September 11, 2005
A new, cool fishing site
I spotted a link to new fishing web site called "FisherDiary.com". Figure I'll start logging some of my angling failures in our local life giving Perchlorate watershed.
I'm wandering over to Nimbus Flats @ Lake Natoma today to try for some panfish and perhaps a Trout. Maybe hit Mather Lake in the afternoon. Funny thing happened at Walmart in RC while I was buying line and some new collapsible chairs.
This psycho dude, who strangly reminded me of a truck driver at Lucky Produce I knew in the 1980s, walked up to me and exclaimed that
"All the fish have poison!; they all make you sick, they have Mercury, you'll be catching poison."
I just gave him the Onward and Upward (tm) thumbs up. What was unsettling about it, is that he reminded me of this truck driver I rememebered. I think his name was Dennis, and he'd served in Vietnam. He always spoke of working in the morgue over there, and how it "warped" him.
I was only a teenager when I knew him, so allot of his BS was fascinating to me. He once riddled off a tale about being so enraged by the "Kong" that he walked into the morgue, found a dead VC or NVA there and kicked the corpse's head in, and struggled to extricate his boot from the head.
My other bizarre memory of this man is that he used to carry a brief case, an unusual "accouterment" for a truck driver, and lock himself in our shop supervisors's office for hours at a time. The night shift mechanic (and my adopted older brother) Joe Perry would always tell me the guy was doing meth inside the office and, well, other things I won't lay out here.
It was just weird how this guy in Walmart resembeled this driver, 15 yrs later, he just had this look of fear in his eyes I remembered the briefcase touting truck driver having. His eyes, ringed by red circles of inflamation, like he was experiencing a Vulcan Blood fever, or a bad batch of Gack.
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