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14. Procrastination. If you had more time, you’d be able to put it off longer. What do you put off to the last moment? Why? Tell a story about how you just barely got something done in time – or didn’t.
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The one that got away

Submitted by fairfield55 on January 9, 2008 - 12:34.

This is the tale of the one that got away. My favorite place to fish is my grandpa’s dock in Eagle Bay, New York.
Three ago in the summer I was fishing on my grandpa’s dock when I hooked a foot long fish. The fish starts to drag me off the dock and into the lake!
‘‘Dad help!’’ I yelled loudly to my D ad. My dad comes thundering to me. He starts to drag me away from the edge of the dock as I reeled the fish in. I handed the rod to my dad very quickly. He reeled the fish.
‘‘It’s a lake trout!’’ He yelled excitedly to me. I darted to get a 5-gallon bucket. I filled it half way full. My Dad unhooked the fish and dropped the fish in the bucket. I cast again while my Dad went to tell my family about the fish. I hooked nothing. I went to look at the lake trout. It was gone!
‘‘Dad it’s gone!’’ I yelled to him. He thundered to the dock
‘‘ It must have jumped into the lake’’ he said. That’s the story of the one that got away.

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