[AT] Very OT, my first fishing trip...

[John Dunlap]

Now that's funny, I don't care who ya are....

On Sun, Jan 24, 2010 at 11:17 AM, Dick Day <ddss at telebeep.com> wrote:
> Since this seems to be a slow ATIS day, I thought I would share a posting
> from my Facebook blog...
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> First off, no sane person would ever admit to any of this. Please keep this
> just between us.
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> I did go fishing once. After over half a century, the details are a bit
> sketchy, but this is how I remember it...
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> I was about 8 or so. My friend lived across the street (they were one of the
> rich families on the block, they had a COLOR television). They also had a
> boat. During the summer, they usually went fishing on Lake Roland. "Uncle
> Joe" invited me to go fishing with them one Sunday. My parents said ok, so I
> went on my very first (and last) fishing trip.
>
> We were not on the water but a short while and they handed me my very own
> pole. Once I saw them actually catch a fish, I handed the pole back
> wondering how these people could sleep at night, knowing they had actually
> killed a living creature (you may have guessed that I never went hunting
> either, and yes... I do eat meat).
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> I left them to do their slaughtering and wandered around the boat (pretty
> good size as I remember, of course, I also remember my father's Renault as a
> pretty big car, so the boat could have been a dingy, not sure now). I was in
> the front of the boat (bow? stern? I like "front" better) and saw a cooler.
> You need to know that, unlike most kids of that era, I was a real porker in
> those days. I was also bored out of my mind and just knew the cooler was
> filled with goodies. Sure enough there was ham, all nicely wrapped in foil.
> So, I figured they wouldn't mind if I ate early (surely they were going to
> feed me, right?).
>
> Did you know that people actually use "ham" as bait? Me either. This part of
> the trip is not the least bit sketchy, they were NOT happy, they ran out of
> bait much earlier that they had planned and the fishing trip was cut very
> short (while it seemed like we were on that killing vessel for days, I'm
> thinking were were in the water less than an hour).
>
> My friend and I remained friends but for some reason I was not invited back
> for any more fishing trips. While it was a miserable time for all on that
> trip, I like to think that I was solely responsible for saving the lives of
> dozens of innocent fish that day.
>
> Dick Day
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