The Catalyst

By Mike McGhghy, Reporter

Bed jumping, personally defined as the art of making family vacations fun again; bed jumping is a “pass time” for those who are bored in their hotel rooms and have absolutely nothing better to do. One FMHS student says, “I love jumping on beds especially in hotel rooms because they are extra bouncy!” This hobby or pass time has blossomed from a childish thing in the 1950’s to a full blown internet phenomenon today. People pose pictures of themselves bouncing on the beds doing seemingly outrageous stunts some looking like their flying some looking like their meditating and floating off the ground and some even doing tandem stunts together. There is an entire website dedicated to hosting the pictures of said adventures, bed-jump.com has a whole host of pictures of people flying off their bed to and fro across a hotel room. “It is a revitalizing blast from the past” says another high school student, “bringing back memories of jumping on the bed as a kid jumping on the bed just as soon as mom and dad turned the light off and left the room.”

So to all of you who long for those days of innocence, of childhood, of staying up late and watching Scooby-Doo reruns, next time your in a hotel room, wait till your parents leave and take the good ol’ bed(s) for a nice long bouncy ride.