Last summer we took a nice trip to Florida and stayed at a campground on Lake Alfred, close to relatives. It had a beautiful dock that you could go sit on with a shelter and roof, fish or just sit and watch the sunrise or sunset.
All along the banks, signs posted about the gators and at most moments, you could just look out and see the heads of numerous ones sitting within 20-30 yards of the bank. Mostly small ones, 4'-6' but there was one that was up near 10' or more as his head alone was 2' long.
I watched the sunrise, fished a little, went in to make some coffee and get the wife and daughter stirring and I come back out and there is Mom and girlfriend, the lab and a baby under 4 years old, sitting in those little short chairs you put partially in the water at the beach. And mom isn't paying a bit of attention to the little one, the dogs watching it I guess.
I walked down and said hello and said, I don't mean to tell anyone what to do, but I'd never forgive myself if I didn't tell you there are a lot of gators in this lake, almost all of them big enough to think your child and dog are suitable snacks and if you want to see the big one I have been watching all morning, walk up on the dock and look in the shallows to your left. He's big enough to eat any of the three of us if he wants to.
She gives me a polite, thank you for the information and not another word. She continued to sit there with her friend, child and dog up until the time we left later that morning.
You can't fix stupid.
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