COYOTES!!!
I have a duck blind on the bank of the Chenango River. David would go with me to take pictures of the wildlife... Especially ducks!!! Wood ducks were our favorite.
On one day it got dark. David and I heard a pack of coyotes howling in the distance. About a half hour later we heard them again. This time they were only a few hundred yards from our location.
I could see that David was getting nervous so I did what any friend would do. I told him I hadn't brought a flashlight! I preceded to explain that we probably would be safer staying put.
I told him that I wasn't worried as much about the coyotes but more about surprising a racoon... etc.
He reluctantly agreed to stay overnight at the duck blind together rather than risk navigating through the woods at night with no flashlight.
When we arrived back home we had been there for a total of seventeen hours...
I don't remember when I confessed to him that I was playing it up just to spend that time with him...
We were SO TIRED!!!
IT WAS A GREAT NIGHT!!!