You can't teach an old guide...
Oh no!
There gonna try to re-ejumacate me!
No, please!
I'm an old guide. I don't need no new tricks. Besides, my head already hurts from tryin' to keep up with all this teck-no-lodgic stuff as it is.
Now yer gonna teach me 'bout Kennebec history and culcha?
I'll never make it down the river with all that new information floating around in my brain.
I may forget where Big Mama is, or Magic Falls... all becuz you wanted to make us guides smaaaater.
Next thing you know they're gonna want us to talk to the customers instead of just yelling commands at 'em.
I can just see it now...
"Both sides ahead! Dig it in! Oh, by the way, have I told you about Benedict Arnold...?"
Can you really teach an old river guide new tricks? I wonda.
Have I told you all about the history of the Carrying Place?
Teaching guides to offer more than gutteral commands and dirty jokes is like asking fish to sing opera.
Besides, we've been teaching Kennebec River history to customers for years. Personally, I have taught hundreds of my customers about Benedict Arnold's concrete outhouse located a mile upstream from takeout (some mistakenly think its a CFS monitoring station...). I have also taught people how long it takes a deer to turn into a moose and that the river's depth is always knee high to a duck. How could there possibly be more to teach?
Posted by Pete
November 18, 2005 12:54 PM
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