Looking for THAT letter......
 

Can't remember where I saw it, but does anybody have a copy of that letter boaters post about the boating season is short, and my investment is large, blah, blah, blah...... so please don't invite me to your summer event...... etc

Thank you in advance.

If one of my friends sent me a letter like that is throw dog*$&+ all over his stupid boat.

If one of my friends sent me that, I'd probably skip my own event and go boating with him :drink:

When people ask me to go to a wedding I usually say I'll just catch your next one. :whistle:

You must not have kids. T-Ball, soccer, lacrosse, birthday parties.........never ends. I paid my dues, now my time is mostly mine.

Birthday parties are never ending, especially when your kids are 3&5 and everyone in the class is invited to every birthday party...... 25 kids in each of my kids classes not to even mention all of our friends outside of school and there is just about 1 a week......

bro don't even get me started. My wife has a large family and kiddos are grandbabies 19 and 20 for her parents. EVERY FREAKING WEEKEND!!!!

I never understood why my parents wouldn't let me play baseball as a kid, but I played ice hockey..... now my son has the same rule. No summer sports lol. Way better experience water skiing and hanging out with my dad than picking my nose in right field. Only way we're showing up to a birthday party or something in the summer is if it's raining.

My sister was marrying a guy that I thought was a loser. She scheduled the wedding on the west coast of Florida at some place that would give her a free hotel room since every single guest was coming from the other side of Florida and would obviously need to stay overnight. This was a beach wedding, very informal and they simply picked a place on a map for a destination. It happened to be the Jacksonville Poker Run weekend.........I made the poker run, missed the wedding. Marriage lasted about 4 1/2 years.

Florida is huge for baseball due to year round play. There is a huge benefit to baseball for some kids like my neighbor......drafted out of high school by MLB!

I just tell people that I only go to weddings on Wednesdays in February so plan accordingly.

Padraig

I was talking to the fiancee about the wedding date when we were planning it. It was very easy because she already knew it wasn't going to be in the summer. Now we picked late September which is right around the time I winterize my boat. So I figured just pull it a week earlier and oh well. She knew this because her one friend had a wedding last July on a Saturday at 3pm. Needless to say she found out how our kids will act when they get upset.

When I got the invitation to BLee's wedding I called him within 5 seconds with two questions:

She actually said yes?!?!?!
Do you realize this is Havasu weekend?!?!?

LOL.

He's my boy so I went to the wedding.

Marriage is about compromises....
I told my wife that for each boating day she accompanies me in April, I will accompany her to one event of her choosing during the summer. Had the boat out once this spring, she didn't go ("too windy"), I'm home free as of Monday!

My company has its annual picnic the first Saturday of august every summer. I am pretty high up the food chain so not attending isn't really an option. It is at a beautiful state park right at the mouth of long island sound about 2 miles from my boat / lift. Views of long island , race rock and fishers island from the beach there. Every time one of my go fast brothren goes by headed to block or long island , or some place down the sound, some of my guys who know me well just laugh and hold up a beer knowing I would really rather be doing that than eating lobster at the picnic. Its always a good time tho. Sacrifices.

Me and my old lady planned her pregnancy around the LOTO shootout, so she would only be 3 or 4 months along and i wouldn't have to miss it, but also wouldn't interfere with the following year shootout. Shes putting the new job on hold till summer is over so we don't have to miss any big runs due to her not having any vacation, and now my boss invited me to his bachelor party at the lake with all his ***gy friends in June, buuuuutttt that just so happens to be the Support the Troops poker run, so guess who is bringing their boat to the lake by myself and doing another run and skipping the bachelor party??? Summer is too short and i put in enough time to everyone else to let these people phuck with my boating season anymore :)

We have one wedding in May to attend and that's it. Last year (of course boat was in shop for 9 weeks) we went to several. I'm stoked about this season and I've saved the letter in my file to use if the need should arise. I'm not kidding.:party-smiley-048:

Wife and I just got married in front of the judge and eloped - 28 years ago. No Kids and we can just skip all weddings as Nobody had to go to ours!!
Lake house just about every weekend. Unless that Work thing gets in the way.

One of the best boating areas anywhere IMO.

Harkness memorial park in Waterford Indy if you've ever heard of it.

Great area although I'm not familiar with Harkness specifically. My boating was done out of Norwalk and would run up the Sound through the gut then bomb around the east end in general. Overall, LIS is the balls.

I'm in a wedding on Memorial Day Weekend. :angry-smiley-038:

nooooooo!

You must have been bad in a previous life.

Padraig

Weddings in general regardless if they over ride boating or not are awful.

I just hate wasting my time/money on weddings that you know are going to fail.......I was the best man at one when my buddy admitted he had a girlfriend on the side (hotter than wife to be)......awkward part: this conversation was happening while on the altar watching the wife (to be) walk down the isle! I told him to bail, enjoy the party. He went through with it, still working on the divorce now. I felt like a priest up there hearing a confession!

The letter is pretty funny.... But it's tough if you have kids that are involved sports, and other activities, (High school orchestra) which I ALWAYS go and support my kids...BUT the many boating benefits to living in FL is we get to boat year round in some of the best boating waterways in the world, (IMHO).....

Yea, kids are 16 and 18 now so not too much to going on with them in the summer. And by the way, it's 54 today with a low in the mid 40's......... Us midwesterners only have a good 5 months! :mad:

My own kids birthday is 5/29 and we have never had a bday party memorial weekend. It pisses me off when people do that so no way i could do it.