Commentary— Decked Out In Boat Burns

If you’ve ever walked barefoot across the deck of a dark-hued powerboat on a bright mid-summer day, you’ll never forget it. The nerves in the smoldering soles of your feet send one very clear message to your brain:

Jump into the water.

But you can’t do that because there’s a whole lot of people watching, so you do the fire-dance. From a distance, it looks as if you’re either having a grand mal seizure or you’re just a really bad dancer. An eruption of profanity spews from your mouth and gathers force.

In desperation, you sit and lift your feet. Bad idea, as neither board-shorts nor bikinis provide adequate skin protection from a boat-deck that could double as a large pancake griddle.

Now you have matching burns on your butt to go with the ones on the bottoms of your feet.

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