Well the latest in the Chris' adventures in boating series....
When last we saw our hereo (that's me) he had had an excellent day on the water....little did he know that a short two weeks later tragedy (ok that's exaggerating to make my point) would strike again.
The idea was to pick up the boat on Friday afternoon get up early saturday morning to do some maintenance and have her ready for a full day on the lake on Sunday. So Friday morning I wake up to a flat tire on the truck...
Ok no problem I bought the warranty, take the truck in and they tell me it's going to take 3 hours and give a rental car. it ends up taking all day...I show up at 5:00PM and find out that they lost the key to my truck, and haven't touched it. I quickly produce my spare key and they tell me it's going to be another hour, turns out two tires have damage...they are apologetic and offer to make a new key, but that'll take another hour and since we are leaving our other car for service why not just do it tomorrow when we return to pick up the wife's car, ok.
Saturday morning I go a get my boat drag her home and start working...more work that I thought (isn't this always the case?) VHF radio is completely dead..pops fuse as soon as battery switch is turned on. Bench seat is missing hardware so I am am going to have to get creative,
long trip to Home depot and I get home with the parts to fix seat. But dealership calls, going to have to keep my wifes car until Tuesday we need to rush over right now to get a rental car. Drop everything spend a good bit of the afternoon getting this taken car of and now I am running out of time to get seat in...which let me say is seriously a two man job...but I only had me. I managed to finally get it together and am fairly happy with the results.
A few hours of sleep and I am up and ready to go! Wife wakes up to stomache problems (probably to fast food we had to eat while dealing with the car dealership) daughter is sick too...no lake for us. I wait all day hoping they will get better, no luck (they're fine now) and the sun goes down and I take her back to storage. everything is fine and I am disconnecting the trailer when my wife calls I set the keys down on the back of the truck to take the call...guess what happens?
That's right I forget them on the back of the truck (only the keys to the tailgate, hitch lock, trailer lock, house and truck bed cover) drive the 30 minutes back to the house and realize I have no house key. Drive back and spend three hours combing the dirt lot and the side of the highway with a flashlight and a spotlight, the night watchman at the lot even tries to help (after the watchdog almost eats me) I finally call off the search till morning. I go back in the morning and bring a freind, we search everywhere for over an hour...nothing.
So if you made it to the end of this story the lesson is....
I spent over four hours of my life searching for keys that will cost;
- new trailer tougne lock $6
- new key for hitch lock $3
- new house key $3
- new truck bed key $3
- don't need a tailgate key because the valet key is the same
- total $15
pride could never be repaired, I have never lost a key in my life..finding them would not have made it better....it simply would have made this story better!
Until next time...learn from my mistakes
Know where your circuit breakers are, ALL of them! (Update to this, I cleaned and tightened all battery connections and I think this fixed the problem)
ALWAYS chock tires before disconnecting trailer.
If a trailer tire looks like it might be bad, REPLACE it.
NEVER put your keys ON a vehicle.
Cap'N Chris Over and Out
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and while I am on the phone the boat starts drifting, how did he do that??? 
