And if Scotty commits suicide it's all your fault isn't it?

You've admitted you like tormenting the weak.

Huh? What's that? Can't hear you, I've got my Wilson WATT/Puppies turned up
all the way!

"Bobsprit" wrote in message
...
I was setting up our new propane grill today and stocking the fridge with
weekend goodies when I was overwhelmed with a wave of sadness.
When did this terrible raging rift occur between Scotty and I? When did
the
cheerful chiding on his part graduate to criminal hatred?
I thought long and hard as I inflated my Zodiac and took her for a test
row.
There was a time when Scotty actually e-mailed me nicely about sailing and
boats. He can deny it, but it's a fact. Why I even sent him a wedding pic,
which later on he decided to post.
Then I remembered...
It was the Catalina 30 troll. The terrible troll that dragged Sailing.asa
around the nose for week after week. But the realization was not contained
within the troll, but the nature of it.
Scotty was HAPPY that I was getting a Catalina 30, a boat he felt was
somewhere
in his ballpark of trailerpark sailboats. Like the low-end Siedlemann, an
old
Catalina 30 is a modest toy to say the least. He liked that, and he
imagined
that we were kindred spirits.
And then the roof caved in for Scotty. I trolled and it was a beautiful
and far
more valuable and upscale C&C 32 that I had bought, a veritable Rolls
Royce to
his Pinto. He wasn't mad about the troll. He was mad about the subtle
manner in
which he imagined he'd been degraded. If I used a catalina 30 as troll
bait,
where did that rank him and his poor boat? At the very bottom.
To add to his anger and bitterness, I was complimented on the troll by
many. It
was the final insult, indirectly supporting (in his mind) the bashing of
his
position in life...and in sailing.

Well, the grill works well, though the Force 10 was better made. I think
my
newer quicksilver rows better than the Zodiac.

Ah well...

Capt RB
C&C 32
City Island, NY