Flashback to 2016, telling my dad about our upcoming trip to Italy …

Me: We are hiking up Mt. Vesuvius.

My dad: That volcano is still active, ya know?!

Me: Yes, but unlike the people of 79 A.D., I’m not going to stand there looking at the plume wondering if the Gods are angry. I’m busting the hell out of there.

We survived but if we had been incinerated by a pyroclastic flow, that would have been exactly how I would have wanted to go!