We have to breed some very stupid people up here.
I get off work this morning a little after 0830. Seeing how it’s Friday for me I get on one of my trikes and go for a ride.
The one I took is a new model and the more I ride the little rocket the more I like it.
http://www.greenspeed.com.au/gt3.html
It gets a lot of attention, as do most recumbent bikes and trikes. So it’s not unusual for people to stop me or come over when I stop and start up a conversation.
Today I went for a quick 30 mile trip taking a break at Corbin Park along the Spokane River. You should remember that place as we get a lot of dive calls there.
I stop on the boat ramp and I’m looking at the river when this homeless looking humanoid, maybe 25 years old at best approaches and starts talking about the trike. He has a couple of them.
After a couple of minutes he asks if I’m a diver. I say yes. He noticed my dive watch and thought he’d ask.
He asked how long I’ve been diving and I gave my usual response of, not very long. That has always led to some interesting conversations.
Then he proceeds to tell me he was INCHARGE of the Post Falls County Dive Team. I’m sure I had the deer in the headlights look
but I asked him what that was all about. I got quite an education.
I had no idea that you could be a diver for as long as he was at his age. I was amazed. I also didn’t know you could, with special Rescue Diver training, breathe Liquid Oxygen for real deep dives on Coeur d’Alene Lake which is a bottomless lake.
I asked what he did for a living. He doesn’t have a regular job but he gets paid Very Well by the city for his rescue skills saving peoples lives in the water.
You been here very long? No, I’m thinking about moving to Idaho but I live in Spokane right now. I have to do rescues in both areas. How the hell long does it take you to get from there to here? Not long the fly me all over by helicopter.
He finally asks, after digging a very nice hole, he asks, what do you do? Not much, I’m a Deputy Sheriff and I’ve been on the COUNTY Dive Team for a lot longer than you have been alive. Now the deer in the headlights look was on the other side.
Then, as if it was a scripted maneuver his cell phone rings. I know I’m old and my hearing might not be as good as it used to be but I didn’t hear it. Besides it looked like he just found it on the beach or out of a dumpster. I don’t think that thing has worked sense the prior owner flushed it down the toilet.:mooner:
He excused himself saying he had to take this important call and walked off.
This was almost a good as the shipmate that came into the diving locker telling us about the time he came across a shark with moss on his teeth at 600’. It was dark so he came back to the boat, got a flashlight and went back to get a better look at the shark. Hummmm, I didn’t think you got narced on the surface without some help from a can or bottle.
That did start my day off with a good laugh.
Gary D.
I get off work this morning a little after 0830. Seeing how it’s Friday for me I get on one of my trikes and go for a ride.
The one I took is a new model and the more I ride the little rocket the more I like it.
http://www.greenspeed.com.au/gt3.html
It gets a lot of attention, as do most recumbent bikes and trikes. So it’s not unusual for people to stop me or come over when I stop and start up a conversation.
Today I went for a quick 30 mile trip taking a break at Corbin Park along the Spokane River. You should remember that place as we get a lot of dive calls there.
I stop on the boat ramp and I’m looking at the river when this homeless looking humanoid, maybe 25 years old at best approaches and starts talking about the trike. He has a couple of them.
After a couple of minutes he asks if I’m a diver. I say yes. He noticed my dive watch and thought he’d ask. He asked how long I’ve been diving and I gave my usual response of, not very long. That has always led to some interesting conversations.
Then he proceeds to tell me he was INCHARGE of the Post Falls County Dive Team. I’m sure I had the deer in the headlights look
but I asked him what that was all about. I got quite an education.I had no idea that you could be a diver for as long as he was at his age. I was amazed. I also didn’t know you could, with special Rescue Diver training, breathe Liquid Oxygen for real deep dives on Coeur d’Alene Lake which is a bottomless lake.
I asked what he did for a living. He doesn’t have a regular job but he gets paid Very Well by the city for his rescue skills saving peoples lives in the water.
You been here very long? No, I’m thinking about moving to Idaho but I live in Spokane right now. I have to do rescues in both areas. How the hell long does it take you to get from there to here? Not long the fly me all over by helicopter.
He finally asks, after digging a very nice hole, he asks, what do you do? Not much, I’m a Deputy Sheriff and I’ve been on the COUNTY Dive Team for a lot longer than you have been alive. Now the deer in the headlights look was on the other side.
Then, as if it was a scripted maneuver his cell phone rings. I know I’m old and my hearing might not be as good as it used to be but I didn’t hear it. Besides it looked like he just found it on the beach or out of a dumpster. I don’t think that thing has worked sense the prior owner flushed it down the toilet.:mooner:
He excused himself saying he had to take this important call and walked off.
This was almost a good as the shipmate that came into the diving locker telling us about the time he came across a shark with moss on his teeth at 600’. It was dark so he came back to the boat, got a flashlight and went back to get a better look at the shark. Hummmm, I didn’t think you got narced on the surface without some help from a can or bottle.
That did start my day off with a good laugh.
Gary D.
