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.