Posted by Greg1959 on January 12, 2015 at 13:25:06 from (69.176.46.42):
In Reply to: Re: Crazy road trips posted by rrlund on January 12, 2015 at 11:50:46:
rrlund-Yup, milking does keep you tied to the far. Glad I never got into that.
Couple funny tales of raod trips to New River....
When my son was around 8 or 9 years old, I took him on a guided white-water rafting trip.
Around lunch time we landed at a ramp to disembark and be transported to the next set of rapids. We boarded a school bus and drove down a narrow one lane blacktop road. We were served lunch in styrofoam flip top trays. My son had a window seat as I sat next to him on the aisle side.
We opened or trays and looked at it. The meal contained Humus, Tofu and bean sprouts. I turned around to check what others on the bus was getting. They were just eating away and talking about how great the trip had been so far.
Then I heard the click-click-click sound of the bus window being lowered from beside me. As I turned to see what my son was doing, the whole bus became silent. By the time I grasped what had happened he had dumped the entire lunch, styrofoam tray and all out the window. The entire bus erupted into screams. The bus driver stopped the bus on this one lane road. The other passengers were screaming like they had just lost their first born. I tried to rectify the situation by explaining that I would have him go back and pick up the items he had discarded. The bus driver said 'no, we need to get to the next dock so everyone can continue the trip. Plus, we are blocking other buses behind us if we take time to block the road.. I was embarrassed to say the least, but we continued on.
We were shunned for the remainder of the trip.
The other road trip was....
Every 6 months, my company had me train someone from their partnership with another refinery in Oman (East Africa).
One time, I got a guy that wanted to try fishing, he had never been and saw it on TV. His name was Mohammod Alnumanie Aldibaid(sp).
Anyway, I took him for a three day trip to fish the Gauley river in West Virginia for small mouth bass.
Showed him how to bait his hook and other things...like casting and techniques.
I move to another area to fish but still remain close to him. The Gauley is filled with boulders and you jump from boulder to boulder to fish from them.
I look over to check on him and he is standing there raising his rod up and down, just enough to bring his hook out of the water.
I hop rocks back to him and ask him what he is doing. He says 'That is how they do it on the American cartoons I watch'. So, I explain it all to him again
A little while later, as I am standing on a boulder, I look across the river to check on him. He is in his underwear, thigh deep in rushing water with his arms splayed out in the water. I thought what is he doing? Is he trying to catch the fish by his hands.
So, I hop rocks back to him and ask him 'What are you doing?'. He replies 'I tried to cast like you said but the front half of the pole came off and sunk into the water'.
I got him back on a rock and showed him that all he had to do was reel his line in and the front half of the rod would come with it. The look on his his eyes was like he had understood the Theory of Relativity.
This was in August. High temps and high humidity Me and two buddies had caught some fish. Evening comes and we clean the fish and build a small campfire to cook the fish on.
Skeeters start coming in. So we eat and everyone beds down for the night.
Get up at daylight and notice Mohammud shivering like crazy and bundled up. I ask him what is wrong. He says 'I have Malaria and did not bring my quinine medication'.
I got a little upset and told him 'Here we are in a mosquito infested area and you did not tell me that you had Malaria?'
I grabbed my pistol and my two buddies jumped on me before I could get a shot off.
Everyone made it back safe and sound.
Sorry this took so long. Just thinking about some of the memories.
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