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My first guess would be a weekend joyride by one of the people hired to
"detail" your boat, or maybe the forklift operator. Little Miss Putout
was probably very impressed with her date's "new boat", and a little
beer (see scrape) probably lubed the situation rather nicely as the date
progressed.

I sense some projecting here Chuck.

I had similar fantasies while growing up, portions of which were
realized. Fortunately, I didn't have to steal a boat since my folks had
an Owens with plenty of mahogany and teak that required my attention.

Tell me you never did the same?



I have a unique perspective on similar incidents, having been in the
automobile business for a long time. You don't even want to hear the
stories about lot boys (and some salesmen) and conversion vans... but
one bears mentioning. I used to rev-up the sales team with a Hu-Rah!
meeting every Saturday morning, and one week we were advertising a big
sales promotion on conversion vans. Immediately after the meeting, we
went out to the garage to move the conversion vans to the front line,
deck them out with balloons, and make a big schlocky "to-do". I opened
up a freshly detailed conversion van to discover my partner's
20-something son (who had been absent from the meeting) and his
hope-she-was-legal conquest of the night before passed out inside the
van. We can say they weren't "dressed for prime time." I think we had
to reupholster the fold-out couch. :-)


Great story, made me laugh. As a 16 year old I dreamed of owning a
panel wagon or hearse with the sole purpose of it being a mobile
boudoir.

Your partner's son had it easy.

jps

On Tue, 5 Jul 2005 19:10:47 -0700, jps wrote:

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On Tue, 5 Jul 2005 18:29:28 -0700, jps wrote:

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On Wed, 06 Jul 2005 00:32:41 GMT, "Eisboch"
wrote:

Hey, it all comes out in the wash. When the bad karma is accounted
for, he'll be relegated to working his way back up the vertebrate food
chain for the next couple hundred lifetimes. :)

Do your wife and children know you're talking this way? Sounds a bit
cosmic for your ilk.

My ilk? As in type or kind? I'm typecast as not being capable of
understanding a foreign concept like karma?

Bummer....

My wife and children are leftist commie pinkos. Good people and we
are all one happy family, but they are what they are. And I am what I
am - Cosmic man - truly cosmic.

To me, you seem like you might be more comfy with the Hairy Thunderer
than the Comic Muffin. If I'm wrong, please accept my apology and
congratulations.

MIGHTY THOR!!!! I Like it.

My next (perhaps unfounded) assumption is that your commie wife and kids
have at least something to do with your cosmicness.

I kid them a lot and vice versa, but it works. My comicne ...er...
cosmicness actually comes from being a science fiction fan, engineer
and part time philosopher. :)

i would file a complaint with the Attorney General Office and then with the
better business burea. You might be able to get him to cover the cost of the
repairs .Atleast anyone can see if he has a mark against his business when
checking up on them.
"Eisboch" wrote in message
...
by a shady boat storage marina in Florida.

A year and a half ago I trailered a new Scout Sportsfish 202 from Ma to
Florida and decided to store it a rack storage facility near Jupiter
Inlet.
It turns out I never used it in Florida, however I did check on it from
time
to time and paid the marina to clean and detail it a couple of times.

The boat had 5 hours on the engine meter (Yamaha 200 four stroke) when I
took it to the storage place. I never took the boat out.

Last week, I had my nephew pick up the boat and clean it up to sell. He
just called me and told me:

a) The boat has a waterline mark on the hull from sitting in a slip on
the
ICW.
b) The engine meter now has 23 hours on it.
c) There is some minor damage (2-inch deep scrape) on one of the sides -
something that
would result from a failed docking attempt.

I called the storage place an hour ago and happened to get the owner. I
asked him if he could explain why the engine now has 23 hours and has
minor
damage.
He denies that the boat ever left the rack and hung up on me.

Fortunately, other than the minor scrape, the boat is fine otherwise and
the
engine runs fine. But man, does this crap **** me off!

Eisboch (venting)