Kent,
The only time I may have snookered my youngest son was with that pucker factor.
In HS and in college he was a ski instructor. He was an adrenalin junky. At the ski resort where he worked, he was one of 2 allowed to teach aerials. When skiing with him the first time, I had him clear me in the air.
He called me up one day from San Antonio. "Dad....I hope you don't mind....I applied to the air force to be a pilot"
My reply "That's okay son....if you want to be a 2nd class pilot"....
His immediate comeback "What do you mean 2nd class pilot?!@#$%^&*
My reply "Son I was 15 when I flew and landed a single engine air plane on a 10,000' runway. That's 2 miles long. Let's make it 1200' long, 200' wide..it is doing 30 knots into a 30 knot wind...it's rolling, pitching, yawing and you have a hook on your butt and there 4 wires down there but just in case, you are gonna land full throttle and flaps so that if you would miss the wires, you might come around and try again. And.......God forbid! that the sun gets down before you do!"
He called me up a few weeks later....."Dad...I've applied to the Navy to be a pilot!"
If nothing else....those Navy pilots have courage....I helped train a few during the '70s.
Ken
So much to learn, so little time.....