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Mon 25 Jun, 2007 05:00 am
My son in law is generally very fussy about his things. At the mere suggestion of dirt on his Jeep, he's off with it to the car wash. Except when he goes mudding in it. Then, the damn thing can be so covered, it's impossible to guess the color. He lets it stay like that a couple of days, being proud of the great time they had together.
Yesterday evening, he mudded into a bog so deep, he got trapped. For good. He spent hours putting bricks and wood in there, in hopes it would give enough traction to move, but nothing helped. In the end, he left it. Only divine intervention, or at least a wrecker, is ever moving that thing. I wonder if he will go mudding again. He always was a good mudder, until now. Now, I'm not so sure.
His father was a mudder.
He ended paying a wrecker driver $85. It was that cheap, only because my son in law got down in the mud to do the attachment. It would have been somewhat over a hundred, if the other fella did that part.
Like father, like son. He must have have had a real bonding experience with his Dad doing that activity.
Of course, another way of looking at it is that a fool and his money, will soon be parted!
You can buy spray on mud. Specially for urban warriors. Considerably less than $85.00.
Not that I defend the practice, but it reminds him of that excitement and whackiness of what he did when he mudded. Prob'ly also reminds him of when he did this same stuff with his Dad. It's his badge of courage and his fraternity. It wouldn't be the same thing if he sprayed on the mud... a reflection on his integrity.
Erosion and sediment control should be an aim for us all.
"Mudding"
Once they invent a special name for it, you can be sure that it's lost whatever status it might once have had.
Another fascinating glimpse of differences of opinions in the Men's Lodge.
He was newly reunited with his oldest son, from another marriage, and he took the boy mudding. As you say, the bonding thing.
New details: The wrecker driver wanted $185 if he had to connect the Jeep to the wrecker tow line, because, as he pointed out, the vehicle was ensconced in septic sewage. For $85 he allowed the son in law to do the dirty work. s-i-l: "No more mudding, ever."
He would've paid that much, if he had to. He started a new job today, and that's his transportation.
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