The Pole Vault?

  There's an old rockabilly song called Too Much Fun.  It has the line ,"There ain't a lot of things, I never done. I never had too much fun."
    I recently made the acquaintance of a couple of pole vaulters. You might ask where does one meet such people. You're at a bar or a cocktail party and the ineveitable question of "What do you do?" comes up. How often have you gotten the response, "I'm a pole vaulter." ?  Indeed. Suffice it to say that I met these guys, and it wasn't some kind of weird code word for something else. They do in fact pole vault.
   When I was a lad there always seemed to be long substantial chunks of bamboo around . I think they used to come inside rolled rugs.( not some weird code words either) Pole vaulting seemed like something we all wanted to give a try. I guess some men just follow their dreams.