Boat Owner 
2003 Reader Submission
Pending Acceptance
y friend tells this story better than me, as it happened to him.
One fall day after repairing his inboard speed boat, decides he needs to try it out on a nearby lake. Not wanting to go alone he asks a young friend to go along. They unload the boat and proceed to drift out a ways till its safe to
take off. My Friend (Daryl) notices they have forgotten to install the drain plug and they take on a bit of water. Now every boat owner knows if you get the boat going.. a vortex is formed over the drain hole and the water will drain, at whcih time Daryl planned to install the plug. He tells the young friend to take off when he says go...
As he stands to go to the rear of the boat the young friend sitting at the drivers seat turns to watch and with one hand on the wheel...his foot accidently pushes down on the gas pedal of the powerfull speed boat..with his hand at the same time turns the steering wheel sharply. The boat shoots forward and sideways Daryl falls out dressed in cowboy boats and feather vest... the boat goes up and backend first...sinks to the nose. The floats in the nose keep it barely afloat. The young friend, of course, can't swim.
As he crys for help, it all Daryl can do to swim to shore. After a tiring swim Daryl finds a group of campers with a boat nearby to rescue the young fellow and tow the boat to the boat ramp a bit at a time with just the nose sticking up.
After getting the boat loaded finally.. its dark.. the guys are cold...but not wantng to ruin the inboard engine....Daryl drives home, boat in tow.. and pulls thru his garage. (The garage has pull thru doors on each end.)
He begins to drain the oil and gas from the wet engine, allowing the fluids to drain onto the garage floor thinking they will find the floor drain. But after only a few secs notices a blue flame dancing across the garage floor from the gas hot water tank from the gasoline flowing on the foor.. As the boat begins to burn, the only thing on his mind was he certainly did'nt want to add a house fire to the growing list of bad luck. He managed to start the truck the boat was still trailered to, and at least pull a safe distance away. All he could do is watch his boat burn.
I laughed so hard I cried.
Submitted on 10/28/2002
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Anonymous
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