Bryan Kett

We're going to a state park in western Wisconsin, free trip.

And I said, I'm in, right?

Time spent in the outdoors, nature, all that.

This is gonna rejuvenate me.

And Shelby said, great, we could use another chaperone.

And I thought, well, what does that mean?

shelby and shelby explained that she was taking the school's ecology club which she ran on a weekend-long camping trip a field trip and uh just for reference the ecology club was comprised of like a dozen very intense teenagers all of whom wore these you've seen like the airbrushed animal t-shirts at all times the pandas and the jaguars and they did this unironically and

Shelby could kind of sense that this wasn't what I had in mind, and Shelby gave me a look.

She gave me a look, it's a look that only Shelby can give, it's a very all-knowing look, and she said, it'll really make a difference.

And I was about to tell her, I don't care.

But a free trip was too good to pass up, so I said, OK, I'll go.

But I'm not going to help anyone.

I'm going to rejuvenate.

This is my time.

She said, that's fine.

And so Friday, I got on a bus with like a dozen kids, many of whom were growing these very thin, wispy mustaches they were just unaware of.

And about 10 minutes into the trip, they just started peppering me with questions.

They would say, do you camp a lot?

What kind of tent do you have?

Do you like animals?