Just a quick little something I wrote a while ago.
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As he let go of the hissing snake he had thought was a vine, Todd reflected that after surviving the mudslide, escaping the quicksand, frantically fleeing through the jungle from a native tribe that belonged in a Tarzan movie, narrowly avoiding the slavering jaws of the hungry tiger, and riding the rockslide that had somehow managed to not kill him while dropping him into a watery moat surrounding an ancient ruined city, he not only had ruined his expensive clothes and shoes while climbing out of the muddy water, but he had also lost his passport and camera to the many dangers that had plagued him since arriving in the jungle, and now that he found himself falling out of the tree and over a waterfall that plunged a few hundred feet into a canyon below, he quickly pulled out his cell phone, speed-dialed his mother, and just as he was saying, “Mom, you’re not going to believe the day I’ve had,” he lost the signal as the phone’s battery died, and as the reeking sweat under his armpits reminded him that he had used a very poor anti-perspirant, his final thought before hitting the water was that he was going to give Adventure Tours the worst review in TripAdvisor’s history when he got home.
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