BobinSouthVA
Bronze Member
Hey I just had my "good deed" moment today at lunch. Here is the story, sorry no pics.
Sometimes at lunch I'll go fish a pier close to my work. I don't take any live bait but use some Gulp jigs and just jig for flounder. Yesterday I caught a nice sea trout, but the little taylor blues kept biting my jig tails off. Went back today for some more bluefish punishment, and after sacrificing my second jig to the little B@#%@S I looked up and noticed some guy with a really old looking whites machine on the beach near a bench.
Soon after I saw him I saw two women poking around the sand in various spots. the way this was going on and the way the guy was swinging the machine told me they had lost something. So over I went to find out the fellow had lost his keys the night before. He said they had a 5 inch wrench on them. Looking at the sand that had been dragged that morning it seemed like a slim chance he would find them, especially with the lack of knowledge on how to use the machine.
I told them I had my machine in the car and could help them look, although the chances were good the beach cleaning machine either moved them or picked them up. Sure enough a short search over the area produced a pull tab, nickle, various foil. We were giving up and I told them to give me their number so if I found them at some other point I could get them back to them. As we were walking back to the car to get a pen and paper, (how may times have we heard that before
) I got another signal that turned out to be the keys. It looks like either he lost them going back to the car or the beach cleaner moved them around a bit. They were only just under the surface. I'm starting to believe any time I need to find something good I need to go straight to the middle of an area, and proclaim, ok time to head back to the truck and get out of here. 
Anyway, turned out to be a much sweatier/sandier/hotter lunch than I had anticipated but it was great to see the smile on their faces as they drove away.
Thanks for enjoying my feel good story for the day.
HH
Sometimes at lunch I'll go fish a pier close to my work. I don't take any live bait but use some Gulp jigs and just jig for flounder. Yesterday I caught a nice sea trout, but the little taylor blues kept biting my jig tails off. Went back today for some more bluefish punishment, and after sacrificing my second jig to the little B@#%@S I looked up and noticed some guy with a really old looking whites machine on the beach near a bench.
Soon after I saw him I saw two women poking around the sand in various spots. the way this was going on and the way the guy was swinging the machine told me they had lost something. So over I went to find out the fellow had lost his keys the night before. He said they had a 5 inch wrench on them. Looking at the sand that had been dragged that morning it seemed like a slim chance he would find them, especially with the lack of knowledge on how to use the machine.
I told them I had my machine in the car and could help them look, although the chances were good the beach cleaning machine either moved them or picked them up. Sure enough a short search over the area produced a pull tab, nickle, various foil. We were giving up and I told them to give me their number so if I found them at some other point I could get them back to them. As we were walking back to the car to get a pen and paper, (how may times have we heard that before
) I got another signal that turned out to be the keys. It looks like either he lost them going back to the car or the beach cleaner moved them around a bit. They were only just under the surface. I'm starting to believe any time I need to find something good I need to go straight to the middle of an area, and proclaim, ok time to head back to the truck and get out of here. Anyway, turned out to be a much sweatier/sandier/hotter lunch than I had anticipated but it was great to see the smile on their faces as they drove away.
Thanks for enjoying my feel good story for the day.
HH
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