Bubba and Clem Gets a Ready for DEMA and Walker's Cay
Bubba and Clem are getting ready to go to the
DEMA show, They ain't never been to one before and have been telled that theys will be like chillens at Christmas seeing all them dive toys under one roof.
This DEMA show thing is gonna be in NewAwlens and Clem ain't never been there, Bubba has been a couple times. Clem can't wait to eat him up some of that there Cajun cooked stuff. He hearded tell that these folks even eat crawdads! Bubba tells him that they gonna eat all kinda strange stuff on this trip.
Theys booked em a room at the Holiday Inn in the French Quarter and called up Delta to get airplane tickets, roundtrip Atlanta - NewAwlens is only $175.00 each.
That DEMA stuff all taked care of they can start planning a dive trip over to
Walkers Cay in the Beehamas. That web place woman, Bunch of Fins, knows the folks what run the place over there and she says that theys reel good people. That feller down in Sorysota, FL, did one of them IDC classes over there and he loved the folks and said that that shark dive would be neat and Bubba wouldn't have to be afraid. That feller from PADI, Mal Fousek, the IE man, dived with them sharks when the feller from Sorysota, FL, did that IDC over there. He was reel scared but wouldn't admit it being a retired Air Force fighter pilot.
Clem rings up the Walker's place and arranges to tale 12 peoples over there, they even got it where they can fly by private charter right out of Atlanta airport. Now all theys got to do is sell the trip. It's only $1450 including rooms, feed, and divn and the plane ride. Clem calls up that DJ feller that theys taught to dive and telles him theys want to advertise on hissen show. Clem tells him that he can go free if they sell out.
That DJ feller, the most popular feller in radio in town really sets to hustling the dive trip, he calls it a dive adventure. And low and behold the trip is selled out in less than two weeks. So Mr DJ man is gonna go for free and he is even gonna call back to Atlanta and do a live spot or three from three Beehamas. They gonna sell out the next trip whilst theys over there in the sun havin fun.
They gonna have a meeting of the folk what going on the Walker's Cay trip at Bubba and Clem's Dive Emporium and Gas Station a week before the trip to tell all the information, feed em and to try to sell the folks some new toys.
Bubba and Clem ain't never done had a pre trip meet before so theys gonna go all out and have the food catered by the
Varsity. Theys cut em a deal with the Varsity man and get all ya can eat special what includes chili dogs, hamburgers, fried taters and fried rings of onions plus all the fixings and soda pop fer only $10 a head. Bubba is so excited that he be besides hisself.
He can eat 23 of them chili dogs hissesf, he figgers that theys will break even on this here party since them gals can eat only one dog.
Theys got 12 folks paying and that there DJ and Bubba and Clem going on the trip. Theys got two airplanes for that group. Bubba wants to smuggle back a cat from over there like that feller from Sorysota, FL did, he even named the cat Walker. It is one of them yeller cats.
They got 6 new divers, three couples, a doctor and his wife, a lawyer and his girlfriend and a couple of college girls from the Georgia University up in Athens town. The other 6 is reel good divers, another doctor and his wife, two regular working ladies and a father and son. These folks have been everywhere diving.
Time comes for the party and the Varsity folks show up in a truk and then all the divers arrive. Bubba has got the Jimmy Buffett feller sanging about a cheeseburger ( Bubba likes cheeseburgers and eats them everywhere that web place - www.fdu.com/cburger.htm - tell him too ) on the stereo system in Bubba and Clem's Dive Emporium and Gas Station.
The folks sit around in the lounge room at Bubba and Clem's Dive Emporium and Gas Station and eat hot dogs and hamburgers. One of the doctor's wife is a rather large girl and eats her weight in chili dogs with onions, she even eats more than Bubba. After the feeding, and Rudy done got his share of handouts, they sit down and talk about the trip. Clem snuck a half dozen hamburgers for the guard gator when the Varsity men wern't looking.
Clem opens the floor for questions. Some axe about the food and some the rooms but everyone's a wanting to know about the Shark Rodeo. At first Bubba done thought that he had to ride one of them man-eaters. They gots a video of that dive from that Bunch of Fins woman and it eases everyone's worries about Jaws.
The meet brakes up and folks start to buying things for the trip. The doctor's rather large wife is seen sneaking 11 chili dogs in her pocket book. Bubba and Clem sell 4 new BCs, 6 new regulators and one of them is titanium Ruby one from Mares, 8 new computers, and they sell 10 new bags with wheels on em and all kinda little stuff. The cash computer says $6737.12 for the night. Not to shabby for a bunch of high tech red necks. . Everybody goes home reel happy and can't wait for the Walker's Cay flight.
Bubba is wondering ifen he needs a cell phone or hissen sat phone and them rocket flares that he sealed up in his Plexiglas case. One of them self-proclaimed gurus and his echo boy on AOL keeps on a talking about taking a cell phone on dives. Bubba is beginning to figger that this guru feller talks more than he dives anyway. It don't matter noway causen Bubba is more scared of them sharks than of getting lost.
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