Peter Malcolm Jardine
02-13-2006, 06:48 PM
Step 1:
We admitted we were powerless over Wooden Boats, and that our bank accounts were overdrawn.
Step 2:
Came to believe that if we mortgaged the house for a charter business, We'd be millionaires.
Step 3:
Made a decision to turn our entire focus of our lives to restoring an old rotten boat.
Step 4:
Made a searching and fearless survey of the boat (after the purchase) and discovered we were in up to our neck.
Step 5:
Admitted to ourselves, our friends, and most importantly our wives, the exact nature of our wooden boat situation.
Step 6:
Were entirely ready to buy all the tools necessary to fix the #$%^& thing.
Step 7:
Humbly asked our wives if we could enrol in a boat building class.
Step 8:
Made a list of all the equipment, hardware, materials and time required for the restoration and promptly had a minor stroke.
Step 9:
Made direct payments to the bank whenever possible, except when it would injure the restoration of the boat, which cost at least three times what we thought.
Step 10:
Continued to work furiously to get the boat in the water, and as a result, occasionally did things wrong, especially when dealing with wood that cost more per pound than most rare metals.
Step 11:
Sought through prayer and meditation to improve our conscious contact with God, as we understood him, knowing only he could save this project on certain days before it killed us.
Step 12:
Having had a serious lapse in sanity as a result of the whole affair, We continually lure other people into buying old boats, so that we can stroke our beards and appear wise and skilled, instead of covered in various paints and glues that won't come off skin and looking like a madman.
We admitted we were powerless over Wooden Boats, and that our bank accounts were overdrawn.
Step 2:
Came to believe that if we mortgaged the house for a charter business, We'd be millionaires.
Step 3:
Made a decision to turn our entire focus of our lives to restoring an old rotten boat.
Step 4:
Made a searching and fearless survey of the boat (after the purchase) and discovered we were in up to our neck.
Step 5:
Admitted to ourselves, our friends, and most importantly our wives, the exact nature of our wooden boat situation.
Step 6:
Were entirely ready to buy all the tools necessary to fix the #$%^& thing.
Step 7:
Humbly asked our wives if we could enrol in a boat building class.
Step 8:
Made a list of all the equipment, hardware, materials and time required for the restoration and promptly had a minor stroke.
Step 9:
Made direct payments to the bank whenever possible, except when it would injure the restoration of the boat, which cost at least three times what we thought.
Step 10:
Continued to work furiously to get the boat in the water, and as a result, occasionally did things wrong, especially when dealing with wood that cost more per pound than most rare metals.
Step 11:
Sought through prayer and meditation to improve our conscious contact with God, as we understood him, knowing only he could save this project on certain days before it killed us.
Step 12:
Having had a serious lapse in sanity as a result of the whole affair, We continually lure other people into buying old boats, so that we can stroke our beards and appear wise and skilled, instead of covered in various paints and glues that won't come off skin and looking like a madman.