A Fish Tale
A friend of mine just recently told me a story I found amusing:
A man was once into fishing. Really into fishing. The only problem was that he could never catch anything despite the fact that he had a boat, all the right gear, and like everybody else, prayed for luck. His wife would make fun of him for never having caught anything. In fact, she would make fun of him in front of his friends. Eventually it became a sore subject and our man had still not caught anything. One day, as he’s driving towards the harbor, he spys a man selling his catch on the side of the road. Our man pulls over and buys two fish, thinking all the while that this would teach his wife to make fun of him again! He puts the fish into the ice chest, loads his boat and motors out for his day of fishing. While relaxing in the sun, thinking of how he would surprise his wife, Fish and Game pull up along side him and ask for his license. He hands it to them without issue. They ask if he’d caught anything, to which he responded honestly. They point to the cooler and ask him to open it… he does and doing their job, they measure the catch. Well, for our man it turned out to be a bad day afterall. The fish he had purchased that morning were under the legal size. Our man was fined $300 and the fish were confiscated.
There’s a moral somewhere but regardless, it’s an interesting story.
