LIFE

This Is What Happens When People Cheer For Each Other

You may end up in the Guinness book of records, or you’ll just be a part of something truly amazing

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Recently, I had the opportunity to do something wild and weird.

I hadn’t done something this random since my travel blogging days, when I’d wake up in a different country, eat a normal breakfast, and by lunchtime, find myself in an underground cave so obscure that if I had died, nobody would’ve found the body.

You just can’t make this kind of stuff up.

Here’s how it happened and why it turned into one of the most worthwhile human experiences to participate in.

I found a curious Facebook post in a former coworker’s feed. Her post read something like this:

“Is anyone free tomorrow from 3:30 to 5:30? My friend, Pineapple Hoops, is competing for a Guinness world record in hula hooping with her bum. She needs a stranger to attend as an impartial witness to sign off when she’s done.”

First of all, you will NEVER see that Facebook status again.

I felt in my bones that I needed to be this stranger, if for no other reason than to see what hula-hooping with a bum looks like. So, I sent a…