Lesson One

How to Pick Your Battles

“Please leave all your clothing behind the yellow line, enter the shower, wash with soap, and shampoo your hair. Exit the shower out the other side, and you’ll find clean underwear, a bra, coveralls, and socks waiting for you.”

Wait, what? I have to take off all my clothes, take a shower, and then put on someone else’s undies? Why, yes! And then do the same thing again in reverse after the tour. It’s called “showering in” and “showering out.” And what sort of facility requires this level of biosecurity? Am I seeing a nuclear plant? A sensitive scientific experiment? Nope, I’m going to see pigs. Yes, pigs. Those animals known for bathing in mud, whose enclosures have become (erroneously) synonymous with a mess. ...

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