Danger lurks everywhere in nature. Thankfully, some serious dangers this time of year come with bright red and yellow caution signs. I’m speaking, of course, about leaves. Whoever coined the phrase “gently falling leaves” was just asking for a walloping from above. Leaves drop without warning. Even the ones that aren’t carrying spiders can land on the back of your neck, just like rabid bats, tangling in your hair and making you leap around in terror. And what are you leaping around on? Still more leaves, wet and slippery ones. You could take a tumble, or step into a hole and break your ankle, or wake up yet more spiders with all your thrashing.
Worse, you could “disturb” the leaf mold on the ground. It’s like carpet mold gone feral. So now you have bats trapped in your hair, spider riots down your back, and clouds of leaf mold engulfing your ankles as you stumble into a camouflaged ditch.
Even more worse, eventually the leaves are all fallen (or more accurately “pelted by trees at you”) only to reveal a greater hazard: branches. Stay inside after Labor Day. You can never be too safe.
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