re: Share a hilarious story that happened to you

Frog gigging and running trot lines with a guy we called "fat boy" when I was in HS on Bayou Bodcau. He was terrified of snakes. I saw a snake slithering toward the boat in the moonlight and used my paddle to situate the boat where the snake was headed straight for him. When it was within a couple feet of the boat I yelled "snake" and pointed it out. He grabbed a paddle and started whacking, and the snake ended up on the paddle and on his arm. Fat boy flipped backwards and him, the snake, myself, frogs and fish all went into the bayou. It got worse for fat boy when the snake popped up right beside him and I thought he was gonna drown.

Later that night after we had been drinkin a bit, for some reason fat boy climbed this pine tree above our little camp. It was raining and I had trouble getting the fire started. The other fellas had gone to town to get more beer. In my drunken state, I poured a large quantity of gas on the fire, loaded it down with pine straw and lit it up. Fat boy unfortunately was on a limb about 12 feet above the fire and the ensuing fireball knocked him out of the tree, singed his hair and took out his eyebrows. Obviously, this was the last time ole fat boy and I went camping together.