Fearless pensioner plunges down water slide in hilarious video
A fearless frail pensioner is refusing to present in to outdated age after sharing a hilarious video of himself plunging down a water slide at a preferred vacation spot.
Daredevil Bob Carter, a retired gross sales consultant from Sleaford, Lincolnshire, was eager to show that life doesn’t need to decelerate after retirement.
So he entered and gained a contest hosted by TUI UK, bagging himself the title of ‘First Time Senior Slider’, along with his prize a visit to Turkey to have the expertise of a lifetime at their Ali Bey Club Splashworld resort – together with jetting down an enormous, winding slide on an inflatable ring.
He took his granddaughter Lois, aged 9, daughter Jane, 41, son-in-law Toby, 49, and Toby’s aunt Natalie, 55 with him on the journey and was chosen from tons of of thrill-seeking over 60s entries after sharing his story.
Describing his thrilling trip down the large winding slide he defined: “I was a bit nervous beforehand as I’ve never done anything like that before.
“I needed to point out those that age doesn’t matter and that even if you’re as outdated as me, you may nonetheless do issues like this. I additionally needed to point out my granddaughter Lois that I might do it and make her happy with me.”
The video shows the granddad about to hit the slide before whizzing down and after many twists and turns, he emerges from the water with a smile from ear-to-ear, saying: “I loved that!”
The keen traveller and crossword fanatic later added: “The closest factor I’ve finished to that was a helterskelter I went on years in the past, however that was nothing just like the waterslide.
“When my daughter told me she had put my name forward for the First Time Senior Slider competition I thought maybe she was trying to get rid of me! But it was fun. I might go on it again tomorrow now!”
Granddaughter Lois admitted at first she nearly needed to cowl her eyes as her close to octogenarian granddad heading off down the water run.
But she added: “Seeing granddad come out of the tunnel into the water was really funny. He was brilliant. He did look a bit nervous beforehand, but I’m really happy he went ahead with it.”
www.tui.co.uk launched the competitors to rejoice the centenary of the waterslide, a treasured component of household sunshine breaks.
In conjunction with the competitors, TUI UK additionally carried out analysis to find why only a few over 60’s courageous the waterslide.
The ballot revealed one quarter (25 per cent) of 1,000 ‘senior’ Brits have by no means been down a waterslide, regardless of nearly 9 in ten (88 per cent) over 60’s feeling ‘young at heart’.
Richard Sofer, industrial director at TUI UK&I, mentioned: “Seeing Bob’s smile as he went down our Splashworld waterslide is what it’s all about for us here at TUI.
“We had been thrilled to make Bob our official First Time Senior Slider and provides him, and his household, an exquisite reminiscence to speak about for years to return.
“The moral of the story is you are never ‘too old’ to give something a go.”