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“The Chair Company” allows us to see how anyone might fall down the chutes into which Robinson’s Joe Average easily slides.

“Someone might have stolen my spot because they ran down a 3,000-meter ski chute where gravity is helping you,” he said.

In a mistake that the rigger would not discover until later, they included a dummy chute that would not open.

When the signal came, one line of pallets raced down the hold’s railing, their chutes ripping open in a flurry of motion as they fell out of the back, one after another.

At tonight’s rodeo, Maureen and Dominick’s names are called and their parents hand them up to the platform next to the bull chutes, which rodeo hands have stuffed with bawling sheep.