Fishin' for hooks

There's a couple of characters I know, Albert and Geehaw (pronounced like heehaw, with a hard G like gut). They're not exactly a pair of church goin' bible totin' do gooders if you catch my drift. But on the other hand they're not exactly Enron executives. They do a little poaching, maybe salvage the odd piece of junk that's not tied down, that kind of thing. They like to drink, although Gorman's been on the wagon since the last time he was was on a Lysol binge. Apparently, he had to be taken to the hospital, something about internal bleeding. Anyway I digress.

One day Geehaw comes up with this idea, it's actually a pretty good idea. He finds an old box spring mattress and burns it. He ties a a rope onto the old mattress and takes it down to this fishing hole at this creek. He makes sure no one is around when he's down at the creek. This is an old turny, twisty creek. There are plenty of places to fish in this creek but this one spot is pretty popular. The creek isn't to wide, you can cast your line across it. Geehaw takes the mattress and throws it into the middle of the creek. He takes the end of the rope and ties it around the stump of a tree nearby and hides the rest of the rope. Now you can't see the rope or the mattress.

Geehaw comes back to the creek in a month or so. He makes sure no one's around, he pulls out the box spring and you guessed it. There's a bunch of spoons caught in the box spring. He removes the spoons, throws the mattress back and covers up the rope. Pretty good deal I figure.

Geehaw makes one mistake though. He mentions this to Albert. Albert is down at the creek one day fishin' and he spots Geehaw's rope. Well, what's Albert supposed to do ? He hauls the box spring out, removes the spoons and throws the box spring back in.

Geehaw goes down to the creek for his monthly visit. In the same way a fisherman tends his nets or a trapper tends his traps(wow what an analogy). He pulls out the box spring and finds 1 or 2 spoons. He realizes he's been had. Then he realizes it can only have been Albert.

He sees Albert some time later and says "I know what you did you sneaky bugger."

Albert, of course knows what Geehaw is talking about, but denies anything "Hey man, it wasn't me !"

Geehaw grins and says "Don't play innocent with me, you were the only one I told."

Albert laughs "No way man, if something got stole' call the cops."

Now of course Geehaw didn't call the cops and he probably moved the box spring and he would probably move it on a regular basis. I doubt that Alfred ever found it again. I doubt that Geehaw will tell Albert anymore of his ideas. It's hard to say.