Not quite a fashion statement

I stood in the kitchen getting my lunch together for work, Gage, our grandson having just woken up walks in wearing just his overnight pull-up. “Gage please go get dressed ,” I told him and he stood with his arms across giving me his mean look, “Go on, get that pull-up off and get dressed naked boy.”

He stamps off, “I’m not naked boy!”

“What are you then?”

“I am butthead,” he replies and tears off towards the kid’s room.

Shortly after, he returns buck naked except for a canvas belt wrapped around his waist.

“Er, I don’t think that is what we would call being dressed.”

He laughed then ran off again shouting “Butthead!”

Naked fisherman

I phoned my parents as I do every week, Mum told me about Dad’s latest fishing trip. Now he has retired Dad has joined several fishing clubs and gets to fish when ever he wants and really enjoys himself. He apparently has tons of equipment and if isn’t fishing spends his time in the fishing tackle store.

On his latest trip he was trying out a new bait alarm, which when fitted to the fishing rod, alarms and indicates when a fish takes the bait. After a short while on the lake the alarm sounded and he went to grab the rod, but the fish swam so hard it pulled the rod into the water and snagged it on some reeds across the lake. Try as he might Dad couldn’t get the rod back; he tried hooking it with his other rod and line to no avail.

For some reason he decided that he would go into the lake and retrieve the rod himself, so he stripped off and waded into the lake. He told me;

“…when the cold water reached my bum I realized if I went in any further I would have a heart attack as it was so cold…”

so he got out and called his brother who came and helped him get his rod and equipment back.

Mum was flabbergasted when he related his latest fishing escapade and told him he was lucky no one else was about to see him;

“There were a couple of guys fishing across the lake when I went in, but they soon left,”

he told her. Mum scolded him telling him he was 72 years old not 27 anymore.

A little while later they were making the bed and as Mum was putting the sheet on the bed, she asked Dad if he went into the lake where his wet underpants were, Dad replied that they weren’t wet because he had stripped off completely. Mum had to leave the bedroom and Dad told me she was in the hall crying from laughing so hard.

As they recounted this on the phone I too was laughing so hard, in fact all three of us were crying, I haven’t laughed so hard in a while.

I forgot to ask if Dad caught any fish that day.