Lake boaters, in salt water, will continue to be scary.....

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Well, isn't most seas just "bigger" lakes?

But I'm too far from REAL salt water in three directions,(E,W,S) so
there's nothing to fear from me, Gene.

On Jul 16, 11:24*am, Wizard of Woodstock wrote:
On Thu, 16 Jul 2009 10:48:36 -0500, Vic Smith

wrote:
On Thu, 16 Jul 2009 10:49:51 -0400, Gene Kearns
wrote:

You've really put your finger on the problem..... I've been a teacher
for 36 years and I have YET to figure out how to teach common sense.
You just can't fix stupid.
http://www.msfn.org/board/index.php?showtopic=121349

LOL
Hmmm. *Reminds me of blonde jokes, but new to me.

I don't know *- a couple of those are a little suspicious - actually
most of them except for the car key one.

But, having said that, I had this happen to me. Neighbor knocks on my
door and asks if he can use the phone. *Sure - what's up?

He says he changed all his phones over to wireless and they didn't
work. So I'm thinking - hmmmm...

Tell you what, let's go look at it.

Sure enough - the phones weren't connected to the phone lines and the
power cords were still in the box. So I connected the lines, plugged
in the power and the phones work.

Guys looks at me and says he's going to take the phones back. *

Why?

They are supposed to be wireless.

I swear that is absolutely true. *:)

I put up with stuff like that daily!

I ahd a guy bring a starter to me, and I inspected it and it was fine.
I told him he needed a battery. So int he afternoon he brought the
starter back and I looked it over again just to make sure it was fine.
It wasn't new but far from bad.
He did bring his new battery for me to test,a nd when he set it on my
bench it said 2003 and had "Parke Avenue" written in yellow junk yard
ink.

I said. "this battery is scrap, It won't even hold 7 volts. why didn't
you get a new one?"

He looked at me and said; "Well, it's new to me..."

"Why didn't you get a BRAND NEW battery!"

"Why, those cost about $65.00 and this one was only $25.00 down at
Mikes Salvage...!!!"

yeah, and now it's going to cost you about $90.00 because you already
blew $25 on a junk one.

He left disgruntled, but.....

Yeah, I put up with it daily...

On Thu, 16 Jul 2009 19:27:28 -0700 (PDT), Tim
wrote:

"Why, those cost about $65.00 and this one was only $25.00 down at
Mikes Salvage...!!!"

Oh - so it's cheap stories huh?

There's a guy here in town who we call "The Tinker" - part pun, part
truth. He's so freakin' cheap that once, when his well pump crapped
out, his family went without water for three weeks while he pulled the
pump out of the well, tore the pump down, rebuilt the motor and put it
back into the well (a neighbor would let him use a hose from his house
to fill up a 55 gallon drum) - the wife used the hospital employee
showers and the kids used the Middle School Gym facilities. He had a
hole in his roof for two/three years that he waited to repair until
the rest of the roof started leaking - kept it covered with plywood
and a blue tarp. When he replaced his roof, he did it by buying rusty
old steel roofing from the scrap yard in Putnam. His house is never
above 50 degrees in the winter, the family is always in winter coats
even inside, he collects wood from the side of the road to use in an
old rattle trap Franklin stove he got at the dump...I'm sorry -
Recycling Transfer Station. He drives an old rusted out Ford Country
Squire station wagon and has four others in his back yard for spare
parts. He won't buy a second car so his wife walks to work in Putnam
(about two miles to the hospital - she's a nurse).

Here's the kicker - he's one of the most sought after diesel mechanics
around. There isnt' a diesel this guy can't fix and he's a specialist
in International and Volvo diesel engines. His shop is spotless and
has all the latest and greatest tools from Snap-on, Mac, etc. Every
piece of test equipment known to man or science for working on diesels
he has. He charges $110/hr and he's got trucks lined up all in neat
rows in his yard - his road fee is $225 an hour and time starts from
the moment he gets the call - which he goes out to in a brand new
F-450 diesel pickup with a custom mobile shop on the frame. He has
one of the newest and biggest heavy truck tow vehicles I've ever seen
- he gets $150 just to start the engine on it when he goes out to
recover a stuck truck and charges some outrageous amount of money to
tow a truck/trailer combo back to his shop. He has two top notch
mechanics working for him and he's not stingy with pay and hands out a
yearly bonus.

And on top of all that, he's one of the nicest guys you'd ever want to
meet - you need a volunteer for a town committee or to help with a
charitable event, he's there and it's the same with his wife - his
kids are smart and all well adjusted.

Go figure.