"DEE DEES TEE GROS BATOU"

HI GANG,

I didn’t realize that “Dee Dees Tee Gros Batou” would stir up so many comments. So I figured it deserved another blog. This blog is for two purposes: One: For a picture of “The Batou.” Every one start looking in all of your old pictures to see if ya'll may have one. I’ll do the same. However, I think that the picture I took and mounted on that piece of wood that I varnished and gave to Daddy is the only one that ever existed. But we may find it like in the back ground of another picture that was taken around the same time. I’ll be looking and I hope ya’ll will too. Another, however, is that I think the picture was offered to me and I turned it down saying it was for Daddy. It could have been thrown away because I didn’t want it at the time. Two: For more stories and adventures of “Dee Dees Tee Gros Batou.” I’ll start it off.

Let me start by saying that I believe that this “Batou” was the one that Daddy kept the longest. I know it’s the one that I had more fishing and shrimping trips in then any other. So here’s the first story which I know ALL of you either remember or heard about. And that’s the story he always blamed on Momma. It’s the story when Momma wanted to go fishing with him and he took her. Not that he agreed to but he had to or play H _ _ L for a long time when he got back. Get the picture ??? (LOL) Daddy backed up the “Batou” into the water and told Momma to keep her foot on the brake. YEA RIGHT, like she knew what a brake pedal was. I gave Momma her first driving lesson and believe me she had no idea what the difference was between the brake or the accelerator pedal. So before he could get back to the car after launching the “Batou” the car had backed up into the water and disappeared underwater. Ha Ha Ha Ha. But that wasn’t the funniest part. The “Batou” was just floating there still attached to the trailer but you could not see the trailer or the car. One of his fishing buddies came by who was returning from fishing and saw the “Batou” just floating there away from the bank and he asked Daddy, “Mai’ Frrrddie you need some hlp ??? You want me to bring yo both back to shore ?” Daddy responded by saying, “Mai’ non that’s alright I gottit ancored down REAL good.” Ha Ha Ha Ha, LOL,LOL,LOL,LOL. And he told me this without as much as cracking a smile, which made it that much funnier. GOD, I laughed rolling on the ground till I cried and cried with laughter. Daddy was really one
H _ _ L of a funny man. I’m crying right now just trying to blob this. I’m getting my key board all wet.

Hope ya’ll like this one.
Later, I have to go finish laughing. (LOL,LOL,LOL)

Peter