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I just don't understand why...
"RkyMtnHootOwl" wrote in message ... On Wed, 07 Dec 2005 18:30:07 -0500, Galen Hekhuis wrote: On 7 Dec 2005 15:17:35 -0800, wrote: I am not a kayaker but I wonder if perhaps they might make it harder to exit a rolled kayak. Being a sailor, I always wear one. I am a kayaker, and a sailor to boot (lived aboard and owned yawls and sloops) and I a gimp too, and I can tell you from experience that a PFD doesn't make it at all harder for me to exit a rolled kayak if necessary, neither does it make it at all harder to roll one the full 360 degrees. Galen Hekhuis NpD, JFR, GWA Alone we can just aspire to be dumb, but together we can be truly stupid It is a sad thing when people, full of enough life to determine to go on a paddling adventure in order to enjoy the beauty of the world around us, make a bad decision, and someone ends up dead. The others has to live the rest of their lives with the troubling memory, and the Guide will forever question his decisions which may put him out of a job, and facing serious legal consequences. This we can be assured of, this situation has many mitigating circumstances, but terribly sad none the less. Not to disparage the dead, but consider this, two people together, a 49 year old guy with all his attributes, and a 26 year old gal with all her uh "attributes" What the christ is taht supposed to mean? makes for a pretty stupid stew Please explain. Why does a 49 year old guy and a 26 year old gal make for a stupider stew than, say, a 22 year old guy and a 30 year old gal? Considering that he was married, the disparity of age, probable difference in rank, a long way from home, I expect they may have had other things on their minds. What the christ are you talking about? When the mind process is divided, the thinking gets muddled and stupid decisions follow. The guide may have recommended that they use the PFD, but was he in any position to make them put them on, or even hear his recommedation. The guide may have never said a damned thing. Maybe they got in the kayaks, and paddled out on the water. I know a 49 year old that was in a similar situation What situation??? and made similar bad decisions. Luckily, I lived to write this passage, but I realize in hind sight just how stupid, and lucky I was! RkyMtnHootOwl OvO You mean you used to be MORE STUPID than you are now?!? This is really stretching the imagination. |
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