OOooooh, John,

I have a question. I was a bad boy one night while fishing from the kayak. I managed to break the end off my sweetheart real nice fishing rod. Can it be repaired? Apparently she spend good $$$ CAD on it and has had it since she was a teenager so there is a lot of affection for this rod. She caught her first salmon with it: a prize fish at that. She was pissed when she heard my excuses for breaking it (ineffectual excuses but it really wasn't my fault: the tip got caught in weeds and was driven into mud when it snapped off). Can you help me, Abby...er, I mean, John?

Robert (still i)N(the doghouse) Pruden