The Good, The Bad, and The Ugly
Well...this short story is about three things that happened to me on my most recent boating trip. The trip took place yesterday, Sunday, at the lake. The Good Thing: Well...it was pretty nice having a weekend away from my brother, sometimes he can be so annoying, that you just can't stand him. But anyways, on the lake it was just my dad, Zack, Grant, and me. (Zack and Grant are my step-brothers) The good part probably had to be some of the knee boarding we were doing. We just got the boat on the spring break, so we havn't bought a wakeboard yet. Well I was getting pretty good on the kneeboard and with the perfect move from my dad at control of the boat, i flew across the wake, became airborne, and made it all the way to the other side of the wake...I Cleared the Wake...i was so proud of myself...But i did wipe out like 3 seconds later. The Bad Thing: Zack and I took the boat out on out own for about 5 minutes while my dad was doing something on shore. I drove first and got the boat up to about 55 mph. Then Zack drove back. While we were heading back, i stuck my head above the windsheild to feel the wind,(I had my sunglasses on) and all of a sudden, a bug splattered all over the right lens of my sunglasses. It scared me at first but then i wiped it off and we laughed at it in the end. The Ugly Thing: This is funny and ugly...We were finishing the final run before we had to head back to the ramp to head home and Zack wanted to do one more run on the innertube. Zack has an unusual style of riding the innertube, he holds on with his hands but is hanging off the innertube at about the bellybutton. I usually sit with my butt in the tube and looking away from the boat.(So i can't see the bumps coming) Anyways...you will need to use your imagination to vision this in your head. Picture a skinny 14 year-old kid that only weighs about 100 pounds hanging half way off the innertube. Everytime he would hit a bump, his legs would fly into the air and he would look like superman for a split second. Now here is the ugly part, Zack hits a bump and flys into the air, you see his legs fly above his head, he lands and then almost immediatly hits another bump, but this time when his legs flew above his head, his bathingsuit was missing. When he landed, he wiped out right away and when we went to pick him up...you could see his hands underwater covering up his pocessions. I was laughing so hard, i fell to the floor of the boat. He jumped back onto the tube (naked might i remind you) and he went for a ride while we tried to find his swimsuit. It took us about five minutes before we found his swimsuit floating in the middle of the lake. Just another memory that i will probably never forget.
Michael
Michael