Re: [Paddlewise] Do I need Help?

From: Steve Cramer <cramer_at_coe.uga.edu>
Date: Sun, 17 Oct 1999 15:39:59 -0400
dmccarty_at_us.ibm.com wrote:
> 
> I have a question for the Collective Paddle Wise List Knowledge....
> 
> This morning the wife send me out to do shopping and get breakfast.  As I was
> leaving my subdivision, I got to the stop sign where I'm supposed to turn right
> to get to the grocery store.  At the stop sign, I'm heading east, I noticed a
> car  on the opposite side of the  road heading west.  Understand, it was not the
> car that got my interest, it was the Necky Aruluk III kayak with a off white
> bottom, yellow top, grean seam stripe with matching green hatches, that had my
> attention.  

Nothing unusual here...

> So engrossed was I in the kayak that I turned left instead of right
> and followed the kayak, errr, car down the street.  Why, I don't know, its just
> something I had to do!  

Nor here...

> At the next light the kayak, err car, turned left
> heading toward the lake and I drove straight on.  

There's some weird behavior....

> A couple of miles up the road,
> after I quit wondering which part of the lake the kayak was heading for,  I
> realized I was driving 180 degrees from my intended course, so I did a lean turn
> with a bow sweep to reverse course, errr, I did a U Turn 

Aha! getting back on track...

> and headed on my origional float plan, err, shopping.

Huh? Wassamatta wit you, anyway?
> 
> Now the questions.....
> 
> Do I need mental health help because I'm following strange kayaks?

What, you think a psychiatrist will make them easier to follow?

> Should I tell my wife?

Believe me, she knows. My wife can tell you to the day when I stopped
walking across parking lots to ogle sports cars and started walking
across parking lots to ogle boats. (BTW, I ogle ladies from a discreet
distance....She knows that, too)

> Is this a sign I'm not in my kayak enough?

Who is?

> Or is it just normal for a PaddleWisenhiemer?

Normal PaddleWisenheimer...hfdla%#ihc*o(iasdfn!!!!nmc#_at_oaks**(nmkmlk*^%j
j^kkkll
Sorry, my oxymoron meter just pegged.

Steve
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