Gary, you said: > From that I presume they are girls. > All I can say (as father of a willowy teen soon heading off to college) > :-\ is that the kayaking skills will give them a place where they can > escape at will. :-) > > I have friends where the female half used to test boyfriends by seeing how > well they could solo her ww kayak across a lake. > Husband of many years was able to contain his frustration and do it fairly > well--passing what was a serious weeding tool for her! The "paddle-across-the-lake test", eh? Nice weeding-out process for prospective mates. My wife was a little different: asked me on our first date what my eschatological outlook was (perspective on end times, timing of the rapture, etc.). Afterward, she said if I hadn't known what she meant or couldn't answer, I'd have been screened out. Well, I immediately had a come-back and told her I was a pan-millennialist. She said, "Huh, what does that mean?" I said, hey gal, however the end pans out, that's how it pans out. Kinda like getting married. I then took her camping with friends a few weeks later in Vancouver Island's very wet, muddy mountains, and did it rain. She passed obviously. Even swam across a glacial-feed lake, tuckered me right out it did. A spouse who can't swim well and whines while camping was my weeding out test. She even seemed to enjoyed the rain back in those days. I do encounter an awful lot of paddlers who's spouse or partner doesn't share the same enthusiasm for the outdoors, or especially kayaking. Now talk about your religious difference, eh! The couples all seem to do okay though. Lots of compromise. I'll cc paddlewise, as I'm sure some folks can relate. Doug *************************************************************************** PaddleWise Paddling Mailing List - Any opinions or suggestions expressed here are solely those of the writer(s). You must assume the entire responsibility for reliance upon them. All postings copyright the author. Submissions: PaddleWise_at_PaddleWise.net Subscriptions: PaddleWise-request_at_PaddleWise.net Website: http://www.paddlewise.net/ ***************************************************************************Received on Mon Mar 19 2007 - 22:36:04 PDT
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