The Drowning Moron

[dave_littler]

A few years ago, I was living with a colossal douchebag named Aaron. He and I eventually grew sick and tired of one another (because this is the function of a room-mate), and he moved away to become a harbour hobo.

A harbour hobo is someone who lives in a boat and floats that boat just far enough off-shore that they're in, shall we say, communal

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[hentaikid]

I would call it "The Drowning Moron". I would then have a wooden masthead carved in the image of a drowning man, flailing about in the water, eyes wild and unfocused, and I would have it affixed to the front of my boat in such a way that the water line would be right around the mouth of the masthead, so that as my boat bobbed gently in the water, he would periodically surface and submerge in the water,

haha, good one.

[damiennightbane]

At least this moron had the grace to get the fuck out and live in his filth by himself. He's at least a better human being than your current room-mate.

[dave_littler]

Yeah, that's true enough. As much as I resented Aaron for the amount of filth his disgusting cat generated and which he would take weeks if not months to clean up (the seemingly preternatural stench emanating from the litter box in particular was fairly legendary), at least he mostly kept to himself and never stole my stuff. Living with Aaron versus living with Vince is a little like the difference between living with silverfish versus living with rats.

[chezmax]

Awesome.

So, how did he, uh, get to work if he just floated out? (Or otherwise make money to pay for the boat?)

[dave_littler]

Well, on the long term, it appears the answer basically is that he didn't. I suspect on the short term he had a rowboat or something which got him to and from shore. I understand that's the standard practice of the harbour hobo.

[nerdfury]

This question will bug me until I can think of a witty boat name to battle yours on the witty field of death.

The first thing that springs to mind is the name "Jesus II" with the tag-line underneath "Beats walking, don't it?"

Burrump-pish! in three... two... one..