"Marley" wrote in message ...
Capt. NealŪ wrote:
wrote in message oups.com...
As soon as I had picked up the rental car to drive one way from
Tallahassee to my boat in Bradenton to continue my cruise for a few
days, I get a call from my sons Juvenile Probabtion Officer who informs
me they require urine tests 3 days a week and meetings with counselors
twice a week. Of course, this completely blows my cruise.
I do not know how to react to this drug program and do not know if they
are over reacting to my son being busted at school for a few gms of pot
or not. Of course he did it and needs some punishment and counseling
but I cannot tell if he will be better off with me on my cruise or by
being in their program. For now, I will withhold judgement.
The hard part is being separated from my boat by a 5 hour drive during
hurricane season. I tied her up as well as I could and plan to visit
her once a month. My sons program is for 6 months which puts me into
late October when it will start getting cool again.
I s'pose we can do other boating things like sail the MiniCups and I am
getting him into racing a Laser for the local yacht club and getting
him into Crew (rowing) so he doesnt have any time for mischief.
The continuing soap-operatic gushings of an unfit father . . .
CN
Someone posted a keen observation that I will repeat:
"There are but two possibilities:
1) In "real life" Neal is an absolute coward, terrified of others and therefore keeps his foul mouth shut.
2) In "real life" Neal gets punched in his foul mouth on a regular (perhaps daily) basis. "
May I add a third?
In real life, Capt. Neal is of the opinion that a man should not mince
words just to spare the sensibilities of the thin-skinned and the ignorant.
CN
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