I was watching the “Best Commercials Ever” show the other day. Such memories. I had forgotten all about the two guys in separate limos, one asked the other through rolled down window, “Do you have any Grey Poupon?” It reminded me of the time…
…My former husband and I were live-aboard boaters, cruising the US coast and Bahamas. We were anchored in Inner Baltimore Harbor on a hot, hot Memorial Day morning. Baltimore is a nice little harbor but nearly 300 years of active marine use, combined with oozy, light Chesapeake mud, made for a very tenuous holding ground. We’d spent hours sweating and setting the anchor just right amid the crowd. There was no breeze and the no-see-ums were eating us up. Safety, first, though. We finally got situated the way we wanted, appropriately distant from other boats and holding solidly. We went ashore to explore. I looked back one last time. “Who’s that on our boat!?” A drunk houseboat driver had run over our anchor line and his prop was now snarled. He’d dislodged the anchor and now our two boats were drifting. He had boarded our boat to try and untangle. It took us many hours to get things right, which included negotiating with an angry drunk, walking a long way to the boat store in 100 degree heat to buy another anchor line, and going through the re-anchoring process all over again, made harder since the harbor was more crowded now.
The harbor was afloat with many vessels, yachts, large and small power boats, jetskis, and those double seater paddle boats you can rent. It was festive, but busy. Finally we settled down with an ice tea under the sunshade. We breathed out and looked at each other, ready to declare this the most difficult and annoying anchorage ever. Then, THUNK. Jangled by our hard day, we scrambled to the bow where the noise came from. Looking over the railing we saw a rental paddleboat with two teenage boys stuck fast between the bow and our just re-set anchor line. Innocently, they looked up at us and we looked back down at them. For a moment there was complete silence and held breaths. They broke the silence first, laughing, “Do you have any Grey Poupon?”
My husband didn’t think that was funny. But I did.
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Glad you are back up and running
thank you! Blogger has a New Blogger software and they are transitioning away from Old Blogger, of which this blog is a part. All of Old Blogger was down yesterday for maintenance, but for longer than they thought. I'm glad to be up and running again, too, and I will make sure to back up my writing before that happens again. It's always iffy when a company tries out new software.
I remember you telling this story and I laughed and laughed. I think it was Mike's xpl!&!! response that made me laugh the hardest.
Hi Louie B! Yes, his reaction was also just as funny, I'd never seen him that mad! Everyone has their limits I guess!
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