Trusting experience

Has this happened to you? Someone tells you to do something that seems wrong, dangerous, or just not right, and what do you do?  Kadizzle remembers one of these experiences with Kee Chee.  Kee Chee was an old Indian in Canyon De Chelly.  Strangely Kadizzle met the niece of Kee Chee about two months ago some 20 years after Kadizzle went up the canyon with Kee Chee.

Kee Chee was an Indian guide. You cannot go into the canyon unless you hire a guide. Kee Chee told Kadizzle to drive into the river.  This was a bit strange, but Kadizzle thought we would cross the river in the Toyota Tundra.  No, Kee Chee told Kadizzle to turn and drive up the river.  This seemed wrong.  Kadizzle inquired with Kee Chee if indeed he heard him correctly.  Chee explained that the bottom of the river was perfectly flat and all sand.  It appeared to be that way.  So in about two inches of water we drove up the river with no problems.  Must have been an old Indian trick.  Kee Chee said you could not drive up the river if it was dry you would sink in the sand. Everyone has seen this phenomenon at the beach.

So what is the point?  Well sometimes in life you have to just trust someone.  Of course many times this may go wrong.  How do you decide who to trust?  It is strange that often we trust people we do not know more than someone we have known a long time.   When you get on a plane you trust the pilot, who may have just come from a bar, but you trust him.  Doctors are the most dangerous people in general to trust.

Once upon a time Kadizzle was a student in college in West Virginia.  Two dolts paid by the college led out outdoor recreation class.  The dolts took us on a trip to Cooper's Rocks to repel the 900 ft rock face.  Now the two dolts had talked a good game, and Kadizzle assumed the dolts had some actual repelling experience.  At the top of the repel Kadizzle was a bit concerned about the tree the dolts were using for an anchor, but figured the dolts must know what they are doing.  One of the dolts was a pretty fat guy.   Kadizzle asked the fat guy leader if he was going to go down the repel line next.  This is when the fat guy who was telling everyone how to do it replied, " No, I have never done this before".   The dolts had just read about repelling, and only knew what was in the book.  The fat dolt said he was scared just standing there.  Kadizzle went down the rock face, and the dolt teaching the class climbed back down the trail.  So the moral of the story is the old line about don't assume anything.