This Skydiver Went from Near Death to No Injuries
can’t take it: to feel so overwhelmed by something that it becomes too difficult to continue or endure
Craig Stapleton, a skydiver with over 7,000 jumps, is maybe the luckiest man alive. On March 10, 2012, Craig and his teammate Katie Hansen tried a difficult skydiving trick with a large flag. Everything seemed fine at first, but then Craig’s parachute got tangled. He started spinning uncontrollably towards the ground. As he fell, he thought to himself, “Just relax as much as you can, roll with the impact, and exhale.”
Craig crashed into a vineyard, narrowly missing the sharp iron spikes holding up each grape plant. Instead, he landed in soft, freshly plowed dirt, which cushioned his fall. Despite the hard impact, he didn’t break a single bone. He walked out of the hospital after just four hours without any major injuries, but he was bruised and in pain. When his wife tried to give him a hug, he said, “No hug! No hug! I can’t take it.”
Sample sentences
After hours of waiting in line, I just couldn’t take it anymore and decided to leave.
The noise from the construction was so loud that I couldn’t take it and had to move to another room.
The argument was getting so heated that I couldn’t take it and walked out of the room.
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