Macadam

"You take the monsters serious," he said. "I take the water serious. You'll get hypothermia in about five minutes in water this cold. Try not to fall in."

(The Lunatic Cafe, page 257, paragraph 7)

* He jogged Anita's memory about the Mad Magician, who specialized in leaving magical booby traps. Such as one where the skin of an animal would attach itself to a human the moment he/she touched it. It took a witch to remove it again. One man had the misfortune to have the skin attach to his face. He ended up suffocating and dying. This occurred in the 1970s.