HERE'S MUD IN YOUR EYE!
Keith Taylor is a long-time on-line buddy who lives in Chula Vista, CA. Da Rev had the pleasant experience of having him as editor for some articles I submitted to a quality, ambitious, but, alas, now-defunct magazine called Atheist Nation.
Da Rev and a lot of other folks have been called "dirty atheists", but this guy, who calls himself Dipsey Dumpster in on-line atheist forums, gives new meaning to the term. Keith Taylor is a 70-sumpin' retired naval officer whose idea of fun involves running in 10K marathons and triathalons.
Keith says, "The Marines hold a mud run each year. It's a 10-K
that's filled with obstacles. I ran it on assignment for the Auto Club
magazine (and another article for Navy Times). The final obstacle was
this mud pit, 35 yards long. The runners had to crawl under a series of
wires suspended a few inches above the goo. Everybody ended up covered
with the stuff. I actually washed a huge glob of mud out of my eye." Hence the title of the piece, "HERE'S MUD IN YOUR EYE" and the accompanying photo.
Keith's
narration describes the "10-K (6.2 mile run) up and down steep hills
and over walls six-feet high. They'd crawled through streams, real and
imaginary, and slithered through mud holes so large a pig with a lick
of common sense wouldn't venture near the things ..."
Keith
continues, "The grand finale of the race is a 35-yard mud pit with
wires strung mere inches above the mud. Nobody gets through that
without being covered with the stuff. Boy would mom have given me heck
for this trick! My thirteen-year-old granddaughter, Brooke, was
stationed there with a camera. As she snapped end-less pictures of me
and a bunch of identical looking globs, I could hear her shout-ing:
"WAY TO GO PAPA! YOU CAN DO IT!" Alas, I could hardly see my adoring
fan. Mud was in my eyes."