Nah... I would've bitch slapped him for not turning the engines off .......
I mean how old a 65 are you talking here... too senile to operate a vessel,
to weak to walk?

My old man is 30 years older than that... and if 65... it would make this
dude Donal referred to only 17 years older than me.

Who's saying he was older than his wife... who can say she was 60. Maybe she
looked 60 but was only 50. Maybe her husband was only 4 years older than
me... would that make it OKAY?

He obviously couldn't give a hoot about his wife!!

CM




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I would have bitch slapped the owner of the boat at the first sign of
incompetence...

Donal already satated that the woman was in her 60's...chances are the man
was probably even older, has lost his reaction time, and possibly is already
suffering from dementia. Bitch-slapping people does nothing to improve a
situation, but does tend to inflame others, especially when they perceive
that the elderly are being abused (hint-hint....taking a walk in your own
shoes). I am not defending the man's actions or lack thereof, but different
people react in diffrent ways and he, too, could have been suffering from
shock or disbelief. The thankful part is that there was someone there to
act, there was someone there, to assist the old man, and that no lasting
damage seems to have occurred.

Shock is a weird thing. People act totally out of character when it
strikes. Some people are lucky and have had training to react
immediately...if a person has never been in a bad or dangerous situation,
they may not even realize how bad things really are, even staring at it
right in the face. It's wasy to condemn people. It is much harder to
understand them. It is always better to at least try to understand than to
condemn. (unless of course, you're talking about a few jaded individuals
that we all know...)

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