[quote]on edge wrote:
[quote]Captnoblivious wrote:
Lost Opportunity:
We’re about to trailer our boat and see three very good looking young women and one dude launching a boat. The ladies don’t seem to know much about boating so the one young man, probably with dirty deeds on his mind launches the boat. Well kinda!
The boat won’t start and floats off the trailer into the forebay of the lake. So here is the young buck with three hot ladies and a busted motherfucking boat. I kinda felt bad for him. [/quote]
Cap, was that lake Coeur d’Alene in Idaho? If so, that might have been my nephew. And the whole story is even better…
When you store a boat for the winter you add a fuel protectant to the tank and then top it off with gas. We did this at the end of one season then missed a seasoned due to having a baby. So the boat sat idle for two winters and a summer. During that time much of the gas had evaporated but not the fuel protectant so the protectant became to concentrated in the gas, but I didn’t know this at the time.
My nephew came to live with us and he was excited to take the new friends (girls) he had made out on the boat when summer came around. The morning he wanted to go I pulled the boat out, hooked it up to the garden hose, fired it up and had it purring like a kitten in the front street. I went over everything with my him about starting it, driving it, loading it etc. It was all review for him because he had gone out with us frequently when he visited in past summers.
When his friends arrived, they took off but an hour later he calls me saying he can’t get it started. I talk him through the steps to take to get it running but no luck. Finally they decide just to play at the lake for a while then come home.
A few hours later I get another call. “Um Uncle Edge, we’re on the side of the road because one of the trailer wheels came flying off”. My response was “Oh my god is my truck okay?” He said yes so I then inquired about the boat and him and the girls in that order.
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Farther south, but I’m sure this tale of woe has been repeated by many a man youngg and old across the country! ha
Well one thing I would say is at least he had to motivation to take the boat out and you were cool enough to let him borrow your boat and truck. Shit happens!
