Ramp Tales.....(an oldie of mine)...

[Zeus2013]

While I have not noiced any real drama at my dock, I did have drama parking once. We launch at a park that has football, baseball, soccer fields. In the spring and summer they are packed. If there are no spots, public safety lets us park on any grass area out of the way. One morning we head to the park and it is packed. They have designated spots for cars with trailers and marked them with cones. So I drive through the lot and find a spot with a cone. I get out, move the cones and start to pull in. As I am pulling in, some A-Hole on the other drive isle pass my spot and starts to back in. I am 3/4's of the way in and waiting to see that he will do. He is looking at me in his mirror, so i jump out and say this is boat trailer parking only. He says he is a coach and needs to park, I say this is reserved parking per the sign. He says I don't give a sh** about your boat, I need to park. So I say have a nice day, get back in the truck, pull in as far as I could and get out and start to walk away. So as I wak away I see people moving cones so they can park their cars. I wave over the park security and advise him of what is going on and he starts ticketing people.

So as I have a stressful week at work, I try to relax and reboot over the weekend. While this gus was talking, I was like a duck on water. on the outside (above the water) i was cool calm and collected, but underneath I was going mad (like a ducks feet). I came so close to coming undone and basically telling him off after his wonderful expression of my boat. But the better of me came out...Serenity now.....