….on vacation!
First off make a list of everything you want to do. Then make a list of all the fishing equipment you want to take to accomplish this goal. Check the darn thing twice, nothing worse than getting all the way up to where you are going, and finding out you left something vital off the list.
Now, this second step is where you start packing your gear, clothing, electronics, whatever you might need. Check these items off your list as you pack them. The worse thing that can happen is you get there, you don’t have what you wanted, only to come back home and find the #$%& thing sitting on your kitchen counter. Have never had this happen to me 
but I hear tell its happened before to others.
Last tip of the day, have a list of neighbor’s phone numbers. You never know why you might need such a list, but it could come in handy when you least expect it. Like when you get this new fancy outboard motor on the perfect boat for fishing inland lakes with shallow portages, only to find the thing won’t start when you get there.
You play with it, you choke it, you make sure its in neutral, you make sure the gas line is attached, then you start letting a few choice four letter words fly out of your mouth. Then you realize that this fancy new motor, on your perfect boat for fishing inland lakes with shallow portages has a KEY INGNITION SYSTEM!!!!
Completely understandable, its a new motor, you have never had a outboard in all your 30 plus years of fishing that required a key start on the motor itself. You don’t want people to steal your boat and motor and be able to start it up, so you take the key out and store it someplace safe. Getting the key, was not on your list and so it slips your mind.
Now this is where having the neighbor’s phone number comes into play. You get to a phone booth, and yes smart alec, they still have them in places where cell phones do not get any signal!!! You call said neighbor, tell her where the “hidden” key is located to get into where the other key is located. Then you describe the floaty thingy that is attached to the key for the fancy new outboard. She sends the hubby to do the dirty work, luckily he understood about the floaty thingy attached to the key was and finds the item in short order.
The next step in this long drawn out process is for the neighbor to run to the local FedEx place and next day ship this item. This costs you 35 bills, because you forgot to put the key to the new fancy outboard ON YOUR LIST. The key travels by air from Romulus to Indianapolis, then some airport in Wisconsin, then into a van which is driven from this place in Wisconsin, across the Upper Peninsula to where you are located. Did I mention that it costs you 35 bucks for shipping a KEY only, but hey its better than packing up, cutting your trip short and heading home because you CANNOT START YOUR NEW FANCY MOTOR ON YOUR PERFECT BOAT FOR FISHING INLAND LAKES WITH SHALLOW PORTAGES!!!!
Now, again for the record, this has never happened to me but it could happen to anyone, SERIOUSLY. Specially if you don’t make your list of things to pack when you go on a trip. %^&*$@#
Fine, it did happen to me, there ya happy now???? What can be worse you ask, well the neighbor you call, just happens to be the local AVON lady, so now the whole town knows you forgot the key to the fancy new motor, for the perfect boat for fishing inland lakes with shallow portages….ugh!
