Little Prick Strikes

June 3, 2011
We actually had a sort of plan today to see some of Beaufort, this being the first time Bear has felt like getting ashore for some extensive tourism in this place. To get the most of the weekend, we decided to rent a roller skate from Enterprise and get an idea about what lies beyond the docks on shore. Enterprise was to meet me at the dock office at 1200 today and we had a plan. I was a bit late getting some boat duties done and had to rush to meet the fellow. At 1200 on the dot, I started to step on the dock steps and noticed just before I stepped on them that they were slightly askew with the dock but were firmly in place for the step over dead center. Just as I made the move, I am certain Little Prick, the boat troll aboard took some tactical action to, at the speed of light, move those steps. There could be no other explanation other than covert action on that critter’s part. I am not sure how it happened other than via perhaps a hidden access port in the hull, but I now feel at the last moment LP moved that dock step just enough so that when I transferred all my petite weight, that dock step rotated and went overboard at the speed of blink. Were it not for my cat-like reflexes, it might have turned out way worse than it did. As it was, there were two casualties. Most of the documents in my wallet will dry and I can save others by retiring them. The main casualty was my new IPhone 4. It was submerged long enough to give Little Prick satisfaction to the max. The war on the ships terrorist is hereby escalated. The witnesses of my gainer into the water have since moved on and there is peace at the dock tonight.