True Story Tuesday - Back With a Splash

*Yawn*

Hear that?  It’s True Story Tuesday waking up from a summertime siesta!

While I usually look forward to any number of warm-weather adventures, it’s now the start of Mr. Daddy’s favorite time of the year.  Any guesses?

Anyway… to mourn the passing of summer, I leave you with a True Story Tuesday written by (gasp!) my dad.  They had quite an adventure while on their tropical vacation…

 

Clash of the Titans

 

So my folks are on a terrific getaway.  I get all kinds of nyah-nyah text messages like this:

 

To: Rach

From: Mom

From our lanai     Love You guys

 

 

Yeah, thanks Mom.  It’s raining here and you send me that shot of palm trees.  Love you too.

 

Then I get a text message from my Dad that leaves me really and truly freaked out.  Here’s the verbatim recap:

 

To: Rach

From: Dad

Don’t let anyone tell you little octopus aren’t strong.

Was snorkeling & while standing to adjust my mask a small octopus latched onto my foot.

It was only 4 feet of water but I thought I'd drown trying to get it off because when I reached to yank it off, it grabbed hold of my hand. I was now basically bound hand to foot, I couldn’t break its grip.

While thrashing around I had an adrenaline rush and with a desperate yank was able to separate my hand & foot. Making it back to shore in record time, I discovered the octopus still attached to my foot, except two of its arms which were still wrapped around my wrist.

Quite a crowd gathered & luckily a savvy local was among them. He covered the octopus's remaining parts with sand & within 2 minutes the thing detached. He said the marks  will fade in bout a month. I guess these incidents are becoming more common.     ALOHA

 

I may or may not have hit reply and sent some sort of frantic OhmygoshIamtotallyfreakingout message.  And possibly a Youarenevergettingmetogosnorkelingwithyouagain response.

Oh, and, “Are you okay?”

 

I may have told a half million people that my Popeye dad had just ripped the arms off an octopus as he battled for his life against the crustacean behemoth.

I love my Dad.  But y’all remember his letter to me at camp, right?  *Arghhh*

Yes, what followed next:

To: Rach

From: Dad 

RE:OCTOPUS

I found some cheap property here. Any of you interested in some Swamp land? LOL     SORRY, I couldn’t resist.

 

 

I’ll admit – there was a rather rapid shift from panicked concern to I cannot believe you just did that.

Let’s just say that my response may have included the words, “mean, meanie, and so mean”.

 

 

To: Rach

From: Dad

My new shoes have holes in the design & I got sunburned thru them.  Just begged for a story.  FUNNY?     LUV U GUYS!

 

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So… how’s that for a first?  My Dad pranks me with an entire ocean between us.

Any summer goofiness to share?  An awesome prank of your own?  Anything outrageous, amazing, hilarious, miraculous and (mostly) true that has happened to you?

 

 

Well, link up!  Just grab the code under the True Story Tuesday button on the right sidebar, paste it into your TST post, then come back and enter your permalink to the list and enjoy some comment love :)

Can’t wait to catch up with all your stories!