BarryBobPosthole
04-10-2014, 10:20 PM
This has been a very challenging week from a work perspective. The collective intellectual output of the people I work for could be measured in picoamperes and my general attitude could be measured in nanofuckits. So its a perfect storm and a little catalyst added. The catalyst is the prime example of what happens when you put all of these mental midgets together in a room for a week in a foreign country where they HAVE to talk to each other because Lord knows THAT would be uncomfortable if they actually talked to the people that were from there. Anyway, this brain trust never fails to come up with a whole list of stuff that verges on being funny in a Dilberty sort of way. Only its not because it consumes your days and weeks with 'readouts' and 'peeling back onions' and teeing shit up. And it pisses me off. So that's just the table setter. That's what my week ahs been like.
So Birddog called yesterday and I about jumped out of my chair when he suggested we go fishing tomorrow afternoon. got that calendar cleared and went and got the boat this afternoon after work. the problem came when I was backing the boat into the slot I have for it in the drive way. I tried twice before I just gave up and pulled out and turned around to back it in from the other direction and it STILL took two tries to do it.
I am a master trailer backer. I could thread a needle with a trailer and I've been backing shit up since I was old enough to drive a tractor and that was about 12. But for some reason I was just snakebit. This was the first time I'd backed my boat with this truck but hell that shouldn't have made one bit of difference. The one thing I can have moral superiority over probably 75% of the driving world is gone. POOF! Now I'm in the same class with Bucky. He can't back a trailer and worse yet, he can't even SPOT someone backing a trailer. I have witnesses to that. That probably took two years off of Tee Dub's lfe right there. He was PISSED. Basically when you spot someone backing a boat up, all you have to do is stand there like a big white piece of PVC so he knows where NOT to back the boat to. Bucky put on a performance.
Anyway, my confidence is shaken. Something else I've lost to advancing age.
BKB
So Birddog called yesterday and I about jumped out of my chair when he suggested we go fishing tomorrow afternoon. got that calendar cleared and went and got the boat this afternoon after work. the problem came when I was backing the boat into the slot I have for it in the drive way. I tried twice before I just gave up and pulled out and turned around to back it in from the other direction and it STILL took two tries to do it.
I am a master trailer backer. I could thread a needle with a trailer and I've been backing shit up since I was old enough to drive a tractor and that was about 12. But for some reason I was just snakebit. This was the first time I'd backed my boat with this truck but hell that shouldn't have made one bit of difference. The one thing I can have moral superiority over probably 75% of the driving world is gone. POOF! Now I'm in the same class with Bucky. He can't back a trailer and worse yet, he can't even SPOT someone backing a trailer. I have witnesses to that. That probably took two years off of Tee Dub's lfe right there. He was PISSED. Basically when you spot someone backing a boat up, all you have to do is stand there like a big white piece of PVC so he knows where NOT to back the boat to. Bucky put on a performance.
Anyway, my confidence is shaken. Something else I've lost to advancing age.
BKB