The Skydiving Lesson

A skydiving instructor was teaching a skydiving course trying to get students ready to learn the basics of skydiving. After he was finished with his lecture one day, he took a few minutes at the end of the class to answer any questions, as he always did. Calling on a young man who had his hand in the air, the young man asked, “If after our jump, our chute doesn’t open, and our reserve doesn’t open, how long do we have until we hit the ground?”

The instructor didn’t miss a beat and looking at the young man with a dead-pan expression, he said, “The rest of your life.”