GeoDudeFlorida
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No joke!What about the kerosene lantern to get to the outhouse? Glad when we got a flashlight.
My mom’s brother taught me how to reload - and how to hunt. We were out - he and I and two of his boys, the middle two - down near the Lake Okeechobee, hunting and maybe we all lost track of time… fortunately my uncle had a very powerful flashlight. Unfortunately, a game warden saw the beam. When he asked my uncle why he had a flashlight if we were out hunting legally, he said, “So the boys can find a place to go. Nothing worse than stepping in the last guy’s business on the way to do your own.”
Now, I’m not saying that game warden actually bought that line - or that we were doing something wrong - but I will admit that hadn’t occurred to me (at all of ten years old) until right then.
But I haven’t forgotten about it since.