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Jullianna
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I was just talking with a friend over the phone at lunch about a wierd adventure we'd had YEARS ago. I would love to read some of your wierd adventures. Please share! 
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This is the one we were talking about:
A bunch of us (mostly cops) wanted to go waterskiing on the river, so one of the guys talked the bossman into allowing us to use his boat. We ran up and down the river for a bit and the guys wanted to fish, so they went fishing while the ladies went waterskiing. Having completely taken leave of my senses, and because I REALLY love to ski, I let one of the ladies drive the boat who'd never driven a boat before...
She ended up getting WAY too close to a small fishing boat containing a group of guys who looked like they'd stepped out of that show SWAMP PEOPLE and caused quite a ruckus, and nearly jerked my arms out of the sockets. My first thought: We are all going to die now. I yelled profuse apologies and had her head for the sandbar where we'd set up a camp of sorts.
The guys had finished fishing and wanted to take the boat out, so we ladies went for a swim. The same lady who couldn't drive a boat, couldn't swim either, but wanted to give it a shot, so we'd kept one of the life preservers for her. She was doing great until a fish swam by and tickled her foot. She jumped on my back and I thought she was going to drown me! But we got her back to shore.
We decided to gather wood and build a fire, and see if we could put some food together before the guys got back. We all waited by the fire..and waited..and waited... It was getting dark and COLD and the mosquitos were HORRIBLE!!! Finally, after HOURS, the guys came walking along the shoreline, PULLING the boat. They said they couldn't get the boat started. And this was before everyone had cellphones...
We all sat around the fire covered with sand to keep the mosquitos off as much as possible and tried to figure out what we should do. We knew the bossman would be looking for us, but we didn't know how to let anyone know where we were other than to build the fire.
We discussed swimming the river. Several of us were strong swimmers, but all of us had worked cases where people had got gotten too close to the barges traveling up and down the river and had been sucked under, so trying to do this IN THE DARK seemed like a VERY bad idea.
After an hour or two, we hear a voice. A familiar voice. It was the boss on the other side of the river using his car PA. He'd been traveling along the shoreline yelling for us since sunset. We yelled as loud as we could, lit some branches on fire and waved them around like crazy until we didn't hear him anymore.
About half an hour later, we were river rescued by some volunteers. The boss climbed in his boat, checked a few things...and the boat started right up so he could take it (and us) home. Apparently the guys we thought knew so much about boats had been drinking so much that they hadn't switched the gas tank over to the other tank....
The boss never let any of us ever forget that. He took us back out on his boat a time or two, but never let us borrow it again.
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This is the one we were talking about:
A bunch of us (mostly cops) wanted to go waterskiing on the river, so one of the guys talked the bossman into allowing us to use his boat. We ran up and down the river for a bit and the guys wanted to fish, so they went fishing while the ladies went waterskiing. Having completely taken leave of my senses, and because I REALLY love to ski, I let one of the ladies drive the boat who'd never driven a boat before...
She ended up getting WAY too close to a small fishing boat containing a group of guys who looked like they'd stepped out of that show SWAMP PEOPLE and caused quite a ruckus, and nearly jerked my arms out of the sockets. My first thought: We are all going to die now. I yelled profuse apologies and had her head for the sandbar where we'd set up a camp of sorts.
The guys had finished fishing and wanted to take the boat out, so we ladies went for a swim. The same lady who couldn't drive a boat, couldn't swim either, but wanted to give it a shot, so we'd kept one of the life preservers for her. She was doing great until a fish swam by and tickled her foot. She jumped on my back and I thought she was going to drown me! But we got her back to shore.
We decided to gather wood and build a fire, and see if we could put some food together before the guys got back. We all waited by the fire..and waited..and waited... It was getting dark and COLD and the mosquitos were HORRIBLE!!! Finally, after HOURS, the guys came walking along the shoreline, PULLING the boat. They said they couldn't get the boat started. And this was before everyone had cellphones...
We all sat around the fire covered with sand to keep the mosquitos off as much as possible and tried to figure out what we should do. We knew the bossman would be looking for us, but we didn't know how to let anyone know where we were other than to build the fire.
We discussed swimming the river. Several of us were strong swimmers, but all of us had worked cases where people had got gotten too close to the barges traveling up and down the river and had been sucked under, so trying to do this IN THE DARK seemed like a VERY bad idea.
After an hour or two, we hear a voice. A familiar voice. It was the boss on the other side of the river using his car PA. He'd been traveling along the shoreline yelling for us since sunset. We yelled as loud as we could, lit some branches on fire and waved them around like crazy until we didn't hear him anymore.
About half an hour later, we were river rescued by some volunteers. The boss climbed in his boat, checked a few things...and the boat started right up so he could take it (and us) home. Apparently the guys we thought knew so much about boats had been drinking so much that they hadn't switched the gas tank over to the other tank....
The boss never let any of us ever forget that. He took us back out on his boat a time or two, but never let us borrow it again.