Thursday, April 5, 2007

Day Thirty-four: Cherish These Moments

One sunny afternoon a small boy goes fishing with his grandfather. They push the boat out into the small lake. The only disturbance is the slight ripple of their wake on the glass-like surface of the water. Everything is calm and peaceful.
When they reach the middle of the lake the boy's grandfather opens up his tackle box and prepares the line to cast. He casts far out from the boat and slowly reels it in. They sit in silence while the old man casts again and again. The boy grows restless and begins to fidget in the boat, rocking it slightly. His grandfather says, "don't rock the boat, just stay still so you won't scare away the fish."
"I'm bored," the boy replies, "can I cast the line?"
His grandfather thinks for a moment, "can your dick touch your ass?" he asks his grandson.
"Of course not." the boy says.
"Then no, you cannot cast the line." his grandfather answers.
The boy sits while his grandfather fishes, growing more and more impatient. After an hour without a single fish biting the old man decides to give up and pulls a beer from the cooler under his seat. "Can I have a beer?" his grandson asks.
Remembering how easily he deterred the boy earlier the old man says, "can your dick touch your ass?"
"No." the boy replies.
His grandfather takes a long pull from the beer and smiles to himself thinking how easy it is to manipulate a child. When he finishes half the beer he pulls a cigar out of his front pocket and lights it. "Can I smoke a cigar?" his grandson asks.
"Can your dick touch your ass?" the old man replies.
The boy sits in silence, frustrated that he didn't get to do anything the entire afternoon. His grandfather says, "but you can row us back while I smoke this one and finish my beer."
When they get back to the dock the boy grabs his bag from the boat and starts rummaging through it. He pulls out a bag of cookies and begins to eat them. His grandfather can smell that they are oatmeal raisin cookies, his favorite kind. "Can I have a cookie?" he asks his grandson.
"Can your dick touch your ass?" the boy says.
"Of course it can" his grandfather assures him.
The grandson replies, "then go fuck yourself."

2 comments:

Tara said...

That's a good one.

Anonymous said...

I am with Tara on that one.