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I ain’t been to a boat ramp in thirty years....

Fug sharing lakes with others.

I just buy talapia for my fish frys.

Unlike many here, I prefer to leave my house every once in a while. Unfortunately, that sometimes means dealing with dipshitts at the boat launch.

Stepdad or real dad?

Salty gal, either way. God bless her.

You guys are really missing out by not going to the boat ramp, it's more entertaining than any show on tv. You won't believe how many people can't back up a trailer ,remember to put the plug in a boat or remember to put their vehicle into park and set the emergency brake before getting out of the vehicle. I've seen guys take off all the straps off their boat and try to back down the ramp and the boat would roll right off the trailer onto the ramp. Sometimes when I get a dock for the weekend, I'll pick one where I can watch the ramp.

Sad. Doesn't take much to bring out true colors. Once in a while though, a really good kid surfaces from those messes but sometimes they can go too far the other way. Friend of a friend joined us one day on a trout outing. The guy had gotten regular beatings as a child, and he and his wife went to the other extreme with their youngster. Kid raised holy hell all day and never got so much as a cross look. I was really heart broken (not) when they announced they'd not be able to camp with us for the night.

The next 4 hours of conversation was focused solely on that kid and how we could likely straighten him out with just a brief trip to the wood shed.

Happy life on FB.... plenty of pics. Smiles.

She’ll put up with it long as he pays the car note, takes her on vacay..... worth it she thinks.

Yes. See that quite often. Fat guy sits in the boat while some tiny gal tries to maneuver a long bed crew cab and 20 ft trailer through a maze and down the ramp.

Worst one I went to help with was a huge Winnebago and small boat trailer. This was before cameras. I got in the driver's seat and one could not see any portion of the trailer in the mirrors on either side. If one could see a back corner, he'd already lost it.

Real dad...
After he got out of the hospital, he never went home. Still live in the same small town, but they have been divorced ever since.

I put a hitch receiver tube under the front bumper of a Class A motorhome- - - - - -got dozens of double takes as I pushed the boat trailer through lakeside campgrounds on the way to the boat launch ramp!
Jerry

Son and I limited out on the stripers again today. Fun and good eats.

Coming in to our spot this morning there was a wrecked boat on the river bank partially submerged. Big fiberglass double-decker. Old piece of junk. It wasn't there when we left yesterday about noon. Only thing we could figure is the boater slammed into that big snag downstream ripping out the hull. Sheriff boat patrol came by to check it out and they idled by to chat for a minute. Said there is no registered owner probably just "another river rat". Asked him how they were going to get it out of there he just shrugged, "I don't know".

Whoever abandoned that boat better have had a cell phone and a friend because it's a long walk to town from there.

Most of the people I see at the boat ramp are at least trying to get their stuff done and move along, Sure sometimes things don't go as planned, but I don't hold it against them as long as they are at least trying and not being stupid. One example a couple of weeks ago was a couple that were in an older boat, a pretty big like 24' center console. When we came by the ramp for a bathroom break around lunch time, the wife was swimming the boat back to the courtesy dock as their motor had died. I offered to help, but they were almost there and declined our offer. When we came back almost three hours later to pull out they were still there, but now had backed their trailer down the ramp and were trying to get the boat loaded with no motor, and another little john boat trying to act as a tug. It is only a two lane ramp and of course they blocked one side for a good amount of time, but not really their fault so I just floated around and listened to some music while my wife waited in line with the truck. No big deal, we just waited our turn. I like my fishing and boating to be fun and relaxing, and if that means I have to wait from someone to get their s#!t together, I try to not let it bother me. At the same time, my wife and I have our system down and can have the boat launched or retrieved in a matter of a couple of minutes. I'm lucky that she has some good trailer backing skills and we can communicate without the level of anger that some couples seem to hold.

Wifey operates the boat, I operate the truck. She does very well.

3) NEVER EVER EVER EVER REMODEL OR BUILD A house

[quote=akasparky]I use to run with a guy that was the craziest mf'er on earth when it came to launching a boat at a public ramp.
He was a Vietnam vet that was totally fu_ckup from Agent Orange, he use to be on a crew that landed their helicopters in freshly defoliated jungles and do body counts of how many gook's they'd managed to gun down.

He was the biggest hothead with the shortest fuse of any man I have ever been around.

He had a pretty nice 24 ft'er we fished out of often, at the ramps, you just had to drift away and pretend you weren't with him.

