[RidgeRunner]

2 pairs of prescription glasses over the years. Lots of catfish grabbers and chum bags, rods and reels, pieces off reels, keeper fish.
Winter time in FL often means layering up.. So you start out in the morning with jeans and a jacket on over your shorts and you peel off when it warms up a bit. Left my wallet in the jeans and the jeans blew out of the boat on the way in.. I was 16 so the most I lost was my drivers license and a few bucks but the wallet was a hand made calfhide one of a kind.
Another good tale of a near miss-
We were in a NO WATER ZONE in Ruskin running inside from Bishops Harbor back to Cockroach. Apparently my tackle box blew off the rear deck of the flats boat. Lucky (or not) we ran one tank out of gas about the same time. I tried to switch fuel lines over before we came off plane but no luck, we had run aground. I got out of the boat and looked back to see this relatively large box floating half submerged on the flat behind us. 100 yards back. WTHeck is that? Oh that is the tackle box, wallet, truck keys, etc. We picked up the pace but going back to where the box sank involved a lot of pulling and pushing the boat that day, the tide was ripping out. Then disabling an aftermarket alarm system on the GMC that could only be disarmed with the now wet keychain fob, convincing the man that yes we are the owners of the truck not trying to steal it.. just because the boat was filthy and we were wet we didn't actually sink the boat or get into an accident, per se..
AND we were sotally tober, HUH?