My Brother Almost Died Today
email from my brother: This morning at first light i took gerald, the old dumb ass to the river to go fishing and because of him I almost made the news....... BACKED MY BOAT DOWN THE RAMP AND TIED A ROPE TO MY BOAT AND THE OTHER END TO THE DOCK.....THEN FLOATED THE BOAT OFF THE TRAILER INTO THE RIVER.....THEN PARKED MY TRUCK AND RETURNED TO THE RAMP ONLY TO SEE MY BOAT FLOATING DOWN THE RIVER>>>> DUMB ASS GERALD UNTIED IT AND THREW THE ROPE IN THE BOAT...I DIDNT THIK AND DOVE IN ( LOST MY 300 DOLLAR GLASSES ) BY THEN MY BOAT WAS AT LEAST 150 FEET AWAY IN 35 ft OF WATER... WHEN I FINALLY GOT TO IT I COULDNT GET IN AND I FIGURED I WAS FUCKED......I MANAGED TO GRAB THE ROPE AFTER I GOT SOME WIND BACK AND KIND OF BREAST STROKED IT TO THE BANK WHERE I COULD GET IN.....CAN YOU SAY PISSED OFF ?????? I THINK THIS WAS HIS LAST FISHING TRIP WITH ME PERIOD.....AND HE STILL DRIVES A CAR NOT KNOWING WHAT THE HELL HES DOING.... I CAME ACROSS A HUGE BLACK BEAR SWIMMING ACROSS THE RIVER AND LEFT MY CAMERA AT HOME TODAY BECAUSE HE CANT TAKE A PICTURE WITHOUT FUCKING IT UP EVERYTIME....MAN THAT WOULD HAVE BEEN THE SHOT OF A LIFETIME I CANT BELIEVE HOW OUT OF SHAPE I AM>>>>>NO STAMINA LIKE I USED TO HAVE |
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Thank God he's okay!
All's well that ends well!
I can imagine how frightned you must have felt...
:-)
Wow,
I'm trying to imagine the panic of reaching the boat and then not being able to get in. Scary.
Yep, we're not the young pups we used to be.
I'm glad your brother is A-okay!! That's quite a scare! Great picture tho... Is this picture taken on the same trip? He looks such an professional! :-)
Just don't take D.A. Gerald out fishing again - EVER! heh!
No kidding. Scary for him. Terribly so.
On a personal (selfish?) track: the thought that I could lose my brother right now after my mom, sister and dad, had not occurred to me. Not a single thought. It shocked me. I might have lost the last family today. 2007. All the more to remember to show those that you love that you do love them often. and on a regular basis.
I don't think it's anything remotely you being selfish at all.
Well, I am acutely away of not wanting to make it about me. Too many people make things that happen to others about themselves and I do not want to add to that trend.
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