Gone Fishin' Page #3

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my toast and my bacon.

Yeah, then I'll get the

Fisherman' s Feast, and you can

have my sausage and pancakes.

If you're gonna do that,

why don't I get

the Mariner and you can have

the whole side of ham?

Oh, never mind us.

This happens all the time.

Must be enjoyable for ya.

May I suggest

the Panama Platter?

It really hit the spot.

Oh, yeah? Thanks.

Um... what do you think?

Shall we get a couple of those?

- Yeah, a couple of those.

- [Waitress] Two of those?

- A couple of those, yeah.

- Yeah. Thanks.

- Gus, check this out.

- Yeah.

- Pure Billy "Catch" Pooler.

Watch this.

- Okay.

Back, drop.

- Back, drop.

- Y-you're flickin' too much.

- I can't get the flick.

- Okay, wait. Let me show you.

Which is the flick?

Which is the dip?

Think of flick

instead of flip.

- Flick.

- Flick, dip.

See, I can't...

I get the flick and the dip

mix ed all the time.

- Uh, pardon me.

- Oh, sorry.

- I couldn't help noticing you have a

fishing lure on your key ring.

- Yeah.

- That wouldn't be

a deadly invader, would it?

- It is!

- You fish?

- Not professionally.

You could call me

a frustrated amateur.

you're a frustrated amateur.

[Laughing]

- that's good.

- I was just kiddin'.

Just makin' a joke.

- It was a joke.

- Oh, yeah, yeah.

What about you two?

you're professionals, right?

Well, I guess you could

say that, in a way.

we're semipro.

We won a lot of fishin' medals

and things like that.

- Not lately, though.

- Well, scout camp...

That counts, doesn't it?

Stuff like that.

- The reason I ask is... Sorry. Sorry.

- Oh.

- Do you mind if I join you?

- No, come on.

Thanks.

You see, my father was

a professional fisherman.

- [Joe] Really?

- He was telling me...

that he was working

on the deadly invader.

You know, I think

this might have been one

of his last original designs.

- By the way, I'm Joe.

- Oh, uh, Martin.

- How ya doin'?

- Martin Jeffries.

Gus. Yeah.

- Anyway, are you two married?

- Uh, yeah, yeah.

- Children?

- No, they're our age.

- No, I don't think

that's what he meant.

- Oh, I'm sorry.

- Do you have children?

- Yeah, yeah, yeah.

- They all get together.

- they're great kids, though.

- See, Fiona and I,

we never had children.

- Oh, geez.

When Fiona died,

I suddenly realized...

I' d wasted so much

of my life, you know?

- I' d spent 20 years behind a desk.

- that's a long time to sit.

- you're 100% right.

- Right, Joe?

- I was always jealous of men like you.

- Really?

Of course, I'm changing all that now,

you know. My life' s different.

Listen, I won' t hold you up.

Anyway, look, it was

a real honor meeting you.

- Hey, the pleasure' s ours.

- Yeah, thanks.

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