A4 - Friday, October 26, 1984 - North Shure News

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| strictly personal

by Bob Hunter

Brainless leaders

Nk OF THE GREAT PERILS facing the
world - it’s been a problem all along, I’m

is the fact that there are an awful lot

of people with terrific leadership abilities, but no

brains.

| didn’t always realize this
was the problem it aw until
one day last summer when a
sorbof relative, the live in
boytriend of a sister-in-law,
pave me a tabulous example
of thus process in action

He'd just bought a boat
Birst of all, he'd done wt all
wrong. tt was old It was
wooden Stop there It had
been propped up somewhere
on two-by fours for God
Knows how long And this
chap hadn't got it surveyed

His investment wasn't all
thal greatin terms of money
At least, |] hope not. And ut
wouldn't have mattered to
me at all except that he stop
ped by my place, brand new
old wooden boat in tow, and
asked to borrow the kevs to
the club where my own old
wooden boal was tied up.

The rules of the club are
plain No lending keys No
use of the dock by non
members However, Im a
softie and was preoccupied
with something else at the

backed his truck down the
ramp with the boat on the
trailer. And backed his truck.
And backed his truck And
kept on backing his truck
The tide was Out, vou see
Way oul And it gets pretty
mucky out there af the very
edge of the tide zone Hus
truck got stuck, naturally
And of course the tide was
Starting to come back in
So the neat thing | know,
I'm getting this emergency
phone call at home. Could |
grab omy own truck oaim-
mediately and come
there and pull him out”
The yarn gets weirder
Prom the moment fF got there
| could see what had happen
ed and | knew ino my night
mind that Vd be crary to
back my own truck out on
that sogyey tidetlat But an
astonishing thing happened
The chap who had gatten
himself ante this mess) had
such a wondertul, gunp ho,
upbeat attitude that he seem
ed totally in control of the
Sttuation He had three other

down

and contidence and blisstul
certainty

To make a paintul ex-
penence bearable in the tell-
ing, 'lboutat short. Naturally
my truck got stuck oo

You can imagine the mood

I was in at this juncture. The
worst part was knowing thal
I'd fallen for at. Don't toHow
leaders and watch the park-
ing meters! The oldest good
advice in the universe! When
was | going to learn?

Anyway, with a great deal
of splishtng and shshing and
grunting and heaving and
becoming utterly filthy with
stinking intertidal goop, we
got my truck out. Belatedly, |
thought of calling BCAA.

There was a happy ending.
Sort of. The tow truck got
him out before the de had a
chance to eat his own truck
alive. Have you ever seen a
car or truck after even a few
hours in the saltchuck? They
dissolve quickly

But the boat, well, the boat
sank about as tast as the tide
came up Caulking was shot,
as you might expect Planks
had shrunk

There's a moral here, oh
ves Watch out for those
vung ho guys who know ex-
actlh, what they're doing.
Thesv're a menace to society

A rotten day
is a great day
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