A
Yeah, I remember learning how to ski, oh, I guess I was seven or eight years old and the lake that we learned on was the smaller of the two that we had access to and it was maybe fifteen, twenty acres and it was, uh, it had a lot of, uh, turtles in it. And I got all ready to go and I was down in the water and, and set to go and, uh, and just as that boat took off, a turtle bit me in the middle of the back.
B
Oh.
A
It didn't hurt too much, but it bit enough to where I let go. And the boat went off without me and I reached back there and s, pushed him away and got out of the water a, a while and, and, uh, it didn't even leave a mark. It was just a little nibble and so I told everybody what happened and they go, oh, yeah, sure, you know.
B
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A
And so I get back down in there and, and I'll be if he didn't do it again. This time a little earlier and, and I had let go before then and, before they took off this time and, and swatted him away. So I moved over a, a few feet in the water and got out of his little realm where he was living underneath the dock and, uh, managed to get up. Didn't go very far, but I got up. And it, it was a nice, uh, nice long skiing career, but now I've gotten to where skiing is just kind of wears me out more than it does thrill me. I've, I've, uh, done about all I dare do on skis. You know, skiing on one and jumping around here and there and I, I, I know how you can get injured doing much more than that and I just can't risk it right now being a head of the family and the breadwinner and all that. Just, uh, can't take the risk I did as a dumb teenager, I guess. So life just changes a little bit in that respect. I'd kind of like, someday, to maybe end up on a pair of skis that, that doesn't have a, uh, well, what they call trick skis. They'll allow you to ski backwards. I haven't cr-, managed to get a hold on that, uh, craft yet, but, uh,
B
That sounds like a real challenge.