Uhh, hey dude.  It's me.  Y'know those hip waders you loaned me?  Well, you're not gonna believe this.  I went wading in the swamp out back, looking for my lost pickup truck, but you remember how it was knee-deep last year?  Well it topped your waders this year!  I barely got out.  They're full of black, slimy guck and really stink.  I didn't know how I was going to clean them so I just tossed em back in and a gator ate em.  So I'm really sorry about your hip waders...

Say, do you have a pair of chest waders I could borrow?  And a shotgun?  Lots of gators in the swamp these days.  Big hungry ones.  Gonna make me a pair of them boots.  I'll make you a pair too if you want.