This is not a stuipd trick, but rather something that happened to me yesterday on the lake; a learning experience, if you will.
First, let me make an unfair generalization: All jetskiers are A55E5. They buzz up and down the lake, through no wake zones, and next to anglers with total disregard to anything but themselves.
Yesterday, my 4 year old son and I headed to one of the nearby lakes for an afternoon of fishing. While I was preparing the boat for launch, I noticed a young gent working on his jetski about 50 yards from the ramp. After I put the boat in the water, for whatever reason, I trolled over to the guy and offered him the use of my tools and help. For some reason, I was feeling more charitable than usual.
For the next 30 minutes, we worked on his machine and talked about everything from politics to women. His name is Chris and he has a 2 year old daughter that lives with her mother in Virginia. Chirs is trying to fix up his old jetski to sell so he can move up there to be close to his duaghter. He was genuinely interested in learning how to troubleshoot engine-related issues because he plans to attend an ASE-accredited school to become an auto mechanic; although, he admitted to me that he knew nothing about PWC.
When it was all said and done, his ski was fixed, we shook hands, then went on our seperate ways.
That really got me thinking about the generalization to which I alluded earlier in this post. Could I have been wrong all this time? I guess there's a first time for everything.
First, let me make an unfair generalization: All jetskiers are A55E5. They buzz up and down the lake, through no wake zones, and next to anglers with total disregard to anything but themselves.
Yesterday, my 4 year old son and I headed to one of the nearby lakes for an afternoon of fishing. While I was preparing the boat for launch, I noticed a young gent working on his jetski about 50 yards from the ramp. After I put the boat in the water, for whatever reason, I trolled over to the guy and offered him the use of my tools and help. For some reason, I was feeling more charitable than usual.
For the next 30 minutes, we worked on his machine and talked about everything from politics to women. His name is Chris and he has a 2 year old daughter that lives with her mother in Virginia. Chirs is trying to fix up his old jetski to sell so he can move up there to be close to his duaghter. He was genuinely interested in learning how to troubleshoot engine-related issues because he plans to attend an ASE-accredited school to become an auto mechanic; although, he admitted to me that he knew nothing about PWC.
When it was all said and done, his ski was fixed, we shook hands, then went on our seperate ways.
That really got me thinking about the generalization to which I alluded earlier in this post. Could I have been wrong all this time? I guess there's a first time for everything.