Problems that were overhyped:
- quicksand
- people offering me drugs
- the Bermuda Triangle
Problems that I was underprepared for:
- nightly existential dread
- remembering all 17,392 passwords required to do my job
- arguing with robots about whether or not there is an unexpected item in the bagging area
In Charleston we had a material called "pluff-mud".
Sometimes you could walk on it, sometimes you'd immediately sink in up to your knees or deeper, sometimes these conditions would be within a meter of one another.
It smelled awful, like the crap you scrape up from a clogged kitchen sink.
It would suck your shoes right off if you tried to pull them out.
Never been in quicksand, but that stuff was bad enough.
πΏπΆππΆ 
Chris F
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