Yesterday morning I got to the launch before anyone else - sitting in the middle of the gravel launch and parking area is this huge straw hat (almost a sombrero). Someone had driven over the hat damaging the crown. Before lining up on the launch, I got out, looked at the hat and moved it to a concrete post and "tied it" down. The hat had a WSU cougar emblem on crown; the bottom of the rim was covered with WSU emblems like "Go Cougs", "Cougs Rock"..... all that Cougar hype.
A couple hours later I see this boat crossing the lake towards me and recognize "the hat". I got to chuckling about it thinking "here's comes a Coug". As the guy got near I said "I recognize that hat". The guy responds, somewhat indignantly asking if I was the one that drove over it. After making peace he told me that the wind had blown his hat our of his van at 9:30 PM the night before. I made some comment about late night fishing and asked if he'd left the lot alone (he had).
I BLEW IT! Here was the absolute perfect opportunity for me to tell the guy "Hey Coug, you Couged your own hat" (as only a WSU Coug could do and then blame it on an Oregon Tech Hustlin' Owl).
The fishing was pretty good.
A couple hours later I see this boat crossing the lake towards me and recognize "the hat". I got to chuckling about it thinking "here's comes a Coug". As the guy got near I said "I recognize that hat". The guy responds, somewhat indignantly asking if I was the one that drove over it. After making peace he told me that the wind had blown his hat our of his van at 9:30 PM the night before. I made some comment about late night fishing and asked if he'd left the lot alone (he had).
I BLEW IT! Here was the absolute perfect opportunity for me to tell the guy "Hey Coug, you Couged your own hat" (as only a WSU Coug could do and then blame it on an Oregon Tech Hustlin' Owl).
The fishing was pretty good.
