Stop in for a cup of coffee

My buddy in ND tried to get me on the ice for fishing. I explained I was from the South and we were born with our parents beating us if we ever got out on the ice! I told him I would go, but he better have a long rope as I was tying it to a tree, and I was wearing a life jacket full time and no way on gods green earth was he getting me in a vehicle on the ice. He never asked again!