re: #34 SixDegrees

See my posts downstairs: in that case, we start using bears.

Two guys want to go camping in the Great Smokey Mountains Park. To do so, you have to attend a one day safety course and get a “license”. The safety course exists for obvious reasons, and the license so that the park rangers know who is camping in the park and their location. So our two heroes attend the course and get the form.

They are walking in the woods when they come around the bend and there is a bear! Now at the safety course, they had been taught that if you happened to run across a bear, show no fear. Don’t charge, but don’t run, either. Stand your ground. The bear may sniff you but will eventually leave.

One of the campers panics and runs. The bear charges after him. The other camper is trying to stand his ground but turns and runs when it seems that the bear is going to run him over to catch the other fellow!

“HEY!” The 2nd camper says as they are running. “They said don’t run from the bear! If you run from the bear he will chase you and you can’t outrun him!”

“I don’t have to outrun the bear,” the first guy pants. “I have to outrun you!”