When I was walking in the arid section of a nature preserve, someone warned me to avoid the cacti that were thick on the ground.
It reminded me of the time I was carefully treading across a fallen tree which made a path over a ditch and the guide told me the mud underneath wasn't a soft as it looked. It didn't look at all soft.
I didn't really need the warning about the cactus.
I'd discovered, as a teen, in an area that had few cacti, that just one can be unpleasant. I didn't think I was sitting near it, but I learned that a safe distance from a cactus is a little farther away than I expected.
It reminded me of the time I was carefully treading across a fallen tree which made a path over a ditch and the guide told me the mud underneath wasn't a soft as it looked. It didn't look at all soft.
I didn't really need the warning about the cactus.
I'd discovered, as a teen, in an area that had few cacti, that just one can be unpleasant. I didn't think I was sitting near it, but I learned that a safe distance from a cactus is a little farther away than I expected.
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