Re: [Paddlewise] Subject: another old man in the sea story

Gordin, Gordin, you said:
>>Ouch, I had no idea Doug would react the way he did.  My post was meant in
jest.  In fun.<<

So was mine!  Didn't you see the little ":-)'s"?   Argh!!!!  Thought you
were up to a bit of public sparring as _you_started it. Or maybe I did.
Using a Hemingway "subject header" was probably inviting a poke or two.
Anyway, everything is cool with me. As a matter of fact, most of us in the
club scene here have a tremendous respect for you. You have been one of the
few who have driven hard this past couple of years to increase your skills,
push others to get out on the water and challenge themselves a bit more (a
lot more), set up rescue clinics with the Coast Guard Aux., etc., etc., etc.
I was going to come home tonight a elucidate some of this, but I see you
already did.

You also said:
>>As my old man and the sea would say, "I'm not done yit. Come back here ya
punk. I've only just begun."<<

At least I'm not the only one who can't spell!   :-)

So, sew, sow...man, what a bizarre language English is.

Anyway, hope future interactions can be just as fun as this one was, though
I'd hate to get in a real fight with you. You'd probably strangle me with a
Spectra tow-rope while gleefully shouting one-fist-to-the sky, the other
holding me under the water, "Take that, ya little punk, yur days of
squawking are dun, this old man of the sea is puttn' ya under, how da ya
like that fur a little entrapment?!"

"No, no, Santiago, please senior, gurgle-choke-cough, please, I promise to
be good on Paddlewise!"

Well, as Helen Keller said; "A great adventure or nothing at all."


Doug Lloyd
Victoria BC

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