A fish story

I saw this fish for sale at Sprouts the other day,

and it reminded me of a "Gary" story:

Gary told this story “on himself” – we wouldn’t have known about it unless he had shared it.

He was with a group of folks in San Francisco and they all went out to a Chinese restaurant. The restaurant served the food “family style” on a large lazy Susan in the middle of the table. One of the folks had ordered fish, and it came whole – so the fish was laying there on the plate, staring at whomever the lazy Susan had it in front of. One of the ladies, I think it was Stacy, was not very pleased with this, so she would turn the lazy Susan whenever the fish ended up in front of her. Of course, everyone else tried to ensure that the fish would end up in front of her.

At the end of the meal, Gary had the bright idea to continue to make use of the fish – the hotel they were staying in put the newspaper into a plastic bag and hung it on the room door in the morning. He would get up early and put the fish into the newspaper bag and hang it on Stacy’s door. So, he wrapped up the fish in napkins and took it back to the hotel.

When he got back to his room, he was at his bathroom sink unwrapping the fish. After being partially eaten, and then wrapped in napkins, the fish was really not recognizable anymore, and Gary decided that this was not an idea that would make sense to continue. Since he was standing in the bathroom, he tossed the remainder of the fish into the toilet, probably immediately realizing this wasn’t a great thing to do. Regardless, he flushed the toilet. It *kind of* went down. He flushed again. The toilet was stopped….

He wondered if he could make it through the night without making use of the toilet, but decided that was probably not reasonable, so he called the front desk, and they sent a maintenance guy up with a plunger. The maintenance guy gave one “plunge” on the toilet, and to his amazement, a fish popped up into the bowl!

Gary looked at the maintenance guy, with a pasted on look of amazement and said, “Wow, I didn’t know they could swim that far either!”

 Gary recently passed away, and his memorial service is today, Thursday, May 25. We are sorrowful for our loss of his physical presence, but look forward to seeing him again one day in heaven.