well i'll remember to remind him of that story
15 years from now in 2021....
i just hope that's his only ride in a police car.

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when i was just a little older than him....my brother took me fishing
down to the rivah (charles river)
so we're sitting there on this rusty old bridge quickly running out of worms....and i see an old dead kiver (sunfish) that i thought we could use for bait....and stand up...loose my balance and plunge right into the river....i couldnt swim at all but managed to dog paddle to the bridge piling underneath but couldn't grab onto anything because it was all green slime...
running out of energy, i grabbed a weed growing out of the cracks
and it quickly broke off....
sending me back into the current...
i dog paddled once again back to the piling
and this time ever so carefully i grabbed the last remaining weed
with just two fingers of each hand until i got the current to go underneath me....and managed to hang on long enough untill my brother
was able to climb down and pull me out.
.....with me crying from the stress....a neighbor called the cops
and i was driven home soaking wet and got grounded for almost
being drowned....
