I worked at Lake Don Pedro during high school. On busy weekends like July 4th, we would help people launch their boats to keep things moving. It's well over 100 degrees out. This old man rolls in with a heap of a boat, can barely back the trailer up and takes the prime spot right at the dock. We help him get the boat launched and tie it to the dock while he moves the truck. Then we notice the boat is taking on water... fast. We pull it up as far as we can to keep it from totally sinking while trying to find the guy and tell him to bring his truck back. He drives back down but can't line the trailer up. He gets out of the truck to worry about his stuff in the boat and we realize he's drinking booze out of his coffee mug. As we're moving his truck and bailing out the boat, he tells us how he won the boat in a poker game and was going out on the lake for the weekend. Looking around in the boat, we find a styrofoam to-go box with a sandwich in it and 5 or 6 big jug sized bottles of booze. He's lucky that boat sank there or he probably wouldn't have survived the weekend...
The Charles River, which leads into the Boston Harbor has a public boat launch where lots of people put their boats in and then can just park their car and trailer for the day. When I was younger, this guy and his friend pull up in a Corvette pulling a 23 foot Formula behind it.
He cuts in front of 4 other people waiting to launch their boats, backs down the ramp, and gets out of the car. He lets the boat into the water, unhooks the cable from the trailer, and a stream of water starts spraying up from the back of the boat. I yell to him that I think he forgot to put the plug in the back of the boat. His friend jumps in the boat and starts bailing as the water is coming in. The people he cut in line start yelling to the guy to just put the plug back in.
The other guy (who I assume owned the boat) jumps into the Vette and pulls the trailer out of the water quickly and then turns right to get out of the way of the ramp. He throws open the driver door not noticing that someone was coming by him and the car rips the driver door off the Vette.
We're watching all of this from our boat already in the river and decide that it's probably a good time to get going. I think we probably ended up having more fun than that !
I worked at Lake Don Pedro during high school. On busy weekends like July 4th, we would help people launch their boats to keep things moving. It's well over 100 degrees out. This old man rolls in with a heap of a boat, can barely back the trailer up and takes the prime spot right at the dock. We help him get the boat launched and tie it to the dock while he moves the truck. Then we notice the boat is taking on water... fast. We pull it up as far as we can to keep it from totally sinking while trying to find the guy and tell him to bring his truck back. He drives back down but can't line the trailer up. He gets out of the truck to worry about his stuff in the boat and we realize he's drinking booze out of his coffee mug. As we're moving his truck and bailing out the boat, he tells us how he won the boat in a poker game and was going out on the lake for the weekend. Looking around in the boat, we find a styrofoam to-go box with a sandwich in it and 5 or 6 big jug sized bottles of booze. He's lucky that boat sank there or he probably wouldn't have survived the weekend...
Yikes!!! I hate to say it but I've seen stuff like that all too often. My personal favorite is the people who forget to put in the drain plug. Hmmm why are my shoes wet???
Well if it is a hurricane you are in trouble here. You have way to much of one and not enough of another. I mean seriously do you really need that much mix?
Well if it is a hurricane you are in trouble here. You have way to much of one and not enough of another. I mean seriously do you really need that much mix?
It's a 1.75l bottle + I still have half of another bottle in the freezer. I'm like the coast guard, Semper Paratus (always ready)
What a great freakin' movie! I'm nuking a bag of popcorn, grabbing a few Sam Adams, and breaking out the Animal House DVD. See ya in 109 minutes. Until then, enjoy this:
[YT]http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=0Dy2fo6E_pI[/YT]
Yikes!!! I hate to say it but I've seen stuff like that all too often. My personal favorite is the people who forget to put in the drain plug. Hmmm why are my shoes wet???
We went boat-camping one weekend and it started taking on water when we launched it. Trailered it and put in the spare plug. Had to hang all the sleeping bags up to dry, etc.. My dad was yelling at all of us because he was always very careful about putting the plug in after getting home and letting it drain the whole way. We got home after the trip and the dog was sitting in the front yard, chewing on the old plug...