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So the other week we replace the idler pulley and serp belt in my truck due to a squeak.  A week later I made the comment to my husband that my truck is much faster now, he gave me a odd look and asked what I was talking about.  I told him I was thanking him for fixing my truck and that its much faster now, he laughed and said nothing he did would make it faster.  So dumb founded I was still believing it was faster, I said well either way its much faster....The other night after medicating I keep thinking about how much fast my truck was, then it hit me and I couldn't stop laughing, I was laughing out loud, woke him up and he asked whats so funny.  I said maybe my truck is faster now because my leg is working better.  :lol:

 

 

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Hopefully some one might enjoy this story.  I wrote it down several years ago.  It describes a pleasant day on the water in a small boat with my fishing buddy, my cocker spaniel, Jed.

 

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> In retrospect it could never have succeeded.  Of course, I didn't know
> that for several years so I continued to try to make Jed a good
> fishing/boating buddy.  If I lived on the water it may have been different
> but the teaching went slowly as for most of Jed's life I took just two
> 1-week fishing vacations a year.  Even then the boat was very often too
> full to take him along fishing.  When he did go out I was able to train
> him, for the most part, to stay in the front part of the boat.  There were
> two reasons for that.  First and foremost, my fishing tackle (and hooks)
> were in the back with me.  Secondly, lots of stuff was in the back of the
> boat with me so it became difficult to get the boat to plane out (ride on
> top of the water) when accelerating.  Jed became ballast that I could
> shift to the bow with a simple 'get in the front' command.
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> One day just Jed and I went out for a morning's fishing.  By about noon or
> so on that day the fish had quit biting and I was ready to call it a
> morning.  It was such a beautiful day that I decided to take a cruise
> around the lake rather than heading straight for the cottage.  In order to
> get the most out of my little 8 horse motor I decided to move some of crap
> from the back of the boat up towards the center bench seat.  I also had my
> power ballast - Jed - ready to do his part.  I open a beer, fire up the
> motor, 'Get in the Front', and away we go.  Man, is it ever nice!  The
> wind rushes past us, pulling Jed's ears straight back.  He looks a lot
> like the carved wooden prow of the old time sailing ships as he's standing
> stretched between the frontmost bench seat and the bow.   The boat planes
> out nicely and we are skimming the water at full throttle.
>
> Suddenly the motor chokes once and completely dies.  All of my fishing
> stuff that I had piled on the center seat falls to the bottom of the boat.
> 'What the Hell', I exclaim.  I look back at the engine to see if I can
> figure out what happened - why did it quit?  I notice that I had placed
> the cooler on top of the rubber gas line.  The engine ran fine while there
> was gas in it, but after that was gone it couldn't draw any more from
> the tank and quit.  As I lean down to move the cooler I am suddenly
> startled by movement just a few feet away in the water.   Out of the
> corner of my eye I see something alive - it's swimming, it's snorting a
> bit, it's brown, and it's right there!  Possibly it's a deer or an elk or
> even that infamous Lake Monster?  The adrenaline was starting to pump.
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> No, no....it's OK, it's not a monster.  Turning toward it now I see that
> it's just Jed, my fishing buddy.  The same rapid slowdown that shifted
> everything in the boat also launched Jed into the water.  The boat coasted
> past him as he dove.  Apparently as I caught sight of him he was just
> surfacing and was now swimming to catch up.  He caught up in just a couple
> of seconds but it was a minute or two before I quit laughing long enough
> to be able to pull him aboard.  Needless to say, it was some time before
> he wanted to ride way up front again.

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