We're putting in one day and there was a man and wife team struggling to get their s_hit together and get off the dock.
My friend is white knucklin' it, veins poppin' out in his neck as he heated up waiting to back the boat in.

He finally pop's his door open and storms down to the dock screaming, this guy meets him head on tellin' him to fu_ck off and my bud takes a swing at him, the dude ducks and his wife takes the hit right up the side of the head and falls off the dock into the water...We dumped the boat in right beside the guy as he retrieved his wife and tended her wounds.

A couple weeks after that episode we were pullin' his boat out at a ramp, it was a heavy beast, if I recall right it was a Searay.
The boats about 2/3's the way on the trailer when the power wench quit working. He jumps in the truck floors it, get's up on the flat and locks up the brakes. The boat come rippin' at us, blew both sides walls over on the bed of the truck, broke the rear window out and creased the roof of the cab....The power wench and stanchion it was mounted on just folded over.

I took a cab home as he waited out a wrecker service.

I changed that MF'ers life forever when I introduced him to thc, he was the chillest guy you'd ever meet forever more.

When I get to a boat ramp I just sit back and enjoy the show and wait until the mayhem clears to take my turn.....

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My little brother had to spend a bunch of weekends in jail for nearly beating to death a guy that tried to sucker punch him and hit his girlfriend square in the mouth. My brother out of instinct ducked and the guy hit her right in the teeth. Brother beat him 3/4's to death before the cops arrived and pulled him off.

I went out with a gal like that, after I got divorced back in 1987...

My G/F would cross the same situation that she'd been in before with the ex, who was physically abusive to her...
More than one, if in the kitchen, she would quickly reach in a drawer and pull out a butcher knife...with fear in her eyes...

I'd calmly ask her what she was doing? She'd look at it and then her face would turn in a look of terror, and she would drop the knife like it was on fire.. almost anything she would immediate defensive stance at the drop of a hat....

Her ex dropped off her 2 year old daughter one Sunday evening.. and I have no idea why, but the next second he was just going after her....I intercepted him.. he hit me once... I did nothing, so he hit me again....I was 5 inches taller than the guy and outweighed him by a good 50 to 60 lbs... he was 140 and I was 200 lbs...I grabbed his shirt and hit him in the face 3 times and then just let him drop... he never got rid of her ever again....

Too many times those types have no problem beating on a woman.. but when they suddenly get hurt in the process they crumble like a wet soda cracker...I don't get it...

but then, my G/F later admitted to being sexually abused as a kid by her step dad... and later after her divorce was final, her ex sister in laws, came to her one at a time individually, without the knowledge of the other two sisters doing the same.. her husband's Dad, had evidently raped each of his daughter regularly after they hit 12 or 13... the dad had told them if they told anyone, he'd kill them...

you get people like that, its a generational dysfunction.. which is pretty damned sad...

When my wife and I were first married, we had a plugged sewer line. Not having the funds for a plumber, we tackled the problem ourselves. Finding the cleanout, and armed with a garden hose with an attachment designed for this task we went to work. She manned the spigot, and I got the business end of the bargain. Just before she turned on the water I held her gently by the shoulders, looked her in the eyes and told her "If you hear me yell, don't say 'What?', just turn the water off. And remember, no matter what happens...I will still love you."

Years later, whenever we have a project or unpleasant task, we start it off with...no matter what happens.

Just checked to be sure. My iPad doesn’t know about the fish apparently. Maybe Siri has spent too much time on the pole....

Man and wife aren’t meant to do projects together. I built a house with mine, remodeled it some together. She is an Aggie Engineer, knows everything about anything mechanical (so she thinks). It was a ton of fun, we formed it, put dirt, plumbing, electrical, steel in it. Dug grade beams, guy I went to high school with poured it. We framed it, did everything but insulate and hang Sheetrock. Had a bricklayer do the brick. That was the longest two years of my life. Biggest fight we ever had was laying wood flooring out.

The sins of the father shouldn't carry down to the wife and especially not the child. I would leave him in a NY minute but I couldn't leave behind the mother and child.

But if you tossed HIS ass overboard and into the lake after getting mother and child on your boat, SHE would probably jump on your back and slit your throat with your own filet knife.

Often the sins of the father are enabled and fully supported by the mother. Ask any cop who has to respond to domestic disturbance calls.

Good on you.