John Y:
In our camp, our stove has a water jacket connected to an old hot water tank, so we have plenty of hot water as long as the guys remember to keep filling the tank.
When they first brought a shower into camp, it was mounted against a balsam tree a little way from camp. The guys mix hot and cold water together for warm showers.
Butch and Russ were partnered paramedics, and were always trying to "one-up" each other in the practical joke department.
That first year of the shower, we had a lot of snow in second week, so one windy night when Russ was in the shower, Butch took the broom outside and whacked one of the branches of the balsam sending a shower of snow down on Russ. Butch came back inside and told us all about it. When Russ came in he didn't say a word for a while which led us all to wonder. Later over a beer, Russ said how hard the wind was blowing, and that one big gust of wind send a ton of snow down on him. We all broke up, but Russ thought it was because of his story and not because of what really happened.
No one said anything for the rest of the hunt, but on the way back to Windsor the guys he drove with finally broke down and let him in on it.
The next fall, we had started to build a shower room next to the back door, but the hunt started before we got a roof on it. We didn't have any snow that year, but wanting to get even, Russ left a short ladder against the outside of the shower, and filled a bucket with cold creek water. When Butch was in the shower, he went outside, climbed the ladder and dumped the cold water on Butch. He came back into the cabin laughing and telling us in detail about what happened.
Just then, the door burst open, and there stood Butch - buck naked - with water and soap dripping from him. He began to walk toward Russ with a big sly smile on his face, and we were wondering what he had planned. When he reached Russ' bunk, he climbed the ladder, and dried himself off in Russ' sleeping bag. Russ had a wet sleeping bag for the rest of the week.
Score: Two for Butch. :twisted: