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captain queeg

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2. I used to ride my bike to work. One day when it was time to go home it was 111

Reply to TexasTowelie (Original post)

Tue Jun 14, 2022, 04:29 AM

Jun 2022

I drank a bunch of water, filled 2 water bottles, and headed out. The first mile (probably less) was uphill. I’d drank all my water by the time I got to the top. I stopped sweating as far as I could tell and I’d heard that’s a real bad sign. There was one of those big circle irrigators running on whatever crop they had. I walked out and lay down under it fo about 10 minutes. You couldn’t drink that water it was full of chemicals and I don’t know where it originally came from. But it was flat then downhill from there so I made it home. I don’t know what you’d call that, maybe heat stroke or something, but it’s no joke.

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