BINGO!:drink:

Having to beat friends to the gas attendent got old, our new proceedure has the boat filled and stocked before anyone arrives and we just don't stop at a gas dock, I fill it later when alone. Now I gotta lock the cabin so $$ don't accidentally fall out of pockets.

Thanks Birdog... You know you're welcome with us anytime too. Well after we get engines back in again... Unless you want a ride on the Whaler? :D

I thought it was Ass, Gas or Grass......

I live on the beach and for lack of a better word, most of my friends are beach bums which means their typically broke. But for some reason it works out well for me not that i expect it. I supply a gassed boat, and they supply the rest. Sometimes i even get a hand cleaning it up afterward. These are not my rules, i think i just have some decent friends.

I would never think of asking for fuel, I would be burning it that day anyhow I just enjoy there company, we just tell them we are headed to a beach bring what you like to eat and drink, plus we will have extra. But like everone says your taking people you want to spend time with. At dinner a couple of dollars either way is not a big deal, most make more than me anyway:drink:

thats actually a pretty big one. I would love to have a hand cleaning the boat after a couple days of use. Its not hard to kill a whole day doing a complete inside and out cleanup after a long weekend. I would sooner take that over gas money any day :D

But then, as so many gracious people in this thread have pointed out, you can always kindly decline.

Not religious or particularly spiritual, but I firmly believe that whatever time you spend showing people a great experience on the water is time off your sentence in hell.

And a few of us could use that.

I better start invite'in more people . . . . lots more people :D

Instead of gas I'll take some donations of time for friends to babysit my kids so I can go f$cking boating....:angry-smiley-038:

It works out pretty well in my opnion...... You donate 10-12 hrs of your time on a Saturday afternoon, change crappy diapers, feed the kids, and deal with their b1tching and moaning while my wife and I go out boating for the day and get hammered!:eek:

I dunno, seems like a good deal to me!:drink:
I'm free this weekend so who's in?:party-smiley-004: