CATransplant
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The year was 1970, and I was not too long out of the USAF and had returned to college, somewhat older and a little wiser....very little. Just 25 years old and, well, with the exuberance of youth.
Those were the days of the hippies in California, of course. Well, I had a boat, of all things, even though I had little money. It wasn't much, but one person could ski behind it, even with three others in the boat.
So, one sunny afternoon in the middle of the week, my roommate and I, along with our girl friends, decided that the afternoon would be better spent on the water than in classes, so it was off to the lake.
I will confess, at this point, that we indulged in a little of the smoke from an illegal herb on our way to the lake (I gave all that up decades ago), and were in pleasant moods when we launched the boat on a lake that was so uncrowded that it seemed empty.
Off we motored to a favorite cove for waterskiing. With nobody around, apparently, someone wondered what it would be like to waterski naked. Well, no sooner thought than carried out, we soon found out.
We were having great fun, each taking a turn at skinny-skiing, enjoying the nice weather and sunshine. In the boat, we had our suits on, but the person on the skis was wearing nothing but sunshine.
Imagine our surprise when the sheriff's boat tooled up the cove, with lights flashing.
Fortunately, it was one of the charming girlfriends on the skis at that time, and the deputies in the boat let us off with a stern warning. I think they may have been distracted from their duties just a bit.
I doubt they'd have been as understanding if it had been me or my roommate on the skis at the time.
Those were the days of the hippies in California, of course. Well, I had a boat, of all things, even though I had little money. It wasn't much, but one person could ski behind it, even with three others in the boat.
So, one sunny afternoon in the middle of the week, my roommate and I, along with our girl friends, decided that the afternoon would be better spent on the water than in classes, so it was off to the lake.
I will confess, at this point, that we indulged in a little of the smoke from an illegal herb on our way to the lake (I gave all that up decades ago), and were in pleasant moods when we launched the boat on a lake that was so uncrowded that it seemed empty.
Off we motored to a favorite cove for waterskiing. With nobody around, apparently, someone wondered what it would be like to waterski naked. Well, no sooner thought than carried out, we soon found out.
We were having great fun, each taking a turn at skinny-skiing, enjoying the nice weather and sunshine. In the boat, we had our suits on, but the person on the skis was wearing nothing but sunshine.
Imagine our surprise when the sheriff's boat tooled up the cove, with lights flashing.
Fortunately, it was one of the charming girlfriends on the skis at that time, and the deputies in the boat let us off with a stern warning. I think they may have been distracted from their duties just a bit.
I doubt they'd have been as understanding if it had been me or my roommate on the skis at the time.
