Can we stoop to CLAM DIGGING? A friend of mine from high school came back into town on-leave from the Air Force. He brought a friend from Oklahoma with him. It was winter, and we decided to go clam digging on a 11:00 pm tide. The new guy was excited to go. That evening, be showed up dressed appropriately, with pack boots on. I said, "Hey, as the new guy, you have to be the "runner". When you dig up a clam, sometimes they scamper across the beach trying to get away, so as the runner, you need tennis shoes to catch them. Those pack boots won't work too well."
So, he changed into his sneakers.
At about midnight, as he stood in soaked tennis shoes, he caught on that there was no such thing as a "runner" or scampering clams. Good thing we were near the house so he didn't freeze too badly.