Fishing

“Hey you. What are you doing down there?” asks an elderly gentleman as he shines his flashlight close to the water’s edge, on a person leaning up against a large rock.

A pretty faced girl turns her head to face the man questioning her and sees he is also with a boy about 8 years old.

“I’m fishing,” she tells him.

“Fishing?” the old man asks.

“Yes, fishing.” she replies.

A confused looking child asks his great grandpa, “What is fishing papa?”

“Well, a long time ago there used to be sea creatures swimming in these waters and people would have poles with strings attached to them with a hook and some bait on the hook to entice these creatures to take a bite. These creatures, called fish, would then get caught by the hook so the people with the poles could bring them ashore for eating.”

“Those people were called fishermen,” tells the girl. “Kind of sexist if you ask me, since women fished too!”

“How do you know so much about fishing young girl?” asks the old man.

“I read all about it in a book by Samuel Clemens,” the girl says.

Before anyone else can say anything the boy jumps in by asking, “Now what’s a book?”

His great grandpa answers, “It’s how we used to read before your school implant was attached to your brain so you could visualize the school’s reading material in front of your eyes.”

“But why is she fishing papa?”

“Yes little lady. Why are you fishing?” he asks. “There’s no longer any fish in this lake.”

“Sir,” she says flatly to the stranger. “It's not all about catching the fish. It’s about serenity. About getting in tune with oneself. Relaxing.”

“Isn’t that what your frontal lobe stimuli implant is for?” he asks.

“This is a natural way of doing it,” she says. “I believe they used to call it, being in Zen with the fish.”

 

This is,

Saying I Wrote This On My Cell Phone So The Color Came Out Blue

Jim Hauenstein,

And,

“I go fishing for reasons other than catching fish.”
- Fennel Hudson -

That is my story and I am sticking to it!

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