one irony about quicksand

Ironically, it was just about at the time when we were drawing up the original “concepts of children” list, and mocking quicksand in passing as a ridiculous and rare entity, that former President George Bush (the elder) nearly died in quicksand.

This is not a well-known incident; in fact, I can’t even find it on Google. But I remember it clearly from the newspapers of around 1993. Bush Sr. was on some sort of hunting trip in Canada. He stepped in what was technically called a “peat bog,” described as very similar to quicksand. Two Secret Service agents had to pull with all their might to yank him out. (They’d have had a fun time explaining that incident to their Chief. Losing a former President to quicksand? Surely a career-ending moment in the Secret Service.)