Attribution: Photo by Johann Noby on Unsplash
By Bill Stokes
Kickass, the doorstop dog, reports the keeper unable to move on from the reflecting pool fiasco because it allows him to wallow in one of his favorite older-cousin memories.
It was when cousin Ed bought the “go anywhere” surplus Army Jeep just after WWII and offered the keeper a demonstration cow-pasture ride. Ed immediately drove into one of the many spring holes along Engle Creek and instantly proved that a Jeep could not go anywhere if it had no bottom for its tires to grab onto.
The Jeep sank totally out of sight, leaving Ed and the keeper showing only their torsos from the chest up, and obviously appearing as if they were posing for a clean-up-the-swamp TV commercial.
Unfortunately, no image of the spring-hole event exists except the one in the keeper’s memory. And as that one gets juggled with the current reflecting pool total fiasco, the keeper passes along the thought to the POTUS that extracting yourself from a damn fool watery move cannot be done with even a hint of dignity, as you are so ably demonstrating, and as Cousin Ed also demonstrated in his struggle to crawl out of the spring hole and go get Uncle Earl’s tractor.
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