This week, The Shallow End opens the mailbag—and apparently our listeners have been making questionable decisions all over the world.
First, a listener in Germany discovers that noise-canceling earbuds work perhaps a little too well when a forgotten pot of rice bursts into flames. Then an innocent RV hookup mistake turns into one of the most horrifying sewage-related experiences ever submitted to the show. There are unfortunate names, childhood attempts to become part tiger shark, a geography lesson involving the surprising location of Alaska, and an encounter with poison ivy that ends with a very unusual doctor’s recommendation.
But the centerpiece may be an Arizona hiking trip that becomes a master class in escalating bad decisions: an 80-pound backpack, brutal sunburn, an unfortunately placed tent, dozens of wasp stings, tequila, a mysterious bagel thief, a badly gashed foot, and some improvised wilderness surgery involving mint-flavored dental floss.
It’s a special listener-mail edition of The Shallow End, proving once again that our audience doesn’t merely visit the shallow end.
Some of you appear to have taken up permanent residence.
Listen now—and please, make good choices. Your life might depend on it.
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