Hot Sauce in the Eye

Hot Sauce in the Eye

David Sparks Ph.D.
David Sparks Ph.D.
Friend James Roberts is fishing a terrific late salmon run on the south fork of the Salmon River toward the end of June. He gets in early morning and is just killing it. So think about this for a minute. You get out on the river at the break of dawn, your casting nonstop and fighting some great fish for four or five hours. What is a natural thing to happen? Can you imagine getting hungry for lunch? That is exactly what happened to James as I asked him to recount is story of what would certainly be to me, a major disaster. "You had come of a humorous but not so humorous story about the equivalent of Tabasco sauce in your eye? The sriracha hot sauce? The South Fork of the Salmon River, that late salmon run late June early July, had a phenomenal day fishing in the morning. I was hungry so I went up to the truck and pulled out some chips and clam dip and I thought, oh this hot sauce sounds so good to put on these chips so I sat in my truck and that bottle had swollen up so much from the elevation and I did not realize it and I popped the top and it shot hot sauce directly into my eyes. I stumbled my way back down to the river where everyone was fishing and I just think my head into the water and blinked my eyes. I have never felt pain like that in my life. (Laughter)”
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