Dave, you have a valid rant. A much more honest approach would be to say "seeing you wearing your PFD puts me in my happy place!" I'm quite surprised at how attached I've become to my LifeSaver. I only started wearing it all the time because I started paddling with club members and wanted to keep them in their "happy places". Now I feel nekkid without it and although I'm the type of person who gets hot easily, my LS has never seemed to be a problem. It's a bit funny, I was thinking about it on the way in yesterday, gloved and covered in rubber, with my PFD and helmet on, radio in my pocket, dripping head to toe after a couple combat rolls, with a nice chunk of wood broken off my GP that I must look like a real dork to all the folks paddling the beautiful day in nothing but their swim trunks. When I feel that condescension, I do a quick roll in front of them and it puts me in my happy place. Mark On 1/4/2010 6:22 AM, Dave Kruger wrote: > Beware, this is a bit of a rant. > > > So, when someone says, "I want you to wear a PFD because I'm > uncomfortable if you don't" I want to gag. Tell it like it is: "If > you don't wear the bloody PFD it makes it a lot tougher for me to drag > your ass back into/onto the boat." Or, "that PFD will make it ever so > much easier to find your body and smooth the collection of your life > insurance." *************************************************************************** PaddleWise Paddling Mailing List - Any opinions or suggestions expressed here are solely those of the writer(s). You must assume the entire responsibility for reliance upon them. All postings copyright the author. Submissions: PaddleWise_at_PaddleWise.net Subscriptions: PaddleWise-request_at_PaddleWise.net Website: http://www.paddlewise.net/ ***************************************************************************Received on Mon Jan 04 2010 - 07:04:31 PST
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