Shot outs to Bourdain's Unknown Laos

Still detonating bombs from the wars not televised, like Vietnam. This time it was Laos and not Cambodia. Did you know there was war in the nineties? Vietnam ended in the seventies, but the hits kept on hitting.

Little kids pick up 'cluster bombs' and play with them like strewn tennis balls near the country club. Not a very high survival rate, folks. So pockmarks and shrapnel aside, what about the tremors? I reference here and once again, Tim Chea, editor of Johnnie's Cars. I had him totally wrong. Only the second or third person I met from Laos.

One brother was missing the index, middle and ring fingers from his right hand. Most people are right handed.

But my man Chea experiences a shiver, like someone unexpectedly touched him with a piece of ice. Except not just one cube, but a bag of ice, by surprise intermittently throughout the day; like coaches who win important bowl games.

But Chea doesn't get doused with icy Gatorade for coaching. Sometimes it happens when forming sentences. Chea's got it under control, like his career. He's gifted in IT/My point; it does not seem he represents the survivors of these unexploded ordinances, but the witness who gets to see one of those kids explode.