Fishing and Tommy Boy

Patrick, my dad and I just got back from Canada on a fishing trip.  As you can see, Patrick is turning out to be quite the fisherman.  (He caught the biggest fish only 10 minutes after arriving at the camp!) 

 

I could not help remembering the many fishing trips we all took with Brian.  We were fortunate to go to many places and occasionally caught some big fish.  (We usually just drank beer, told lies and had a blast everywhere we went.) After one Costa Rica trip, Brian asked to see my carry-on bag after we cleared customs.  He quickly rifled through stuff and pulled out the airplane’s life preserver that I thought was under my seat!  (Brian placed it in my bag without my knowledge.) He simply said “thanks.”  I was dumbfounded and said “Hey!  I could have been busted! I think that is a felony.”  Brian mumbled “Umm…yeah… maybe…but, you didn’t get caught and it would have been great to see your reaction if you did.”   I was speechless for one of the few times in my life. 

 

I later learned Brian pulled out the life preserver at a Xavier party.  He told me it was just like the pre-flight safety announcement scene in “Tommy Boy” where Chris Farley opened the preserver and almost choked.  Brian said it was just like the movie as the preserver nearly choked him as it inflated!  He laughingly told me he struggled to find a fork – so he could stab it several times – in order to breathe.   Brian also thought it was funny the FAA would probably get a notice that a life preserver, previously on a plane from Costa Rica, would suddenly go off at 2 AM in Cincinnati, Ohio.  He laughed thinking about some FAA nerd trying to figure it out.

 

 

As the title of the blog says….”Only Brian!”