Re: Boat ramp, RANT!
BuckeyeBoater, where do you boat? I'm at Buckeye Lake a lot... plan on going out to the fireworks Sunday if the weather cooperates. Would like to face-to-face w/ya sometime, if you'd like.<br /><br />Lubedude, best I can tell you is count to ten and remind yourself that there, but for the grace of God, goes somebody eligible to win a Darwin award. He'll cross the wrong young buck in time and will get his 'come-uppance', or worse.<br />Like some others, I sometimes like to stay and watch the ramp antics. Some are downright funny, others pitiful, and some (like me) are 'experts', hehehe. Seems that no one can _____ (drive, boat, load, unload... you fill in the blank) better than you and me.<br />Reminds me of one particular busy day at the ramp, I was backed down waiting for my wife to pull up on the trailer, and on the opposite side, a newbie pulls past the courtesy dock and ties up to the ramp dock. He jumps out and heads for his tow vehicle. As he was passing, I said, "You surely aren't going to tie up the ramp, are you?" He replied, "Well, yes." I pointed to the line of those waiting for the ramp, some with boats and some with empty trailers. "Do you see that line?", I asked. "Yeah", he said. "Well, if you tie up that ramp, those guys are gonna KILL YOU.", I said, serious as a heart attack. Then, I explained the procedure of tying up at the courtesy dock and pulling his vehicle around to the end of the line until it was his turn. He said, "You mean I've got to wait in THAT line?" I said, "Unless you've got a serious death-wish, then yeah."<br />Some people aren't as rude as you might think, they're just plain neophytes that don't know better.<br />Sorry this went so long....
