What would you do if you found yourself up a creek without a paddle ?

Sit back and enjoy the peace and quiet. :)

Turn on the outboard motor 😂

Well, something similar did happen to me, but we were on a lake. The ex was not experienced in any outdoorsy stuff, and he broke the plastic paddle on the nylon dinghy we were using.

Then he demanded MY paddle, and tried to paddle with great strength to get us to dock, but he had to cross the paddle over the top of the dinghy, right left, right left, and the paddle ended up catching on the nylon cords and flipped right out of the dinghy.

We were completely helpless...but were fortunate that the wind was blowing us toward the reeds and the shallows at one side of the lake. And we were even MORE fortunate when a power boat shouted out and asked us if we needed any help. They were able to retrieve one of the paddles and towed us back to dock.

The beauty of being up the creek is that it is all downhill from there.

Creeks are generally pretty shallow. I would walk

Float my way down the creek with the flow.

Stand up

A canoe is symmetric. A simple about-face, an adjustment on that cane seat and presto....North to South.

Get out and walk , creeks are not very deep.

Surrender to the inevitable.

I’d ponder the all time question: How’d I get up here ?

I would use my feet as a propeller

Get up and leave

Enjoy

Lay down and go to sleep.