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Why I have to keep a sense of humor
How else could I read stories like this and not lose my sanity?
- artie_fufkin
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Re: Why I have to keep a sense of humor
Just be fortunate you're on the other end not as the attorney trying to defend the captain.
Loved the part about him "accidentally" ending up in one of the life boats and the Coast Guardsman tell him to "get the @#$% back on board."
- APIAD
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Re: Why I have to keep a sense of humor
So your in the freaking ocean and you hit a rock. How does that happen? What else is there to watch out for? i have never been on a cruise but I am sure it doesnt move real fast to where a rock can sneek up on you.
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Re: Why I have to keep a sense of humor
"So your in the freaking ocean and you hit a rock. How does that happen?"
It's pretty hard with all the technology you've got on board these days. But the boating community seems to attract idiots, and the system is set up to let them flourish. I don't know about other states, but in Massachusetts it's harder to get a fishing license than it is to get a boating license. My 12-year-old son passed a boating course last summer, so he could take my dad's boat to friggin' China, but I or my wife would have to co-sign for a fishing license if he wanted to fish off the boat.
My dad swears this story is true: A few years ago he was on a friend's boat that ran aground between Newport and Block Island. The Coast Guard arrived and asked the captain why he headed straight into a sandbar that is on every chart of Narragansett Bay. The only thing resembling a chart on board was a placemat that had an image of the state of Rhode Island.