Oops Bag

(1) A plastic bag carried in case of unanticipated bowel excitement. A whoopie-whoop swell foop scoopy-scooping human-poop feedback looper. Use it, tie it, fling it.

Also known as a flyaway toilet or helicopter toilet, this is a simple hobby that everyone can take up. Not biodegradable or anything, but a fun way to interact with people you dislike, as long as they're close enough to nail in the head and yet far enough away to give you a decent running start.

Gastro Girl does it so you can too. ( http://bit.ly/1uPxJZU ) Plus, she has suggestions about how to handle those oily stains.

(2) A bag kept in reserve for dealing with memory-related incontinence. A catch-all container for any last minute or almost-forgotten items you need.

Forget something, only to recall it at the last moment, after you're already packed? Just droop and drop by leaning over and dropping said thingy into your oops bag, then put off worrying.

Once you reach the trailhead, then you can worry about how you're going to carry the damn bag. If you are really slow upstairs (no, don't write in to share your stories, please) you can lash the bag onto your pack and later hang it overnight right with your food. Sort things out the next day when you need to repack your pack in the first on-trail morning's early light.

Some people in fact live their whole lives this way.

(3) Yo head, dude. The place where you keep a record of your dumbs, so you don't have to invent them again later. It's like, science 'n all.

(4) An emergency package of the little things you might need while you are out and about. It covers oops moments that arise.

(5) Etc: https://bit.ly/3xXQgdH

 

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Me? Guess.

Definitions: Hantavirus (Mouse Death)

Like being sick, but worse.

(1) The sound that death makes when it has you by the tail.

(2) A respiratory disease spread by bushrats and deer mice and such, one that you get a from bites or after breathing aerosolized urine, saliva, or feces. (Aerosolized feces — think about that for a while.)

First you get exposed, and then between one and five weeks later some flu-like symptoms begin. And then the hemorrhagic fever and pneumonia. Hemorrhagic fever is, euphemistically put, leaking blood vessels, as in when they disintegrate, if you can call that "leaking".

Kills your kidneys too: sixty percent fatal.

If you want to try this one on, you can find lots of mice in trail shelters.

(3) Or...

Hanta baby, slip a disease under the tree, for me
So sweet, you see
A raging red hemorrhage, for me, for me
Hanta baby, hurry down to the shelter tonight

Think of all the fun I'll miss
But all the ghosts I'll kiss
Next year I could be oh so dead
If you check me off your list
Boo doo bee doo

Hanta honey, I wanted a yacht, not really a lot
I was an angel all year, but now death is so near
Hanta baby, hurry down to the shelter tonight

Hanta cutie, there's one thing I really do need, the deed
To a cemetery plot
Hanta baby, hurry down to the shelter tonight

Hanta baby, my lungs are filling with goo
I think it took my kidneys too
Hanta baby, hurry down to the shelter tonight

Come and trim my funeral tree
With some decorations bought at Tiffany's
I really do believe in you
Let's see if you believe in me
Boo doo bee doo

Hanta baby, forgot to mention one little thing,
A ringing in my ear, so clear
'Cause death is so near
Hanta baby, hurry down to the shelter tonight

(After, but presumably not infringing on the original lyrics:
https://bit.ly/3m2SQMW)

(4) In other words, a respiratory disease, one carried by little skittering critters.

The disease that the virus causes is more formally called "Hemorrhagic Fever With Renal Syndrome" (HFRS), after the Hantan River area in Korea, where the virus was first isolated.

Symptoms are indeed flu-like and do take one to five weeks to appear, except that unlike flu, this disease has a fatality rate of 60 percent, as noted. (And never forget: Life is uncertain, so eat dessert first.)

 

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Me? Trading in my mouse-racing team for a set of sanitized tapeworms. (Better safe than sorry, or, um...something?)