11 Dec 95 15:31, Lee Bell wrote to Janis Foley:
 LB> Not too hard to simulate.  Some night, turn out all the lights in the
 LB> house and close all the blinds.  Then go into a bedroom, close the door
 LB> and get into the closet and close that door too.  What you have
 LB> approximates the inside of a cave with no lights.  Need I mention that
 LB> you carry more than one light source?  I carry 4.
I once made the traverse from Peacock Slough (sp?) to Pothole Sink with some
relatively inexperienced cavers.  I was running the reel so I was the last 
man 
out on the return.  Suddenly, TOTAL WIPEOUT!  I couldn't see diddly squat....
even using my massive cave light (you know, the kind where you don't dare 
shine
it on someones arm or leg for fear it'll slice it off).
Since I wasn't absolutely sure of my companions, I just settled down onto the
bottom and waited for things to clear......very black.....a black you could
touch and feel.  My thinking at the time was that if the cloud enveloped them
up ahead and someone panicked, then they could fight among themselves and I'd
recover the bodies later.  At least I wouldn't be one of them.
What a great bunch of guys!  After everything cleared enough to move on, I 
came
on out.  "Oh", one said, "I wondered where you were".  Now you know why I
didn't bust my butt to watch out for anyone but myself.  Being reel man is an
advantage at times.
Somehow, I never found time in my busy schedule to dive with those guys 
ain.
 LB> Your husband is probably right.  As near as I can tell women are all
 LB> strange, well, lets say different.  There's no predicting what the
 LB> differences will be, only that they'll be there.  Yea for differences.
I work with women all night long (I'm a 3rd shift RN) and I'll be damned if I
can understand 'em.  Strange creatures, women.
Jay
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