week, and we had to earn our ability to play with the parachute with good behavior.  I was so stressed to get the chance, and also freaking out a bit because I thought we might go up in a plane and drop out.  All the other kids were talking like this was a real possibility.

No, they just meant unfolding a parachute in a gym and standing around it in a circle, and everyone holding it and waving it up and down - supposedly for fun.

Big letdown, as well as a relief.