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Originally Posted by Displaced Flames fan
I've always thought what a privilege it is to have grown up in the middle of the Rocky Mountains and to have been exposed to nature on a grand scale for many years. You get people who have never been outside of their large metropolitan area in these places and they become instantly stupid. I see it every time I'm back home.
On our way back from Montana this year we (My 12 year old son and I) went through Yellowstone NP. It was his first time, I have been many times. Anyway we were walking along one of the boardwalks in a geyser basin and this lady behind us tells her daughter who looked about 5 years old to jump down off of the boardwalk and "touch that water and see if it's hot". Unbelievable. Fortunately for the mother her stupidity surfaced at a place that didn't boil her daughters fingers off.
Another story, here in Wichita they opened a Gander Mountain store. In case you aren't aware of this retailer, they are an outdoors supply store...hunting, fishing etc. Anyway, they have several nice animal mounts in the store one in particular of a mountain lion over a downed caribou. Some of the people at the post office where I work were talking about how that moose scared them when they walked up on the mount. Baffling to me, but I guess when you don't grow up like I did you wouldn't know a beaver from a muskrat....or a caribou from a moose!
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I can always tell a beaver from a muskrat...