Midnight fiasco.....

Last night we went night swimming for the first time and had a total blast.


Floozie2 and her Lake Farmer tied up their boat with ours and we all floated around on rafts and noodles .


The moon was almost full so it wasn't too black and scary out there.


I had always been afraid to get in the lake at night dues to what horrors may be waiting to get on me,like snakes, alligators, sea monsters, bugs. LOL


But it was really fun. We didn't even head out there until it was nearly dark. So by the time we left it was much later than I thought.


Floozie2 and L.F. left and headed home. I thought we were going to do the same. But my spouse decided to rip around the lake driving fast and crazy like a teenage boy .


Then we head home. Here's where the fiasco comes in.


He had left the lift up. Which means someone must get out and lower it before we can dock.
So he pulls up on the outside edge ,and is supposed to tie up and idle in neutral while he lowers the lift. Well he goes to jump out onto the dock and blammo! falls in the lake.



The boat is NOT in neutral it is still going forward! ACK!

I get over there and try to throw it in reverse before we hit the boardwalk. The gears will not change.The boat keeps going forward. I turn off the motor, we go forward until the boardwalk stops us. The boat is now wedged in the tiny space between the end of the dock and the boardwalk.



My husband manages to get himself out of the lake and tells me to move the boat.



"Are you crazy? I can't maneuver this thing out of here."



Naturally we have an audience for this whole thing. People are gathered on their balcony's watching us. (probably laughing their asses off)


Nosey comes down to help us and brings a big flashlight.



My spouse gets in and tries to move the boat but the gears will not change. Upon further inspection (with the huge flashlight) it seems that when he was ripping around like a teenage boy, one of the ropes had flown out the back of the boat and was all wrapped around the motor/propeller (something)



That was why the gear was stuck in forward.Noseys spouse G5 comes down to help . They all finally manage to pull the boat manually ,part way onto the lift and cut the rope out of everything.



I was sitting there at the time ,pretty convinced that my finger was broken. This morning it seems like it was just a very painful ,stinging broken vein.



Once the rope was out ,my soaking wet husband was able to drive it up onto the lift and all was well.


Hope all you renters enjoyed the midnight show!


I will post the pictures when Noesy sends them to me.


Later peeps!