The three young people who scrambled buck naked into Moosehead Lake for a free roast beef sandwich should have been given mugs of cold beer and blueberry pie with ice cream for dessert – all free. They remind me of my crazy friends from that wonderful carefree time of my life.

Their cockamamie prank sounds exactly like what my cockamamie friends would have done. I would have been right with them. Of course I would not have dropped my panties and dived in. I am way too prudish. But I would have egged them on and I would have been at the ready with towels when they climbed back on the barge. And we all would have laughed. Ah, the free spirit of youth.

So loosen your too tight corsets and unstuff your shirts and laugh. The world needs more harmless cockamamiousness. And, I am old enough to be the grandmother of all of those young people.

Penny Lehman

Hampden