Snow Melt

Channel Surfing, Web Surfing, and Water Surfing

The July 20, 2013 prompt for "Blogging Circle of Friends Prompt Forum"  is
Have you ever been surfing? Describe the experience.

Searching for the remote control
brings back memories of my childhood
when channel surfing was difficulty
or impossible.

Back then
there was no remote control
to change television stations
during the commercial break.

Back then
I had to get up off the couch,
walk to the television,
and manually switch from one channel
to another;
it was too much trouble
to channel surf during the commercials.

Now
I channel surf
(at least when I can find the remote control)
and web surf
without difficulty.

The only experience I have had with surfing in the water way being pulled behind a motor boat on a flat board that was called (at the time) a surf board. It was not a real surf board like those used in the ocean because it was pulled behind a boat and I held onto a handle attached to a rope that was attached to the boat. It was fun until I fell off and found my arm tangled in the rope. Oh well, so much for my surfing experience; at least I did not drown or fall into a nest of cottonmouth water moccasins.1 I think the stories about people falling off skis or surf boards into nest of water moccasins was an urban legend.

Thought of the Day: "I love the idea of something beautiful happening, and then it being abrasively cut into. Because in a way it's similar to switching channels or surfing the web; I like people getting lulled into something and then taking them somewhere else." - Reggie Watts

Footnotes
1  http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Agkistrodon_piscivorus