snapperbait
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Mr. Ladyfish quoted in a thread by Stiff Nibbles:<br /><br />
<br /> <br /><br />My Pop had a old red coleman lantern.. He was crazy about that thing... He'd always say, "Boy.. They don't make em' like this anymore".. <br /><br />On night many moons ago, My Pop, Grandpa, an I went speck ,aka crappie, fishing at the Pahokee marina pier on lake Okeechobee... <br /><br />The fishing that nite was'nt very good.. I think we caught one, if I remeber correctly.. Anywhoo.. I got bored like kids do and started fumbling around in my tackle box and just monkey'n around.. Well, Pops saw me monkey'n round by his prized lantern that he had set up on the rail to attract fish, and him figuring I was gonna knock it in the lake, he pipes up, "I'm gonna move that down here by me and Grandpa, before you knock it in the lake".. He proceeds to pick it up and moves down and sets it back up on the rail down by him...<br /><br />Now enters, That feeling you get about something ahead of time... I got it.. <br /><br />Not too long after the moving of the lantern (so I would'nt knock it in the lake ), we decided to call it quits for the night.. Pop starts rolling up his cane poles, and lays them against the rail right next to the lantern.. Pop then decided he wanted a cigarette.. Pulled his pack of smokes and lighter outta his pocket and dropped the lighter.. He bent down to pick his lighter, and while doing so he turns around and steps sideways right into the cane poles he's got laid against the rail right next to his prized lantern..<br /><br />I watched as the lantern teeter-totter'd paralell to the rail for a split second before the "plop"....<br /><br />I think folks probably heard him cussing all the way across the lake in Okeechobee city durring his failed attempts to fish his lantern outta the lake... <br /><br />I wanted to laugh like a mad man, but never made a peep that nite.... Grandpa, (Dad's Father-inlaw) on the other hand, laughed his butt off...
Reminds me about Pops Coleman lantern, and a feeling I got once upon a time..
<br /> <br /><br />My Pop had a old red coleman lantern.. He was crazy about that thing... He'd always say, "Boy.. They don't make em' like this anymore".. <br /><br />On night many moons ago, My Pop, Grandpa, an I went speck ,aka crappie, fishing at the Pahokee marina pier on lake Okeechobee... <br /><br />The fishing that nite was'nt very good.. I think we caught one, if I remeber correctly.. Anywhoo.. I got bored like kids do and started fumbling around in my tackle box and just monkey'n around.. Well, Pops saw me monkey'n round by his prized lantern that he had set up on the rail to attract fish, and him figuring I was gonna knock it in the lake, he pipes up, "I'm gonna move that down here by me and Grandpa, before you knock it in the lake".. He proceeds to pick it up and moves down and sets it back up on the rail down by him...<br /><br />Now enters, That feeling you get about something ahead of time... I got it.. <br /><br />Not too long after the moving of the lantern (so I would'nt knock it in the lake ), we decided to call it quits for the night.. Pop starts rolling up his cane poles, and lays them against the rail right next to the lantern.. Pop then decided he wanted a cigarette.. Pulled his pack of smokes and lighter outta his pocket and dropped the lighter.. He bent down to pick his lighter, and while doing so he turns around and steps sideways right into the cane poles he's got laid against the rail right next to his prized lantern..<br /><br />I watched as the lantern teeter-totter'd paralell to the rail for a split second before the "plop"....<br /><br />I think folks probably heard him cussing all the way across the lake in Okeechobee city durring his failed attempts to fish his lantern outta the lake... <br /><br />I wanted to laugh like a mad man, but never made a peep that nite.... Grandpa, (Dad's Father-inlaw) on the other hand, laughed his butt off... 