Not living right, maybe. Is not karma, I'm too busy licking wounds to mess with anyone. I think the man upstairs just has a very funny sense of humor. Or maybe he is preparing me for something special, Here is a list of things over the last twenty years, some my fault others not, but each has a good story.
1- First boat down around 1993 in Fayett county 12 ft river john with 9.9 tiller. Swam the 9.9 about a hundred yards to the bank, almost drowned trying to save that little motor but I was more scared of Jim Thompson "my buddies dad who owned the motor" than I was of drowning.
2- Dollar point-1994 stingray through the leg just inside the achilles. ER room- several month recovery, I do not recommend this one
3-Matagorda Troutmasters tourney- my partner hooks me in the face and neck with a mirror lure. ER room and back to tourney. not too bad
4- Matagorda late November 2001 stuck my Soalwater( south shoreline east end) on a Wednesday evening no cell phone, by myself, spent the night out there as a cold front rolled through. That one sucked
5- East bay Galveston in December 2003 rolled over into 55 degree water. The worst part about that one was the mosquito attack at the refuge during the night trying to get the boat back on the trailer by hand. All the mosquito spray was in the bay and i looked like some peppered my face with number 8 shot for about a week. Good memories
6- 2004 Hauling tail in skinny shell north of Bird Island East Matagorda, I launched my self off my boat an onto an exposed shell bed razor bed". ER doc picked shell out of my hands and *** for a while. That was just plain stupid. I knew it was going to happen but I just couldn't stop myself
7. 2010 Trinity marsh , I was with Sarge,Harry and Emmit and we were cruising along in an Air boat on dry land shooting hogs when we hit a cane patch and went air born. As I was flying through the air with a loaded shotgun in my hand I was just praying that I would not shoot my buddies. When we come to a stop me and Sarge were under the boat with the motor still running and fuel pouring everywhere in a pile of dried cane. Perfect recipe to roast us up right there. On that one when I got out from under the boat, I walked over to act like I was going to pee, and had a little chat with the man up stairs and said are you trying to tell me something. At that moment four other air-boats pulled up to rescue us so I took it as a sign that he wanted me to keep playing.
8. I still don't know how I did this one- 2011- David and I were on the Boatright on the San Jack river bow-fishing. We both drew back on a large fish and 1-2-3 pop. I feel the bow string slap me in the face and as I reach up I feel the arrow going into my face and out the side of my neck. So I did what any good ******* would and try to pull it out but it keeps hanging up on the slide stopper. I tell David to get a screwdriver and unscrew the stopper so I can get this fu#$%ing thing out of my face. It slides out easy and didn't hurt near as much as you would think. We looked for that fish for a little bit but decided I should probably go to the ER.
9. OCT 2012- David,Sarge and myself donated a trip for a fundraiser for ****-dog that has terminal cancer. So we head out to Sabine for a fishing, gigging combo. Once it gets dark we head down the ICW and get hung up on a sunken barge, "no big deal" right. About 30 minutes later of pushing pulling we managed to tuner over one bad *** boatright. My last words to David as I was in the water standing on the barge, were "don't worry I got It, hammer down" my bad. Everyone was ok and our buddy that is dying from cancer had the best attitude. Quote from ****-Dog " its all just a bunch of $##t that you cant take with you"
Hope you enjoyed, feel free to have fun at my expense because as you can see I can take it
lol
Keith Varner