking about how his life was shit and so on. Then he ran to the rail and jumped.
There was another level just a few feet below, out of sight to the rest of us, but known to him, that he landed on. He played it very well. Had a good laugh at our expense.
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