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In hindsight, what is one of the dumbest things you ever did?
I was thinking back on my life and remembered a time, when I was in Idaho, that I and a couple friends saw a moose off the road a few hundred yards. So we stopped to get pictures. Of course today’s cameras were not created and I was dealing with a 110 instamatic. Guaranteed crappy pictures from where we were. So I moved closer. And closer. Pretty soon I was about 15 feet from the moose. It was a mama and her baby was on the other side of her. She was eating slime out of the bottom of a waterhole. I approached slowly and calmly. Eventually she raised her head to look at me and I stopped and spoke softly to her. She considered and went back to eating again. I took another step and she raised up again to look. More gentle talking and she went back to eating. Eventually she figured I was close enough and just turned away with her baby. I went the other way and was happy with the encounter. But looking back, I’m completely lucky I wasn’t trampled to death.
That was one of the dumber things I ever did. Anyone else want to share?
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