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So I was enjoying an outing to Peanut Island with some buds the other day. Much hilarity and high jinks, (picture being left alone in Kennedy’s Bunker with all the cool stuff.)

Yep, you guessed it, as soon as the tour guide left (we looked innocent enough, and besides, what are we going to do – take the tiny cots? Or the buckets that serve as bathrooms?)

As the guys took turns sitting behind the President’s desk and mugging it up as President in command of the Cuban Missile Crisis, I realized this was much more fun thanthe original experience (being a little kid in Florida during the actual event) – but it did bring back memories of playing in my across the street neighbor’s actual bomb shelter. (Look you can crank the shaft for actual air! Look we’ll have these cans of food to eat and you won’t!)

Basically the Kennedy bunker is a glorified corrugated metal pipe stuck in some huge (well huge-ish) pile of sand with a hinged door that looks to me like one you’d find on a submarine. And painted a cheerful camouflage green (Hi! You can’t see me against this white sand!)

And so I pictured President Kennedy’s face when they led him on the tour (Look what we built for you!)  Complete with tiny metal cots, a sad, sad desk and a couple of state of the art back in the day plastic telephones. (Even I had a better Princess phone than that – sniff.)

They said he had enough food for30 days. Now where he was going after 30 days we don’t know, with most of the world being flattened and irradiated.

Anyhoo—we are so much more sophisticated now. See how the toilet paper logo has morphed from the childish version to today’s recognized brand?

So. So much more sophisticated.

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