On the way back from Columbus, I saw two flashing signs along the median of the northbound lanes of Interstate 71 which announced "Traffic Switch - March 21." Did I miss something? Are we changing to driving on the left instead of the right side? I couldn't find anything anywhere about it. I'm not changing. After all, we were supposed to switch to the metric system 30 years ago; and most United States of Americans don't know the difference between a centipede and a centimeter.
I got home in time to watch the terrible movie, Spring Break Shark Attack, which proved my point about not going in any water in which you cannot see the bottom, cannot touch the bottom, or in which live things reside. You notice that those three things are in the disjunctive. I trace this back to nearly drowning when I was about seven years old at a deep, dark, fish-infested, natural lake, where the families living on our street used to go a few times a summer. Going down the sliding board was fun, but going under the dark, slimy coldness was no fun. The sun disappeared. Some kind of living thing whipped past my leg, leaving a bleeding gash. I couldn't see it because it was black. I couldn't breathe water the same as I could breathe air.
This may be the reason that fish give me the creeps, too.
My grandmother took me to Edgewater Park later in the summer ... to learn to swim ... in Lake Erie. I knew about lamprey eels.
Some old guys were playing baseball on the huge baseball field with the lighted scoreboard and sky-high grandstands. I told grandma I wanted to watch the baseball game. She obliged. She was very cool.
Can the other person who was watching the movie tell me if the slick guy who spiked the chick's drink and then tried to get in her pants was a just dessert for the sharks? I hope so.
Posted by Bill at March 20, 2005 11:58 PMThere are a group of people around here (in central, 6 hrs away from the beach, PA) that go scuba diving in local flooded mining holes. They say that all the mining equipment and stuff is still down there. It gives me the creeps just thinking about it. Not as much as the words "lamprey eel" though.
Posted by: elle at March 21, 2005 06:03 AMI love to swim in the lake and the ocean, but prefer clear water. I used to live on the Texas coast, went out deep sea fishing and I know what lives in those waters. Right after Jaws came out, I had a hard time not panicking everytime I went deeper than my ankles. Got over it... a little. Once when swimming in Cancun (whose turquoise waters are absolutely stunning) - out of the corner of my eye I saw a large underwater shadow swim fairly close to me - Jesus had nothing on me that day.
Posted by: Cowtown Pattie at March 21, 2005 10:22 PMSo you fall asleep before the end of the film too.
Posted by: Anji at March 22, 2005 02:28 AMSo you won't go shark-cage diving when you come to Cape Town? *lol*.
Anyhoo.... you should drive on the left side - you Americans drive on the wrong side of the road *wink*.