Thanks, but I find that I can't utter "Tosser" with enough indignance to
suit my mental state without adding and adjective or two. :-)
Chuck Norcutt
Chris Barker wrote:
> There's a common name for people like that over here, Chuck, whether
> on the road or the water: Tossers. This has to be uttered with a
> fair degree of feeling to get it off your chest.
>
> I'm glad that this Tosser missed you.
>
> Chris
>
> On 3 Aug 2007, at 12:47, Chuck Norcutt wrote:
>
>> Yes, socked in it was. We were fishing for stripers in the fog
>> Wednesday morning when we were nearly run over by a boat of about 30
>> foot length running at a high rate of speed. Only our fog horn
>> blasting
>> away continuously for an extended period of time (we could hear him
>> coming and coming fast a long ways away) finally turned him away
>> when he
>> was only about 50 feet away from us. He disappeared back into the fog
>> as quickly as he had appeared but was visible long enough to determine
>> that he had no radar. An absolute idiot. The captain of our little
>> charter boat commented that he would never run at that speed in fog
>> even
>> with radar. He also said that was the closest he's ever come to a
>> collision. I can still see the bow of that boat emerging from the fog
>> pointed right at me.
>
>
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