SS MAYFLOAT
Admiral
- Joined
- May 17, 2001
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Re: Sticky Situation
I've got emails sent to the park and marina. It is now a waiting game to see if they call me direct or email me back.
As for children services, I'm going to go ahead and give them a call. His excessive drinking with his girls around is the only thing that I have witnessed. He has the girls wear their life vests while on the dock, they are always clean, fed at the right times, he never raises his voice to them, he does supervise them, and never leaves them by themselves. The girls are not brats, they play, never loud, they listen to adults, and they always ask instead of demanding. It is his drinking that night that my wife and I saw.
On the other hand, there is a family at the other end of the dock that doesn't drink and has some kids the same age. These kids run up and down the dock, screaming/crying, talks back, jumps on peoples boats, and basically out of control. One incident that they caused was when they went around and untied some of the boats at the dock!.
This is why I am a bit confused on calling children services. Maybe I should report them as well. I just hate to open a can worms on the dock. Many of us oldtimers/emptynesters like our freedom to sit on our deck and drink a couple of cold ones. When the authorities get involved, that may end the many years of having the benefit of drinking on our dock as it is prohibited by the park rules. I'm afraid that this can backfire in my face and mark me as a big snitch on the dock. Its sure is nice to have people at the dock help retrieve your boat when your returning from the lake. Doing it yourself when the wind is blowing, tight quarters to operate, plus the expensive boats next to you can make it rough doing it alone. I have seen this happen and I don't want to be the outcast on the dock.
Keep in mind, my main complaint is his loud music. Hopefully things will have changed by this coming weekend. My wife won't be there, so I can get a bit more vocal on my thoughts about his behavior (with my video running
)
As for the fish guts, I'm going to let him know that if I see him doing that again, I will report him as I don't like to swim in water that has fish remains in it. It could be that Mr. Obnoxious is not aware that it is against the law. I think a fair warning first is at hand.
I know if I'm ignorant to a law, I would want someone to tell me first instead of getting me busted for it. I'm sure many of you would want the same treatment......I'll post more once I get some feed back from the emails......Thanks......SS
I've got emails sent to the park and marina. It is now a waiting game to see if they call me direct or email me back.
As for children services, I'm going to go ahead and give them a call. His excessive drinking with his girls around is the only thing that I have witnessed. He has the girls wear their life vests while on the dock, they are always clean, fed at the right times, he never raises his voice to them, he does supervise them, and never leaves them by themselves. The girls are not brats, they play, never loud, they listen to adults, and they always ask instead of demanding. It is his drinking that night that my wife and I saw.
On the other hand, there is a family at the other end of the dock that doesn't drink and has some kids the same age. These kids run up and down the dock, screaming/crying, talks back, jumps on peoples boats, and basically out of control. One incident that they caused was when they went around and untied some of the boats at the dock!.
This is why I am a bit confused on calling children services. Maybe I should report them as well. I just hate to open a can worms on the dock. Many of us oldtimers/emptynesters like our freedom to sit on our deck and drink a couple of cold ones. When the authorities get involved, that may end the many years of having the benefit of drinking on our dock as it is prohibited by the park rules. I'm afraid that this can backfire in my face and mark me as a big snitch on the dock. Its sure is nice to have people at the dock help retrieve your boat when your returning from the lake. Doing it yourself when the wind is blowing, tight quarters to operate, plus the expensive boats next to you can make it rough doing it alone. I have seen this happen and I don't want to be the outcast on the dock.
Keep in mind, my main complaint is his loud music. Hopefully things will have changed by this coming weekend. My wife won't be there, so I can get a bit more vocal on my thoughts about his behavior (with my video running
)As for the fish guts, I'm going to let him know that if I see him doing that again, I will report him as I don't like to swim in water that has fish remains in it. It could be that Mr. Obnoxious is not aware that it is against the law. I think a fair warning first is at hand.
I know if I'm ignorant to a law, I would want someone to tell me first instead of getting me busted for it. I'm sure many of you would want the same treatment......I'll post more once I get some feed back from the emails......Thanks......SS
