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4EThe Daily Tar HeelMonday, August 23, 1982 Grandpa MmmeF f iskiia trips rememberec 1L By AL STEELE The warm days of August remind me of days spent fishing with my grand father. The long drive, the heat and the fishing itself were time well spent. We always got an early start, leaving the house with a cup of worms and a pic nic lunch which Grandma had prepared before dawn. She waved goodbye to us knowing that we would return in six hours, hungry and smelling of fish. The ride to Grandaddy's favorite fish ing place was a long one even though Grandaddy drove 75 mph. I feared for my life. When we finally arrived at a friend's farm, we would plop down in lawn chairs conveniently placed in the shade. The conversation ranged from corn crops to where the bream were biting best. After a half hour of rambling, we went fishing. Grandaddy's favorite fishing holes consisted of ponds located on farms in northwestern South Carolina. The ponds were used to water cattle and were stocked with some of the finest bream in the South. The drive was the most interesting part of the trip. Grandaddy owned a 1969 Pontiac Catalina which he thought could go anywhere a Jeep CJ-5 could go. Fence posts, ditches and cows were no obstacles for that car. As we skidded to a halt, Grandaddy always reminded me to set up his umbrella and chair before going off on my own. ii The fish never cooperated with me. For some odd reason, the worms kept crawl ing off my hook. Sure, I could hook a fish but landing one was a different story. My antics often brought Grandaddy's laughter rolling across the pond. I stumbled around the pond's edge occasionally falling in trying to find that certain spot where I could catch a fish to top any of Qrandaddy's. One year Grandaddy reeled in a record sized bream. However, before it could be certified, he gave it to a poor family along with the rest of his catch. If Grandaddy's line got snagged, I was the one who waded out and freed it. That practice ended the time one snag turned out to be a large snapping turtle, who didn't like being disturbed. I never learned Grandaddy's secret for pulling in the big ones. Maybe 1 never sat still long enough to learn. It didn't really matter, because as we bounced out of the field he'd always say, "They weren't bit ing much today, but we'll get 'em next time." Several years ago Grandaddy died and the fishing trips ended. After the funeral, one of his friends came up to me. "You not only lost your grandfather, but your best fishing buddy as well," he said. Now I drive a 1969 Pontiac Catalina and everytime I hit a bump or drive by a rural pond I think of my Grandaddy and those warm August days spent fishing. Al Steele, a junior journalism major from Delray Beach, Fla., is photography editor for The Daily Tar Heel. WEE I -YOUR A RW1Y RECRUITERS i ,, ti T r7 - SFC Joseph Rodriquez 335 W. 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Drinking a diet soft drink is in itself a commen dable act I should have to exercise too? My exercise-oriented friends inform me that I should be at my physical peak at 21. 1 am, I quickly assure them. Do I not recover from a bout with a keg or a liqour bottle amazingly well? Do I not bounce back from the ropes of a decadent Friday night with agility and grace, light on my feet Saturday morning? Not good enough, they say. Exercise keeps the mind and body pure. OK. To please those unrelenting fana tics, I visited an aerobics class this sum mer. You've seen the ads all these Cheryl Tiegs clones leaping about like gazelles and having a good old time. "Y'all come on in!" the head clone says with flashing teeth and flat tummy. Tempting. Since I can pogo with the best of them, I naturally assumed ttfat mass dancing for an hour would be fun. Exhilarating. No sweat. Wrong. First of all, nobody told me about the dress code an aerobics class demands. I entered this haven of health and fitness with gym shorts (not Calvin Kleins, but 1 the standard- kind -with the name of my : old high school peeling-off the leg) and an ' old Rolling Stones T-shirt. What a faux . pas. The woman next to me, the one with the long blond Shirley Temple curls and the flawless makeup mask, was garbed in a lavender leotard and tights one shade lighter lavender, with an adorable pink and lavender sweatband and little purple shoes. My other classmates were similarly attired in the other colors of the rainbow. With a medley of raucous music rang ing from "Fame" and Donna Summer to the Stones and J. Geils, we began to exer- moving! cise. Fifty leg lifts, then 30 with the arm bent, then 30 more with the arm extend ed, then 30 slow and 30 fast. And that's just one leg. They should call this Leg Lifts Unlimited instead of Aerobics Unlimited, I muttered to myself as I at tempted (in vain) to throw my flabby leg into the air one last time. Don't stop completely, never stop the instructor yells brightly. "If your leg feels like it's going to fall off, just do little leg lifts instead of big ones." I don't know about anyone else, but if my leg says stop, I obligingly stop. As we complete 50 "doggies" (an exer cise too painful to describe but let "horri ble" suffice), I sneak glances into the mir ror that covers the entire wall across from us (full-length mirrors are despicable in ventions) to see how the others are faring. Not only am I the only one sweating, I'm the only one who isn't smiling. After 30 minutes of wrenching unused limbs into kinky positions, the never tiring, ever-smiling instructor (she must be a former cheerleader) tells us it's time for aerobics. You mean there's more? That past half-hour of grueling muscle strains were mere warm-ups? I'm too young to have a heart attack, I moan to myself as the GoGos begin screeching out of the tape player. Not to bore you with my grunts and groans, I somehow managed to survive the next 30 minutes of leaping around (non-gazelle-like, to say the least), although the barked commands of Jog! Pogo! Twist from side to side! Jog! are forever imprinted into my brain. I never realized that dancing except for slam dancing, that punk entertain ment where people play human bumper cars to music could be so painful. I was drenched in sweat, my legs ached, my face throbbed tomato-red and my knees were shaking like Jell-O. What could be worse? I signed up for a month. Rachel Perry, a senior journalism and political science major from Fayetteville, is University editor for The Daily Tar Heel. Hello Folks. Here is to the finest year that any ACC school has ever had in sports during the entire history of the ACC Tis sho nuff the truth! Carolina is so much more than that also the debating team etc.. etc. Presenting ... sporttacks airtta Presenting a new item in costume iewelrv. Collartacks1 Patented post. 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