• peopleproblems@lemmy.world
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    11 months ago

    The thing about quicksand that bothers me is that they never explain where you would encounter it. So I just assumed all sand could potentially become quicksand if it was deep enough. I guess I thought beaches weren’t deep enough

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        11 months ago

        Yeah I’ve never seen quicksand, but I have stepped in that thick-ass mud that traps you and schlorps your shoe off

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          11 months ago

          This was always the reason at school for why we weren’t allowed to splash on puddles or walk in the mud. Even as a kid I called bullshit because I never saw tons of abandoned shoes in the mud. As a parent now I wonder how the heck they keep the kids out of the mud and puddles as well as they did