Today's Very Important Life Lesson:
Aug. 1st, 2011 10:42 am![[personal profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/silk/identity/user.png){kind=small}
treefrogIf you think the current up ahead looks a bit on the strong side, trust your judgment on this. Don't wait for your point to be proven by an overturned canoe, a terrifying dunking, and a miserable stint clinging to a reed bank up against a bridge pier, getting in touch with your inner drowned rat, waiting for some kindly hikers to fish you out. There are bugs in that water. Slimy ones. And you'll get hit in the mouth when you fall, so you'll find that your inner drowned rat has a speech impediment. None of this is fun!
Honestly, I had it better than my mother. I lost my hat and my glasses. She lost her entire backpack, including her iphone and $2000 worth of camera equipment. No, I don't know why she thought bringing that stuff on a canoe was a good idea.
We're fine, but I can tell you this: if I hadn't been wearing a life vest, I don't know that I would have made it. The current sucked me under so fast I would have been swept away in a heartbeat if I hadn't been clinging to the canoe, which was tangled in the chain of buoys strung across the bridge. I was okay once I hauled myself up onto the reed bank, but holy crap. I don't know how I would have gotten my head above water without that life vest.
Y'know what? I never liked those glasses anyway. Dave's got benefits now, so when I get home, I'm getting new freaking glasses.
Honestly, I had it better than my mother. I lost my hat and my glasses. She lost her entire backpack, including her iphone and $2000 worth of camera equipment. No, I don't know why she thought bringing that stuff on a canoe was a good idea.
We're fine, but I can tell you this: if I hadn't been wearing a life vest, I don't know that I would have made it. The current sucked me under so fast I would have been swept away in a heartbeat if I hadn't been clinging to the canoe, which was tangled in the chain of buoys strung across the bridge. I was okay once I hauled myself up onto the reed bank, but holy crap. I don't know how I would have gotten my head above water without that life vest.
Y'know what? I never liked those glasses anyway. Dave's got benefits now, so when I get home, I'm getting new freaking glasses.
