40 years I fell off a ladder, down flight of stairs and landed on my back. No problem. Got up, dusted myself off and went back to work.
Today. I can throw my back out and be in bed a week for sneezing wrong.
I know Mardi Gras seems like a foreign concept to a lot of people. That's because, well, it is.
New Orleans has been through a lot in the last 300 years. War, plagues, storms, fires& floods.
In 1857, 11,000 people died from Yellow Fever in one summer.
So part of it is a way to lighten up and not...