The FIN is on the other foot… Now!

Well it’s been a while since I wrote my last story, but this week is all about turnabout being fair play.

Every week we divers head out to our favorite spots to dive. Once there, our shore support team kicks into high gear and gets us down below so gracefully, we never really appreciate what they go through to make our day so great. Well this week, I learned a valuable lesson.

You can tell school is back in session, you can tell this by the amount of rampant infectious disease floating through the air. By this I mean simply you cannot make it one month with a family of 4 children, 3 in 3 different grades,and two different schools, from bring home a cold or flu. I mean come on, is this really necessary? Many people simply refuse to keep their sick kids home. Why, I don’t know, nor do I care about their parenting “issues”. What I do care about is the fact that their kid infected my kid, and my kid infected me, and if I am infected with a cold or flu, I can’t dive. Plain and simple you just cannot equalize with a stuffy head or any form of congestion.

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