JAWS!!!

I was flipping the channels last night and ran across the movie "Jaws". It reminded me of a good story. It was the same creek me and Ronnie fed the wasp larvae to the bream. You had to be careful because this creek had alligators that lived in it. They never bothered anything, but they sure would scare the hell out of you. There was a particular alligator that lived to the left of Ronnie's house. This alligator was about thirteen feet long. It was the biggest alligator Ronnie and I had ever seen, so he named him Jaws. Ronnie's brother-in-law, David Seymour, used to be a guide in the Okefenokee Swamp for eight years and had seen a lot of alligators, but he said that this alligator was the biggest one he had ever seen. Ronnie wouldn't get in the water if Jaws was around. Well, one day, Ronnie, David, and I were building a boat house. Ronnie and David were in the water holding up a twenty foot pole so I could jet it into the ground with a pump. I had started up the pump and suddenly got a wild idea to scare the hell out of Ronnie. I hollered, "There's Jaws." Ronnie screamed and splashed up the ladder. I laughed so hard, I think I wet my pants. Man, was he mad. He said, "Son, your time is coming." The next day, bright and early when we started to work, sure enough, there was Jaws, lying in his same old spot. We didn't go in the water until after Jaws had left and had been gone for about an hour. We just worked on top of the dock. We decided it was safe to go in the water and I said, "Okay, I'll start the pump." Ronnie, David, and Judy were all standing on the dock watching. I had to start the pump with a pull rope, so I wrapped the rope around the crank and gave it a good pull, but the rope broke. I was splashing around trying to figure out what had happened when Ronnie yelled, "Look out, there's Jaws." It scared me so bad that I ran into the dock, bumped my head, and got all scratched up. By the time I got up on the bank I realized what he had done because they were all laughing their guts out. After that, we finished the boat house with no more Jaws jokes.

Thanks,
Gene Odom