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My situation is easy, I act like a Knuckle head when I ingest alcohol, come to think of it, I'm a "Knuckle head" without alcohol, so why bother ? I always end up "VERY" sick over the toilet, it's not a pretty site. I am lucky because, I "REALIZE" this, so when the drink's come out, I order a coke or coffee, it has been working wonderful for the past 10 years, Alcohol always spell's "Trouble" for "ME", so I avoid it (this is NOT the case with everyone who drink's, just "me"). I do NOT hold anything against anyone having a couple of Beer's, or a few drink's, it just that ahhh, I'll drive ya in my car if ya don't mind, I'll pick ya up and drop ya off too ! I'm often the "Designated driver", I have no problem with that. It's just that when I'm out in the boat, and I see someone "Chuggin" one, I get nervous, and wonder if the guy is like "ME".
surfncnow wrote:
I will admit, I have a few beers while boating and don't see an issue with it being done. It irritates my ass hearing folks demanding drivers permit to operate a boat. "It will generate revenue my ass." If you feel that way, pick a new hobby. For me, boating is a way to escape society.
Sorry for the rant.
I'm with you mate. Talk about driver's permits for operating a small boat chaps my backside too. Boating is a great escape for me. A few simple rules, a few easy to observe guidelines for respecting other boaters, and the door is wide open with the potential for the freedom to do whatever I please with a minimum of interference from authorities.
I really believe it's the same allure that captivates all of us - the freedom aspect of it. It's just that for a few non-critical thinkers that means getting as wasted as possible as quickly as possible.
I'm 55 now. I started boating when I was 3. I started drinking beer when I was 16. So for quite a long time now boating and drinking beer have been going hand in hand. Can't say much about the hard stuff but a bottle of wine while floating IN the sunset can be a fine thing too. By the same token, a day on the water with nothing but water to drink suits me fine too.
Here's a recent news story from our own Flathead Lake in Montana. I can only say that no matter how wasted I've ever been in a boat I never got so bad I couldn't tell where shore was!
Edit - Forgot to add - the state senator was drunk when he crashed the boat and there's a lawsuit of some kind pending.
Edit - Oh heck, it wasn't that he was drunk, it's just that officers took blood alcohol content measurements and the results for that guy weren't released. Maybe 2 + 2 = something other than 4, I don't know, especially with a boatload of politicians!
Edited by theo on 11/13/09 - 10:42 AM
Ted
1985 15' CC, 1994 60 hp Merc (Wednesday built), 5" jack plate
I had to laugh at this.
"I'm not a drinker especially when I'm usually out with the kiddies doing all the work. Baiting hooks and blowin' the inflatables."
Yes after having blown a few inflatables;
I don't think that anyone will have to have any bruskies to get a buzz.
I wonder as to why I did miss that one before.***~:]
Very funny and true.
