On Mon, 19 Mar 2001 10:42:23 +1100, David Strike <[log in to unmask]>
wrote:

>On Saturday, March 17, 2001 6:33 PM, Mike wrote - in response to Viv's:
>
>> > Wot funny things have you witnessed? Oh, other than watching a certain
>> > somebuddy swim back to the WRONG boat ;-))
>
>> What a hoot!  Personally I have never done any of these things......
>
>Mate!  I wish that I could say that!  :-)  At various times, I've hopped
>into the water without fins; or a weight belt, and even forgot to turn the
>gas on once or twice, (and then been obliged to whisper to a buddy to
>surreptitiously turn it on before anyone else noticed - vain hope!)  :-)

If not for the fact that I no longer COULD do all three on the SAME
dive (weight-integrated BCD :-)).

Buddy??  What buddy?  My good wife was still on the boat, finishing
gearing up  :-)  But self-reliance and the practiced manoeuver of
removing the BCD and turning it and the tank around in 3 seconds or
less to turn the gas on, no one would have noticed anything unusual
except for my return to the boat to get my fins.  :-))

ANTICIPATION and SELF-RESCUE -- two of the greatest lessons in
scuba diving I learned from the Rescue course.


>(great story snipped) :-)
>
>> The young lady pulled the truck into the parking area, got out and
>> asked if we would give her a ride back into town....... We did.... :-)
>
>I'd have loved to have been in the car on that ride back!  :-)
>
>Strike

Our Southern expression is much more colorful than that.  We would
say, "I'd have loved to have been the fly on the wall in that truck." :-)

-- Bob.