Bait Monkey stole my $$$

[Bubba_Bruiser]

Well, me and the wife have been shut in for a while now and she made the suggestion to get out today before I go back to work Wednesday. And with my Momma passing earlier in the week, I just wanted to get my mind out of a rut. We were going to take the boys to see Monsters vs. Aliens 3D (Which happens to be a pretty good effects movie, at least to me it was). She wanted to go to a children's store to look for clothes before we went to the movie, so I suggested she go and to drop me, "Freddy", & "Mr. Tootles" (my boys) off at Gander Mountain. We looked at all the trophies on the wall. Freddy is always intrigued by the 8' gar, but I told him he needed to focus on the 10#+ big mouths next to it. Mr. Tootles was pissed because I put him in the buggy, but his mood changed when I put the sale paper in there with him and told him to find us some stiff. We looked at the deer and other game and finally made it to the fishing isle. I ended up with 4 Spro Frogs (2 poppers, 1 regular, & 1 Jr), 2 Zorro rattlin' spinners with colorado blades, and a Flambeau storage box (I have been really impressed with these boxes for 3.99) . I think it tallied around $50. Well we went to the movie and Flea, my wife, wanted to go to Old Navy and some other odds and ends. I told her to drop us back off at GM, but the boys wanted to go with her. This is where the damage happened. I searched for a spinning rod high and low and finally settled on a GM 6'6" on sale. I picked up a spool of Suffix braid 30lb and vanish 10lb, another Spro frog, 5 packs of horny toads, Owner 3/0 & 5/0 frog hooks, 4 Mann's mini ghost ($1 a piece), some peg its and bobber stoppers, VanDam's line conditioner, a bad of Culprit 7.5 junebug worms, and a couple of Zoom lizards. Final damage, 196 and some change. So much for tucking away a few bennies in the wallet. And we topped off the day by stopping at Books-a-Million and I bought Mike Ike's book, and I am about halfway finished with it. But we had a great day. Just hate I gave in.