You know what you want, you ask for what you want, and there's always got to be some one that knows soooo much better what you want, and will tell you so! And indicate, in the process, that you're a total idiot for not thinking of or wanting what they have.
By the way, for your girlfriend (after all she's only a girl!!), I have a really nice spinning rod and reel you may like....
AAARRRRAAAGGGHHHHH!!
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Trouts don't live in ugly places
Trouts don't live in ugly places.
A friend is not who knows you the longest, but the one who came and never left your side.
Don't look back, we ain't goin' that way.