My Jacked Up Life

Here in St. Louis we have something called the River Des Pere. It’s a man-made canal that runs through part of the city and empties into the Mississippi…..I still have to sing that little song when I write that….M-I-crooked letter-crooked letter-I. 

It holds the over flow from heavy rains and sewers. Yes, that’s right……it holds shit. There are times, like right now, when it’s dry because there hasn’t been much rain here as of late, but other times it can get pretty high.

One day Gene and I were driving by and we saw this guy parked next to  a ramp that runs along side of it. This caught our attention because it’s illegal to go down there. It’s also dangerous because you don’t know when it’s going to start filling up. Anyhoo…..we noticed that this guy also had a kayak sticking out of the back of his SUV. At the same time we both said, ‘Oh, hell no…..he isn’t going down there!’

We were wrong….he did. I told Gene to turn the car around so I could take pictures of him. I immediately heard him grumbling something about my ‘damn blog’. 

The funny thing about this is that the guy saw me taking pictures of him and looked at me like I was stupid. He’s floating down a man-made canal filled with the shit from thousands of households and I’m the stupid one?

Don’t think so pal!!!

Let’s think about the reality of this for a moment…..he’s floating along with turds in this kayak, then he’s going to put his hands on the kayak to put it back into his fairly new SUV…..hope he’s at least smart enough to ride with the windows down. That could be a long, stinky ride home!!! LOL