Return-path: Outfit3029_at_aol.com From: Outfit3029_at_aol.com Full-name: Outfit3029 Message-ID: <0.ac9223c1.25379bd6_at_aol.com> Date: Thu, 14 Oct 1999 16:49:26 EDT Subject: Re: [Paddlewise] Rental Boats To: jhawkins_at_cisco.com, rdiaz_at_ix.netcom.com CC: paddlewise_at_lists.intelenet.net MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset="us-ascii" Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit X-Mailer: AOL 4.0 for Windows 95 sub 215 Once upon a time, and it seems like such a long time ago, there was a quiet little seaside town. In this quiet little seaside town, two good people started kayaking businesses. The first good paddler sold sit-on-top kayaks. These were friendly little boats and everybody loved them. All the good people would paddle around and shout, "Hey, look at me I'm kayaking!" The first good paddler rented many boats and all the good people loved him. This made the first good paddler very glad. The first good paddler's name was Dick. Now, the second good paddler, who's name was Buddy, was a mean man. He did not rent his boats to everyone with a credit card. He wanted to charge the good people for lessons, if you can believe that. This man made the good people wear Pfd's and water shoes and even made them do something called a wet exit. Why, even his boats did not seem user friendly. You could not sit on top, "this cannot be a kayak" the good people exclaimed. This made the good paddler very sad. He knew in his heart that he was doing the right thing. There are two morals to this story. First, be a Buddy. Do what you know is right. Second, don't be a Dick. Bruce Whole Earth Outfitters www.wholeearthoutfitters.com *************************************************************************** PaddleWise Paddling Mailing List - All postings copyright the author and not to be reproduced outside PaddleWise without author's permission Submissions: paddlewise_at_lists.intelenet.net Subscriptions: paddlewise-request_at_lists.intelenet.net Website: http://www.paddlewise.net/ ***************************************************************************
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