Bear Patrol

So, many of you know that I went camping last weekend and by camping I don’t mean KOA camping. I mean backwoods, dig your own toilet, hang your garbage in a tree type of camping. While preparing for said camping trip, I pondered on buying some bear repellant. Now bears are a bit lower on my “deathly afraid of” scale but they do fall right behind flying, snakes, rats, and open water. They are followed by earthquakes which I’ll get to that a little later… Apparently bear repellant is rather expensive, say $50 expensive. I know my philosophy is well established that I am a three not a five in life, but this is one area where I would be willing and able to go above my expectations and do everything I can to hold off a bear. So I committed to buying bear repellant despite the mocking of my camping partner and most anyone I talked. Unfortunately I am also lazy and by the time I was done shopping at Walmart I had no energy to brave Bass Pro Shops and be mocked there. So in terms of Bear protection I am still a three (yes I did hang my garbage from the tree). Although, I did have an elk stumble into my campsite so perhaps that is some karma for not being a five…