wingmastr23
Petty Officer 1st Class
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- Oct 26, 2009
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Well - here it goes.
Our family just finished a great day on the lake (Silverwood Lake) and I pulled my boat up to the dock to begin loading.
Upon arrival, my wife (who parked the truck/trailer) realizes she doesn't have the keys. She begins a frantic search of her purse, storage compartments, coolers, etc - NO DICE!
So - she jumps out of the boat and starts retracing her steps back to the truck. She comes back a few minutes later and she can't find them. So I jump out and do the same thing, just making sure she didn't miss something.....Of course the level of steam that is coming out my ears is increasing every minute. I don't find them.
I am sure I said a few things to my sweetheart of a wife that chased her away - but after a few minutes I am back in the boat with my kids - and my wife is "looking" again (probably just trying to stay away from me...:facepalm
I start ransacking the boat - while I am down in the floor on my hands and knees something bangs into the port side of my boat - I look up and there is some idiot on a jetski that obviously hasn't ever driven one.....I said "What the hell man!" and he didn't even apologize - he just tried to motor away as fast as he could.....Now I am REALLY annoyed!
I put my head back down and start looking again and WHAM! Something bangs into the aft....HARD! I look up and there is an asian family in their new sea ray. The father is trying to guide the boat/dock boat while mom and 4 kids sit and watch. I growl something and shove his boat away from my boat.
I swear, I hadn't had my head down for 30 seconds and WHAM! The same friggin family is banging into my boat again! This time I yelled at them and I shoved their boat as hard as I possibly could...and if looks could do damage, I probably would have sunk their boat.
I continued digging for the keys and BINGO - I found them! I flagged down my wife - had her get back in the boat with our kids while I ran to get in line at the ramp. After waiting for about 10-15 minutes for an opening, I finally back down the ramp. (Of course since my wife cannot back a trailer, or load the boat, I have to do everything...usually no biggie.)
I back the trailer down, and jump out of the truck, and jog over to the dock - as I get to the dock I see another jetski - it is lodged between the bow of my boat and the dock, with my mooring line somehow draped over the guy....AND - the friggin jetski is at WOT!!!!!! My boat is rocking back and forth, etc. I run down the dock ready to start drowning people.
As I arrive, I see this guy with a panicked look on his face, his buddies are wrestling with the jetski, and they finally got the thing shut down. Come to find out, they tried to put a cooler in the guys lap for him to putt across the lake - in doing so, the cooler pushed the throttle down and when the guy started up the jetski - wham! Right into my boat.
By this time, I am freaking out, yelling, etc. All the while the guy is saying in broken English "I pay, I pay!!" I was like - HELL YEA YOU PAY!! Look at scratches all over my boat!
All the while this is going on, my truck is running with the trailer in the water, taking up a coveted ramp slot. So, I send my wife to the truck, and I pull the boat around and load it. While I am doing that, the jetskier's brother walks over to our truck/boat and begins talking to me while I am loading. I am so ticked off at this point, I am ready to chew nails.....I get the boat cranked down, and signal to the wife to start pulling up - in about 10 seconds I hear a dreadful sound - my skeg dragging on the freaking ramp....in all the crap, I forgot to trim up the outboard. I scream STOP!!!! Thankfully, my wife heard me, and that mistake was caught before it did any damage!
We pulled up to a parking slot and I jumped out to assess the damage.....all there ended up being was some surface scratches that could be sanded/buffed out. It turned out that the jetskiers were good guys....They asked me how much damage I thought there was, I told them that I could probably buff it out myself - they handed me $500 cash and we parted ways.
Unreal.....
Our family just finished a great day on the lake (Silverwood Lake) and I pulled my boat up to the dock to begin loading.
Upon arrival, my wife (who parked the truck/trailer) realizes she doesn't have the keys. She begins a frantic search of her purse, storage compartments, coolers, etc - NO DICE!
So - she jumps out of the boat and starts retracing her steps back to the truck. She comes back a few minutes later and she can't find them. So I jump out and do the same thing, just making sure she didn't miss something.....Of course the level of steam that is coming out my ears is increasing every minute. I don't find them.
I am sure I said a few things to my sweetheart of a wife that chased her away - but after a few minutes I am back in the boat with my kids - and my wife is "looking" again (probably just trying to stay away from me...:facepalm
I start ransacking the boat - while I am down in the floor on my hands and knees something bangs into the port side of my boat - I look up and there is some idiot on a jetski that obviously hasn't ever driven one.....I said "What the hell man!" and he didn't even apologize - he just tried to motor away as fast as he could.....Now I am REALLY annoyed!
I put my head back down and start looking again and WHAM! Something bangs into the aft....HARD! I look up and there is an asian family in their new sea ray. The father is trying to guide the boat/dock boat while mom and 4 kids sit and watch. I growl something and shove his boat away from my boat.
I swear, I hadn't had my head down for 30 seconds and WHAM! The same friggin family is banging into my boat again! This time I yelled at them and I shoved their boat as hard as I possibly could...and if looks could do damage, I probably would have sunk their boat.
I continued digging for the keys and BINGO - I found them! I flagged down my wife - had her get back in the boat with our kids while I ran to get in line at the ramp. After waiting for about 10-15 minutes for an opening, I finally back down the ramp. (Of course since my wife cannot back a trailer, or load the boat, I have to do everything...usually no biggie.)
I back the trailer down, and jump out of the truck, and jog over to the dock - as I get to the dock I see another jetski - it is lodged between the bow of my boat and the dock, with my mooring line somehow draped over the guy....AND - the friggin jetski is at WOT!!!!!! My boat is rocking back and forth, etc. I run down the dock ready to start drowning people.
As I arrive, I see this guy with a panicked look on his face, his buddies are wrestling with the jetski, and they finally got the thing shut down. Come to find out, they tried to put a cooler in the guys lap for him to putt across the lake - in doing so, the cooler pushed the throttle down and when the guy started up the jetski - wham! Right into my boat.
By this time, I am freaking out, yelling, etc. All the while the guy is saying in broken English "I pay, I pay!!" I was like - HELL YEA YOU PAY!! Look at scratches all over my boat!
All the while this is going on, my truck is running with the trailer in the water, taking up a coveted ramp slot. So, I send my wife to the truck, and I pull the boat around and load it. While I am doing that, the jetskier's brother walks over to our truck/boat and begins talking to me while I am loading. I am so ticked off at this point, I am ready to chew nails.....I get the boat cranked down, and signal to the wife to start pulling up - in about 10 seconds I hear a dreadful sound - my skeg dragging on the freaking ramp....in all the crap, I forgot to trim up the outboard. I scream STOP!!!! Thankfully, my wife heard me, and that mistake was caught before it did any damage!
We pulled up to a parking slot and I jumped out to assess the damage.....all there ended up being was some surface scratches that could be sanded/buffed out. It turned out that the jetskiers were good guys....They asked me how much damage I thought there was, I told them that I could probably buff it out myself - they handed me $500 cash and we parted ways.
Unreal.....
