Garrett C
Jet Boat Addict
- Messages
- 62
- Reaction score
- 54
- Points
- 92
- Location
- Lakewood Ranch, FL
- Boat Make
- Yamaha
- Year
- 2018
- Boat Model
- AR
- Boat Length
- 19
I live in the Florida Keys and love going out pretty much every weekend that the wind isn't blowing over 20 mph. With that said this weekend was good to get out. Sunday enjoyed a wonderful day out on the sandbar we have around us with the family. Long story short, got back to the area we live in and dropped off my family at a neighbors dock (wife a 5 y/o and twin 2 y/o daugthers). After that I took the boat over to our marina here on our Navy base I live at. Came into the Marina and noticed that the boat ramp didn't have anyone launching or recovering. I moored my boat on a dock that most normal people moor up to. I hop off the boat, go and get my truck and proceed to back up my truck on the ramp which has two sides generally only room for one boat each side with a finger pier in the middle (4 minutes total). As I am backing up my truck a flats fishing boat with 4 adults and two kids comes over to the ramp and ties up on the side I am backing up my boat trailer on due to someone else doing the exact same thing I was doing on the other ramp.
I get out look at them for a second, analyze the situation to question myself was i really seeing these clowns doing this, and ask them what they were doing?
Lady one: We are going to get our boat out of the water what's it look like?
Me: Um I am clearly backing my truck up to get my boat out as I am a solo boater and there is 4 of you so it is a little more easy for you all.
Lady one: Oh well that is I guess your problem!
Me: Ok I guess it is all of our problems now and just got out of my truck and sat there trying to decide if I want to act like a child or take the high road. Nope, did not take the high road.
Lady two: Don't be a jerk, I can't believe you are not going to get out of our way as we have our boat "ready". (mind you the two males were still in the boat)
Me: I could of had my boat ready as well, but I know better not to block a ramp, especially if my truck is not on the ramp.
Lady two: Well you are ridiculous and childish and I am taking a picture of your license plate, it goes a long way here in Key West. (I had to laugh at that one a few times as she told me twice)
Meanwhile the two guys in the boat aren't saying a thing, lady one is just looking at me like I had three heads, husband goes and gets his jeep and pulls it right next to the other person who was retrieving their boat from the exact pier my boat was just on in the other lane. (I really wish there wasn't all that room on the other side as it would have just pissed off those ladies just that much more, but it was fun watching them mess around with lines and one of the dudes yell at their wife for not letting go of a line.
I am a little blown away as the way they were pissed off at me for being courteous and mooring my boat up at a dock and not at a finger pier on a boat ramp, getting my truck and retrieving my boat.
I guess as I walked away one of the wives flipped me off, I take as they are telling me I am number 1. I am not a confrontational guy as the Military has taught me discipline in my short 19 years, but I could not let these entitled people think they were going to get their way. As you can see the marina parking on the right side of the picture with a short voyage to the ramp on the left side.
I get out look at them for a second, analyze the situation to question myself was i really seeing these clowns doing this, and ask them what they were doing?
Lady one: We are going to get our boat out of the water what's it look like?
Me: Um I am clearly backing my truck up to get my boat out as I am a solo boater and there is 4 of you so it is a little more easy for you all.
Lady one: Oh well that is I guess your problem!
Me: Ok I guess it is all of our problems now and just got out of my truck and sat there trying to decide if I want to act like a child or take the high road. Nope, did not take the high road.
Lady two: Don't be a jerk, I can't believe you are not going to get out of our way as we have our boat "ready". (mind you the two males were still in the boat)
Me: I could of had my boat ready as well, but I know better not to block a ramp, especially if my truck is not on the ramp.
Lady two: Well you are ridiculous and childish and I am taking a picture of your license plate, it goes a long way here in Key West. (I had to laugh at that one a few times as she told me twice)
Meanwhile the two guys in the boat aren't saying a thing, lady one is just looking at me like I had three heads, husband goes and gets his jeep and pulls it right next to the other person who was retrieving their boat from the exact pier my boat was just on in the other lane. (I really wish there wasn't all that room on the other side as it would have just pissed off those ladies just that much more, but it was fun watching them mess around with lines and one of the dudes yell at their wife for not letting go of a line.
I am a little blown away as the way they were pissed off at me for being courteous and mooring my boat up at a dock and not at a finger pier on a boat ramp, getting my truck and retrieving my boat.
I guess as I walked away one of the wives flipped me off, I take as they are telling me I am number 1. I am not a confrontational guy as the Military has taught me discipline in my short 19 years, but I could not let these entitled people think they were going to get their way. As you can see the marina parking on the right side of the picture with a short voyage to the ramp on the left side.