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Brad Byington: A bedtime bear story The night the channel freighter innocently put the frighteners on the writer - a memory his travel mate still thinks is funny By Brad Byington I enjoyed the story very much. If I could, it reminds me a something that happened also about the same time. Sandy was a neighbor I grew up with. He and I were in the same class. Even after we were older we sometimes did things together. His father-in-law bought a farm on Sugar Island, which is in the channel between Sault Ste Marie, MI and Canada. The island is 7 mi wide and 21 mi long. It had been quite warm and we decided to head up "Narth" to where we hoped it was cooler. To get on the island there is a ferry which only runs a few times a day and shuts down, I believe, about 10pm. We drove up, but got on the Island after everyone was asleep. So we went back to try to catch the last ferry. Nope, done already. On the way back to the ferry, my buddy Sandy had to show me the community garbage station. It was trash dumpsters in a small lot. All the garbage was taken to the dumpsters to keep the bears from being so close to the houses. I had seen pictures of the bear picnics. Anyway, we went back down to the ferry dock and crawled into the back of his pickup with a cap and a mattress. We had been asleep maybe an hour, and my sleeping mind was on the bears, when an iron ore freighter came through the channel. They were required to blow their horn coming throught the channel, but at night they just barely pulled on it so it sounded like a "bear"!!!!! I shot straight up, hit my head on the cap and screamed!. When Sandy got woke up, he asked what was going on, I told him, he still thinks its funny. Me, maybe a little. - Brad Byington This story was posted on 2014-04-28 16:28:48
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