Daily story, July 13, 2025

When they finally agreed to take me fishing, the only thing they would tell me was “you can’t mackerel radio”. Every question I asked, they said “All you have to remember is: you can’t mackerel radio.” Any time there had been silence for a few minutes, one of them said, “Just keep in mind, you can’t mackerel radio.” We didn’t catch anything, and we didn’t mackerel radio. Ten years later, the one who was still alive was amazed to hear I didn’t know how to fish. “But didn’t I teach you?” he asked. No, I said. You never even explained the joke.