You can hear the most random stuff in a fly shop.
Monday afternoon I was talking to a friend about the recent showing of the Fly Fishing Film Tour. We were discussing how the first half of the film seemed a little preachy, and how in years past the F3T was more about fish porn and fishing action than conservation issues. During the course of our conversation, a customer wandered in. He poked around a bit and since Ethan was there to help him I didn’t pay him much notice since I was in the middle of a conversation. As our talk continued, Dan and I were interrupted by this guy saying, “It didn’t rain in San Francisco in all of January.”
He said this about three times on his way to the front of the store, each time in a more and more huffy tone. Dan tried to ask him what his point was, and he yelled back into the shop as he stormed out, “Maybe we need more preaching!”. The three of us were left dumbfounded.
First off, this guy had taken our conversation completely out of context. Never once did any of us say that conservation wasn’t a very important issue that needs to be worked on, addressed and talked about. We simply stated that the film tour should be more about fishing movies. Also, this guy was decked out in thousands of dollars of brand new, name brand ski gear with a lift ticket hanging off his jacket. If I hadn’t been so blown away by his comments, I would have asked him if him buying all that stuff and flying here from California and staying in a resort was really all that eco-friendly….
We haven’t had “one of those guys” through the shop in a while, so it was kind of funny in the long run. And now we have a new saying around the shop: It didn’t rain in San Francisco in January…
