How to Properly "Buy" a Fishing License.

Sometimes you try your best to be an honest and kind person, despite situations you can't control. My father proved to me he's a great man, and the reward is saving a little money and having a new story to tell.

It was Saturday and the spring was just about to begin, and since I turned sixteen the fall before, I needed a fishing license. My first one, actually. We had to get some shoes for me as well, and the shoe store was in the same area and just a couple feet away from where we bought our licenses. We went and looked at shoes and decided we could come back to buy them, since I didn't know what pair I wanted. We were buying the licenses at Dick's Sporting Goods. First we picked up some baits we would need and proceeded to check-out. We payed for the baits and told the cashier we would need fishing license. 

This is the part where things get interesting. She printed off my dads license and the power shuts off. After a minute we left to go buy my shoes and opted to come back and see if the lights were back on. While walking to the next store we realized my dad never paid for his license! No big deal, we could go back and get my license and pay for both of them. And that's what we did. The cashier printed off mine and went to the register to ring up me and my dad. 

As luck would have it, the register wouldn't pull up the licenses since you had to type it in and all that. Eventually a manager tried, failed, and told us we could leave. He said we had been there long enough. Me and my dad were excited, and left the store as champions. 

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Happy Fishing (unless you had to Winterize your boat already)

-Asher