His Wife Threw Him In The Hot Tub

My partner just returned from Burning Man.  I mentioned this to a few and to my surprise a couple people have not heard of the event.  So here is the short story:  1986 8 people burn a wooden man on a beach in San Fransisco,  24 years later 50,000 people of all walks of life, gather in the middle of the desert to party for a week and burn a 40 foot wooden man.   The people who go to Burning Man absolutly let loose, pretty much in everyway imaginable.  Need more on the event, go to Youtube. Warning: it’s a little shocking, and funny.

Enough background and back to my personal story of my 60 year old partner, who’s not your typical Burning Man type.  He’s a Tommy Bahama shirt and short kind of father, husband, bussiness guy who leads a fun yet very normal life.  Rick (my partner) and his childhood friend (AKA Beef), also 60,  head to the desert to experience the Burning Man.  I spoke to Rick once just before he enters the “city” and again when he was leaving the desert.   The conversation after went something like this ” Jerry, I can’t even explain it to you.  These people let loose, not in a bad way, but in a way hard to describe, it was like a movie.  The music is going 24 hours a day.  I have never been so dirty in my life. You take a shower and 2 minutes later you are just as dirty again. You can not get clean.  Red dirt blows so hard you can not even see”.    I said “wow” sounds like a harsh place, and Rick said “it’s like living in the toughest elements for a week and the noise never stops”.   I’m now sure he’ll say thats the last time he’ll ever do it again but I ask anyways, “so you’ll not be going back I assume?”  and to my surprise and added insight to the unexplainable, Rick responds, “I definatly would do it agian!”.  I guess words dont capture the experience.

So Rick rolls back into town Sunday where his wife (a supportive saint) takes one look and points to the spa / hot tub.  Thus, furthering the factual benefit of a spa / hot tub once again.  It’s use as a human washing machine and allowing re-entry into the home post Burning Man.  Glad you are back safely my friend and your luck she took the spa cover off first.