Is There a Caste System in Sailing?

[Teknav]

Thanks Tropics! I am flattered!

Mauritz

[Rav]

Originally Posted by s/v Beth

I would buy him his beverage of choice ... if I met him in person.

I have a long memory for quotes like that!

I hope to run in to you somewhere where the bar is open.

I'll buy the second if you'll buy the third!

[Capt Phil]

This thread takes me back to the 60's on the west coast of Canada. We had a Senator by the name of Gordon Gibson Sr who was quite a boater around Vancouver but he had a hugh affinity for Hawaii, so much so he bought a hotel. He took great delight in puttering around the garden of his hotel in a daggy old pair of shorts, sandals and a worn shirt. Many guests came up to him to ask directions to restaurants, the pool area or the nearest bar and several treated him with some disdain. In the evening he could be found in his evening attire or tux and these same guests would look at him wierdly knowing they recognized him but not putting the whole thing together. He used to take great delight in engaging these folks in conversation and finally when the penny dropped in their mind where they had met him, they were usually taken completely aback. How he loved to tell those stories. Very 'down to earth' gentleman who always had time for a hello and a kind word for those not as fortunate as he. In those days I was rail meat for one his friends who was into racing big time. Phil

[Jammer Six]

We were so poor we couldn't afford any water for the swimming pool, so we swam in it empty.

[Dave0549jv]

Originally Posted by Jammer Six

We were so poor we couldn't afford any water for the swimming pool, so we swam in it empty.

An empty swimming pool?! You were lucky! When I were a lad, we all wished we had an empty swimming pool. What we wouldn't have given for an EMPTY SWIMMING POOL!

All we had to swim in were shallow puddles filled with excrement!

[carstenb]

Hell, we were so poor we had to walk the 20 miles to school in knee deep snow with only newspapers wrapped around our feet, we couldn't afford shoes.

And that was in the summer! Ya shoulda seen the winters!

[s/v Beth]

Originally Posted by Rav

I have a long memory for quotes like that!

I hope to run in to you somewhere where the bar is open.

I'll buy the second if you'll buy the third!

If I ever get Beth to the UK I will look you up.

[boatsail]

Originally Posted by Jammer Six

We were so poor we couldn't afford any water for the swimming pool, so we swam in it empty.

feet!

You had feet!

[salticrak]

We were so poor we stole the sugar out of other peoples coffee.

[skipmac]

When I first started cruising I was so poor I couldn't even pay attention.

[David_Old_Jersey]

Originally Posted by carstenb

Hell, we were so poor we had to walk the 20 miles to school in knee deep snow with only newspapers wrapped around our feet, we couldn't afford shoes.

And that was in the summer! Ya shoulda seen the winters!

20 miles in the snow? you were lucky, for us it was 50 miles - and uphill BOTH ways...........

[Travelnik]

We were so poor that we had to take jobs as zombies!

The dying and coming back part wasn't so bad, but they dropped us off in Washington, DC, and there wasn't a single damn brain to eat!

[salticrak]

Originally Posted by Travelnik

We were so poor that we had to take jobs as zombies!

The dying and coming back part wasn't so bad, but they dropped us off in Washington, DC, and there wasn't a single damn brain to eat!

very good.

[Jammer Six]

We were so poor we ate cereal with forks, so everyone could have some milk.

[salticrak]

We were so poor our mamma made our underpants out of hessian sacks.