Here's your bee-lover

To celebrate my birthday, Eric and I and Emerson and some friends went out camping for a few days this past weekend. We went to a spot called Arroyo Seco about 150 miles south of San Francisco on 101 South, which means it is about 5 hours away due to traffic except between 1 and 4am.

We were dismayed upon arrival to see a note posted advising us that the drinking water had failed a quality test and was no long considered safely drinkable. They had found "coliform," a fecal bacteria that we imagined to be shaped like tiny cauliflower, in the water.

Always the heroes, Eric and our friend Adam went to get drinking water on Saturday night at the closest general store. It is important that you know that Eric was wearing his "I (heart) Bees" t-shirt on this outing to appreciate the exchange they had with the guy dressed like a cowboy who was hanging out commentating the evening at the store.

"Here's your bee-lover," he started as Eric reached the check-out.

"Why are you buying water?" he wanted to know. Eric explained that there was fecal bacteria in the water at the campsite.

"There's shit in the water!?" he exclaimed, "there's shit in ALL water - welcome to Earth!"