Phoenix, Day 2

A coworker of mine is one of those sporty and energetic young go-getters, so she went for a jog on a winding path near the base of Camelback Mountain last night. She promptly tripped and fell on a cactus. There weren’t any injuries other than to her pride, and as for removing the needles, the hotel keeps a large bottle of classic white Elmer’s Glue at the security station for just that purpose. You squeeze it over the affected area, let it dry, then peel it off, just like you did when you were in grade school and pretended like it was fake skin that you were ripping from your zombie hand. Which you can still do, only in this case it also pulls out the cactus needles.