BE CAREFUL OF THAT FISH

Here's another toned down post so as not to get you readers too excited.

PART TWO - BE CAREFUL OF THAT FISH

My friend Rod is scared of most things. He's a bit timid not unlike Richard (of RBB) who's afraid of cows, heights, mice, fast driving, elegant menswear shops and tritones.

Today when I was coming home from the gym I saw Rod parked by the side of the road loading his kayak onto his trailer. I stopped to give him a hand reminding him that he had told me that he would be out fishing this morning and that we had agreed that I would get my kayak out and go out to join him. He didn't stay out for very long even though the water was calm and it hadn't started to rain yet.
He said that he was very nervous about fishing on his own as someone had told him that if he caught a large kingfish it could tip him out of his kayak or drag him out of the harbour and out into the ocean blue.

KAYAK FISHING

I thought that he was joking at first but he was serious. He was genuinely afraid.

It was kind of like Hemingway's The Old Man And The Sea.

I listened attentively and sympathised with him I scoffed and called him a silly old bugger.