OK. Personally, except for posting here, the thing I've been repeatedly reminded of was when we where out at the annual company sailing event and I "missplaced" the plexi-glass door to the cabin of our big ass sailboat.
The event is legendary for the "grill, sauna and binge drinking eavning" and I since I had to go for "number two" I jumped over to my boat, detached the detachable door, sat it down on the spray-hood and watched it slide across the boat down in the water. Thing is the nigts are cold as hell at that time of the year and it was raining heavilly so I wasn't really that popular.
To make it even worse, what to me looked like a cheapo piece of plastics turned out to be a custom made, race grade door and the owner of the boat who had rented it to us later refused to repay the $5000 safety deposit and demanded an exact replacement and it took my boss and a couple of lawyers almost two years (!)to settle the dispute (and probably cost a lot more than 5000).
Just to compensate for everyone on my boat almost freezing to death the nigt before, the next eavening of binge drinking me and my workmate figured we should at least try to fix the problem with the septic tank on the boat before going to bed. Big mistake. On the other hand the missing door came in handy because I can ensure you that an overfilled septic tank that backfire and spray paint the toilet walls with gallons worth of highly preassurized fecies does not smell like roses.
Let's just say that apart from the smell, it ain't really that fun to get it on you either, since you now have nowhere to wash yourself up but in the sea, which is ~40F and nowhere to get warm after washing up...
Finally, day three we leave the secluded life of sail-racing int the archipelago for a night at Sandhamn, a legendary island with a nice restaurant, great nightlife and a mindboggling concentration of *****ebags. Now, since we're around other drunk people someone comes up with the brilliant idea to remove and hide the (detachable) bow-ladder to keep "the other drunk people" from boarding the boat and use it as a party platform too easily. Naturally when we get back to the boat, the first guy -in his slightly hazy condition- drops the ladder into the sea and we can't get aboard our now so carefully sanatized boat...luckilly for us, one of the girls managed to sweet-talk the coastguard stationed on the island to help us board the boat from the stern using their RIB
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