Justdroppedin
01-12-2020, 01:46 AM
We never got to spend too much time together, so it meant a lot to me to spend time with him. He was really getting on in age - his teeth were gone and he usually mumbled unless he was frustrated. You could understand him if he yelled, but that was rare since he was such a gentle soul. His mind was still sharp, he just had a hard time expressing himself.
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What I loved was that none of this mattered, because he just had this amazing knack for the sport. No matter where we set up, he had great luck catching fish. And you could see in his eye that it made him so happy that he was still good at something as he started to slip at so many other things.
Personally, I couldn't seem to catch a fish to save my life, and it didn't really bother me. I just loved that time we spent together. But one day, I finally decided to ask him about it.
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"Grandpa, how is it that you catch so many fish while I barely get any from the same spot?"
He just mumbled incoherently, the way he always did. I asked him again, and he just mumbled again. I decided not to press any further, but he could see in my eye that it bugged me that I couldn't understand him.
So he leaned over the bait bucket, spit a huge wad of something into it, and yelled YOU'VE GOT TO KEEP YOUR WORMS WARM.
https://www.animatedimages.org/data/media/157/animated-fishing-image-0088.gif
What I loved was that none of this mattered, because he just had this amazing knack for the sport. No matter where we set up, he had great luck catching fish. And you could see in his eye that it made him so happy that he was still good at something as he started to slip at so many other things.
Personally, I couldn't seem to catch a fish to save my life, and it didn't really bother me. I just loved that time we spent together. But one day, I finally decided to ask him about it.
https://www.animatedimages.org/data/media/157/animated-fishing-image-0136.gif
"Grandpa, how is it that you catch so many fish while I barely get any from the same spot?"
He just mumbled incoherently, the way he always did. I asked him again, and he just mumbled again. I decided not to press any further, but he could see in my eye that it bugged me that I couldn't understand him.
So he leaned over the bait bucket, spit a huge wad of something into it, and yelled YOU'VE GOT TO KEEP YOUR WORMS WARM.