(Retelling a story from Daddy’s childhood)

I just found a tub and it floats. I think we could turn it into a boat. Let’s make a good strong paddle that will turn.

“How will it turn?” said Ryan.
“We will turn it,” I said.
“How?”
“With bicycles. Let’s bring it to the pond.”

So we built a boat with the tub in the front and a barrel in the back and wooden propellers attached to the barrel. We attached bicycles on each side of the tub so when you pedalled it turned the propellers. It worked like a paddle boat.

We pulled the boat into the pond and started pedalling. I looked down and one of my chain links had fallen off my bike’s pedal chain and into the water! So I dove in after it which made the boat unbalanced which dumped Ryan into the water.

I never found that chain link, and we never used that boat again.