While all of you are out enjoying a flat calm ocean, marlin, and tons of dolphin, I’m stuck over here in Germany this week flying on a mission. Y’alls reports are making me wanna go AWOL and come home!!
Anyway, the hotel we are staying in has a kind of mall downstairs. So I went to get a few things I needed. I was wearing a hat that has a Dolphin on the front of it. It’s in a sideways view. Good colors on it and everything. I like this hat.
I get to the elevator, the doors open for me to go back up and there in the elevator are two rough looking guys. They were clearly not in the military with their facial hair, earrings and such. The shorter of the two welcomes me into the elevator and the doors close. I’m only going two floors up. He looks at me and remarks, “I like your hat.” I think that maybe he is a fisherman too. How cool to talk fishing with someone all the way over here in Germany! Before I can even finish that thought, he opens his mouth and remarks, “that’s a Marlin.” I heard the record screech in my head like you hear in a movie with music playing.
I try to hold in the laugh and the facial expression that says “Wow, you are in idiot” because I’m pretty good at that apparently. Anyway, I correct him and tell him that it’s a Mahi Mahi. I say that because given what I was dealing with I didn’t want to explain “Dolphin” to them. He then comes back with, “OH YEAH! Mahi, right. Have you ever caught one?” I tell him I have. His partner speaks up and deepens the conversation by adding, “It looks like a catfish that got punched in the face.” I’m stunned . . . . . He then asks if they are good fish. I tell him they fight great, can get really big, and taste amazing. Right about that point, the doors open and it’s my floor.
I walk down the hall back to my room laughing out loud. I know they probably don’t know any better, but it made me laugh and I wanted to share. So the next time you bring in that Mahi, look for a fist mark on his face and catfish whiskers apparently.
