Any retail store has a lot of light bulbs. Better light, better presentation, better shopping experience. At the shop I work at we have always written the date we put a lightbulb into a fixture. That way we can keep track of how long it lasts before burning out. Somewhere along the line some worker back in the day started writing funny sayings on the bulbs along with a date. We’ve found all kinds of stuff written on old bulbs and they always manage to bring a smile.
Last summer there was a gentleman working at the shop who really didn’t like people from Texas too much. He had some very valid reasons (as most of us out West do), and as we became better and better friends it was always kind of fun to talk about. Both of us know some really great people and do have some good friends from the Lone Star State, so we weren’t hating on all of them as a whole. Anyway… Last week I was changing bulbs and found this one:
In case you can’t quite read it, it says, “Save a trout, smoke a Texan”.
Oh, the sh*t you find in a fly shop….
