Someone Saved My Life Tonight (didn't you dear ?)

I will warn you right away, this is not going to be the most aesthetically pleasing of posts on any level, so if you so desire, you can bail out now.
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Still here ? As you know by now, I love to get out and just poke around. Today was no exception. An afternoon excursion found me on perhaps the all time ugliest bridge to nowhere I've ever seen. Even the graffiti artists had done a poor job. This footbridge spans the Oise River not far from the city of Creil, France. It is immediately adjacent to a sewage treatment plant, so the odor was, shall we say, resplendent ? Or perhaps "redolent" is more appropriate ?
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Now I know this next photo is nothing to write home about, and is probably not going to win me any awards, but as in the title of Woody Allen's latest film, it's a case of whatever works . . . Believe it or not, the concrete wall here is a retaining wall around a large and seething lake of human sewage, obviously being stirred by currents from powerful pumping stations. I will spare you the view of the frothy brown surface, your imagination can fill that part in. But what captured my (no doubt twisted) sense of humor here was the bright orange life saver attached to the wall. And I thought, well golly, isn't that thoughtful, I mean, should anyone have the awful luck to actually fall into that horrid cesspool of swirling human waste, and be in danger of drowning in it, to find themself in the really deep shit, as it were, well, not to worry, there's a life saver there, waiting to be thrown to you ! Don't you feel better now ? Oh my, just don't come around my place hoping to to get cleaned up after you've been pulled out, hugging that orange live saver !

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I'm wondering if those little fruit flavored rings of hard candy that were known as life savers still exist? They're not sold here in France, anyway, that I know of. They were a favorite in my childhood.
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It's funny, I haven't seen a life saver, of any color, in ages, so after having just seen one at the waste treatment pool, I couldn't help noticing another one at second industrial plant just a little farther up the road today, where I pushed open a heavy metal door in a concrete wall to get this view. See the life saver ? It is hanging on the rail of a liquid holding pool marked Acid Juice. I could only presume that I had inadvertantly stumbled on one of the largest Lysergic acid diethylamide production facilities in the world. Were one to fall into a vat of that, you might want someone to toss you a life saver also . . .

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And oddly enough, a barge came down the river just then, and what did I spy on the deck of the barge ? Two more orange life savers ! Just in case anyone might fall in the river. Well I'll be darned . . . no doubt am going to be dreaming about life savers tonight. . . and in fact, that is exactly what I'm going to go do right now. And if you are still reading here, well, I thank you for your patience and comprehension. Some days are like that, you find yourself thanking your lucky stars that you're not in any deeper shit than you are already. And happy that there are life savers out there in the universe should things ever get worse . . .

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