An alligator’s jaw muscles
are designed to bite down, to grip, and to hold its prey. An alligator can
crush bone when it bites down. The muscles that open the gator’s mouth are relatively
weak; electrical or duct tape can hold a gator’s mouth shut, even the ones
approaching the size of a canoe.
It’s a detail.
When you’re taking a
lovely nap and your boys come in yelling, “Wake up, mom, and see what we caught
with a chicken neck,” and then you wake up with a three-foot alligator dangling
above your groggy head, it’s an important detail.
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| Conner got it right: ear protection, life vest, and stay in the middle of the airboat. |
I try to remember that
when I write. Get the details right, the details matter.
