Is this not the day the lake officially closes to Weekend Wallys? :D
I was trying to launch last night at Lake Allatoona and the ramp was backed up far more than usual..... I got out, put the plugs in, and prepped the boat for launch. Still no movement on the ramp.
I walked down to see what was going on..... 2 ramps had boats sideways on the trailers trying to load and another was empty save the woman on a cell phone trying to back a F-350 with a 26' trailer down the ramp. She had no clue what she was doing. Many observers sitting around the ramp made the comment how "nuts" this was.
I asked her if she could back the trailer and she said no....... I told her I would back it in for her and promptly did so with many cheers from the onlooking crowd.....
What kind of idiot sends an inexperienced driver to back in a rig with that kind of crowd on the ramp?
After launching I move to the dock to tie off some clueless Wally cuts me off trying to get to the dock, then as he is about to crash into the dock., slams his boat in reverse, almost tearing my trolling motor off the front of my boat..... It was so busy and crowded that my GF was afraid to try to maneuver through with the truck and trailer and asked me to "PLEASE PARK FOR ME".
Now this may not be the best idea but I always just bungee the boat to a cleat for short term dockage......Never a bad deal until today....Another Wally comes plowing into the dock in a liquor induced coma, grabs my bungeed boat, pushes it away from the dock, breaks the bungee, sends it boomeranging through the crowd, and almost knocking my girlfriend in the water....
I don't normally say this, but I am longing for some 40 degree days on the lake! :D
