My Newbie is Showing...Part 3

BC: The Ice

Prompt: Ice truckers. I like this show. Semi trucks travel across frozen lakes in Alaska and Canada. Trucks jack knife and slide on the water and if they break through the ice, it won't end well. Would you like to drive a truck across the dangerous ice lakes or be a passenger on one? What are your thoughts on this?

So I live in Minnesota where Ice fishing is a big deal. When the ice gets a foot thick, the fishermen and their kids go out on the ice to catch some fish. There may be a few women who go, but there are certain biological issues that have most women saying: No freaking way!

I mention this because we had a real life ice trucker thing going on. My dad had a 2 ton pickup and piled me, my husband and my brother-in-law in the pickup to go out and check out the ice fishing hole. As soon as I heard the first pop, I was in a whole different atmosphere than everyone else. I may have been the first woman on the moon that day ... but I digress. So as we are sitting there looking at the ice fishing hole and listening to the ice pop, and listening to me whimper, my dad finally had enough. Everybody get back in the truck we'll head back. I felt my chances were better on my own walking back to shore, plus somebody had to survive to raise the kids. Well, the husband got out to walk with me. Then Denny felt his chances of survival were higher with walking than riding in a truck with the ice popping all around.

Dad made it back to shore. He thought he was pretty smart. I wonder if he ever got anyone to go ice fishing with him after that?