A/N-On the next episode, 'The Wilderness Experience' was a great show with Bernice buying herself and the girls a wilderness survival course and they met two women, Big Edie and Micky Jr. They were both ego manics, especially Big Edie! So this chapter is about them and their egos.
Shortly after their last experience in the Georgia woods, Edie and Mickey Jr. were both sure that they were ready to tackle the swamps of Louisiana. They found a course like they one they took and rode a greyhound bus to a small Cajun town then walked to a swamp and the girls went their separate ways, convinced that they could handle things on thier own.
By the time Edie and Micky Jr. got to the middle of the swamp where ever they started out, it was bedtime so Edie just set out to get some natural strings from the swamp that she assumed would be strong enough so she twisted it all together and made her a hammock and tied it up between two old but strong swamp trees with moss growing in and around...a hour after she laid down, the 'hammock' fell apart and she fell in the water.
She was so confident that nothing would go wrong that she didn't bring a change of clothes so she had to get build a fire to dry her clothes by...at least it kept away the mosquitoes.
Mickey Jr. had a bit of better luck, her hammock didn't fall apart until the middle of the night and she didn't fall into the swamp but she did fall on land and twisted her ankle.
Both were hungry by breakfast time so Edie made a homemade craw fish trap and she happily put it in the water then went back to wait at her small fire, at least her underwear was dry...Mickey Jr. had a least bought a change of underwear.
Mickey Jr. realized that she would have trouble catching any big game for breakfast but she was in luck, a non venomous snake passed by so she got out her survival knife and threw it down squarely on the snake's head, cut it off and knew you could eat this type of snake raw so she did , she thought of chicken and fish at the same time.
Back at Edie's she didn't have any luck going, there was no craw fish by 9 o'clock she took out for another part of the swamp, at least the rest of her clothes were dry. By three thirty, she had fell in a mud hole, almost got her leg bit off by a alligator , built a raft from parts of a old hunting shed that time had forgot in the backwoods but she didn't put enough wood on the raft so she fell in the swamp river again!
Mickey Jr's day was going a bit better, at least she was able to get food from a nutra rat. By nightfall, Big Edie decided to go to sleep, maybe the next day would be better, she made her bed out of huge broken stick this time and she got moss to make her mattress...only thing was she used moss from the floor of the ground and not the arms of the trees so they were full of unseen chiggers.
Mickey Jr. had at least found a another broken down abandoned hunter's shed to sleep in so things were better for her. By noon the next day, both women were beaten, battered and sore from Louisiana swamps and they NEVER wanted to come back!
So when they finally reached their destination to leave, and when they met up, Mickey Jr. asked her how did she do? She said, "NO problem, I can't wait to do this again!" Mickey Jr. smiled and said , "Me too, this was easy"
This was the first meeting of the big , fat liars club.
A/N-How did I do?
