Avoiding Evil

It’s funny how one thing leads to another. I wanted some new truck mats ever since I bought the truck. After a little over a year I decide to go ahead and get these expensive mats that hold in the dirt water, and mud, keeping dirt from destroying your carpet. It was also good timing since I was leaving on a hunting trip. For the trip Kendall gets us guys a bunch of cookies, chips, crackers, and soda. She places the soda and a couple frozen bags of water in this little travel cooler from Subway. From this point on I will refer to it as the TCFH (travel cooler from hades). I throw all my stuff in the truck, set my bookbag in the floor in front of the back seat and stick the TCFH in the back as well and we venture off on our 8 hour journey to south Arkansas. On the way the baggies melt, both of them spring a leak and seep out of the TCFH. The only place that the water has to go is on my new truck mats, you know the ones that “hold everything in.” Since the mats are rubber the water forms a pool looking for a place to go. Lucky enough this pool of water found shelter in my bookbag. 8 Hours and 24 oz of water later my book bag has soaked up its maximum capacity which included all of my seminary books, my HCS Bible, my hebrew cards, my Primos turky hunting DVD, some youth permission slips, and my iPod. We tried to dry up what we could. I was impressed with the iPods ability to sit in a puddle of soaking water for 8 hours and still work perfectly. I had one book that took the blunt of the attack with every page soaking up a large amount of water. When I picked it up and squeezed water poured out of it like I was squeezing a wet sponge. That happened 10 days ago and the book is still damp on the inside.

Moral of the story: Don’t get your TCFH from Subway and fill it with zip lock bags full of ice. We must remember folks: water/ice/water + TCFH from Subway = leakage x new mats = pool + bookbag = 2 hours of blow drying each individual page of your new thinline Bible. Please inform Subway that they can keep their free cooler.