Absolutely a true story. When I was in the Army, one guy in the platoon bought a high-speed one man shelter. (high speed in Army'ese means 'really cool'). But he needed some anchor points to prop it up. So he went around and borrowed about 8 Entrenching tools (shovel that folds up/comes an axe) from us. He drove it into the ground around him and erected the one man tent.
Then it started to pour and while the rest of us were getting *ABSOLUTELY SOAKED* he was laughing and having a great ol' time. Then the lightning strikes came and all laughing stopped. All we heard was "hey guys, can you come and get your Etools!?!" *then* the rest of us were laughing!
Unfortunately, a soldier in another platoon (half a klick away) died after getting hit by lightning.
So I don't blame you one bit for pulling your daughter out.
