As quick as a cat

[GatorMike]

Just not quite as agile. I fell off the dock this afternoon and had my pack of cigarettes out of my shirt pocket before I hit the water. Lightning fast. Had been working on the boat and my son came over and asked if I wanted to take it to the river and try it out. I was wearing regular slick shoes not what I usually wear on the boat. I stepped from the boat to the dock and hit a wet spot. Luckly my wallet and cell phone were in the glove box. I couldn't believe I was quick enough to save my smokes before I hit the water.

 

[Mikeyboy]

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Good job on the save. Don't know what they are by you but at over $7 a pack here I think I'd make a valiant effort to save them too.

 

[Bob_VT]

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Sorry but I have to snicker a bit......... recently I fell into a creek WITH my chainsaw in my hand running and I had my wallet and cell phone........... wallet wet, cell phone still works, chainsaw needed emergency treatment but survived...........

Remember the times we have fallen and tumbled yet, never spilled a drop of our drink at parties!

At least we are not hurt.

 

[tmcalavy]

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Yeah, good save. Lucky you went in the water...I quit bouncing in a fall quite a few years ago, nowadays I just go "thump" and I'm way to young to yell..."I've fallen and can't get up"...hard to do that when you're smoking.

 

[tomdinwv]

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This thread would be better with a video of Gator Mike going for a swim.

 

[GatorMike]

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This thread would be better with a video of Gator Mike going for a swim.

LMAO I'm sure it was quite a show of course my son was the only one who got to enjoy it and I guess he was too concerned for my 60 year old butt to laugh. The worst part for me was I had taken the seat covers off my truck seats to wash them and had nothing to lay on the seat for the ride home. My truck has almost white seats and they have always been covered so they are (were) spotless. Oh I wasn't quick enough to get my lighter out of my pocket too so I did have to suffer the ride home without a light.

 

[LippCJ7]

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I remember when I learned to put my thumb over the top of my favorite beer when one of my "friends" would "accidentally" bump me over the edge of the boat or dock whatever, I would proudly present to all that witnessed the "accident" that I had saved the contents of my beverage from involuntary watering down and go to take a swig of my beverage only to get sprayed in the face by the beer grenade I now held in my hands....

 

[sublauxation]

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Nice save! It's amazing how the mind and reflexes work in these situations. I can get a chew can out of my pocket mid-air long before hitting the water. Wet tobacco sucks. The beer can thing, I'll have to work on that one.

 

[coastalrichard]

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Just not quite as agile. I fell off the dock this afternoon and had my pack of cigarettes out of my shirt pocket before I hit the water. Lightning fast. Had been working on the boat and my son came over and asked if I wanted to take it to the river and try it out. I was wearing regular slick shoes not what I usually wear on the boat. I stepped from the boat to the dock and hit a wet spot. Luckly my wallet and cell phone were in the glove box. I couldn't believe I was quick enough to save my smokes before I hit the water.

OK Gator...it's settled...when you're in my boat...you're in charge of the smokes

 

[Bob_VT]

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Without video....... I guess these incidents just are not as funny as they should be We all need to be followed by a film crew since it happens to ALL of us......... people who say they never fall...... their day is coming.

 

[Mikeyboy]

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Exactly bob that's why I try to take small falls regularly so I can avoid the big ones rarely lol.

 

[5150abf]

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I was in a kayak once and flipped it, managed to get my thumb over my beer before any lake water got in, still am waiting to fall off the boat, I have come really really close a few times but so far no luck there.

 

[Mikeyboy]

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Keep trying 5150 and you'll get there. I have faith you can do it lol.

 

[Augoose]

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not exactly on topic, but if you ever hit the drink with your phone in your pocket, immediately turn it off and leave it off. take all the access covers that you can get to off, remove the battery and if its a flip phone, leave it open. Go home and bury the phone in a bowl of uncooked rice for a couple of days. Put it all back together and give it a try. More often than not, if you allow everything to dry via the rice (which will suck out the moisture from the phone) it will likely work!

 

[Mikeyboy]

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Yeah as long as you leave it off till its totally dry inside it usually will work.

 

[Home Cookin']

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you fresh water guys don't know real danger unless you get around salt water with teenagers who inevitably float test their cell phones. All the rice in China won't fix that.

float test: unsat

But speaknig if which--cell phones come with a tell tale in the battery compartment that changes color if it gets wet, so they can tell if it has been overboard. My daughter replaced a phone, so they sent her a refurb, which didn't work, and they said the new one had been overboard--but we convinced them it must have come that way since it malfunctioned w/in days of arrival and no dunking. So check any "new" phone for that color change when you get it.

 

[tomdinwv]

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I have not went for an unintentional swim, YET. LOL! I have went swimming or waded out in the water with my wallet and keys in my pocket though. I do have a friend that earned the nickname "Bobber Bill". Everytime he gets within 10 feet of water, he ends up in it. I don't care if it's a creek, a lake or river, Bill always goes in.

 

[LippCJ7]

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So I'm sure I have told this story before but I laugh just thinking about it.

one of the first times my wife was driving our new to us boat 2000 Crownline 248 BR 7.4 MPI Bravo III(my dream boat), our old boat was a 92 196 BR 5.7 carbed, great first boat but had that Carb hesitation which made my wife nervous driving it in close quarters, so I put the boat in the water wife drives it off and loiters in the area while I park the truck and trailer then she noses the boat in to the dock to pick me up and I simply jump in is what we do so as she noses in I jump and she puts the boat in reverse to "catch" me well she grabs the same amount of reverse as she would the old boat but what she doesn't realize is we have almost twice the horsepower and two props so twice the bite AND fuel injection so reverse is immediate! Well the bow of the boat catches my forward leg heel and I go into the drink butt end over tea kettle in front of two dozen "witnesses", luckily I threw my keys into the boat in mid jump just in case this happened, never came close to the dock since I can jump pretty good but my poor wife (yeah right) of course she could be the nervous I almost killed my soul mate husband type but oh no I come back to the surface expecting to tell her I'm fine only to see the side of the boat with no one checking on me so I swim to the back of the boat pull out the ladder and climb into the boat to find my wife, step son and three daughters on the floor of the boat laughing their tails off the only concerned party was Brandy our yellow lab who probably thought I was going to feed her, all witnesses were in nearly the same condition so I got to be the comedy show at the ramp that day, thank you baby I love you.....

 

[idonthaveaname]

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I am certainly happy you were not hurt in the fall. Too often, hanging around docks or "just testing the motor" we fall into the creek and since we were "just testing" we didn't put on that life jacket. I lost a cousin cuz he "accidentally" fell out of the boat. Still, and more importantly, get rid of the smokes. I quit, cold turkey, 12 years ago--you should too. Just take one day at a time.

 

[Mikeyboy]

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Lipp it's great to see you wife is the caring type but seriously there is nothing funnier than watching someone go for an unintentional swim so can you really blame them?