[N/A] Daddy -- I'm Sorry

Lawreston

Lawreston

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"But it was late and I couldn't find a place to park the truck."

HR
 

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That reminds me of patrolling the northen Arabian Gulf and coming across ratty dhows with sacks of grain goats and a Mercedes sedan in the middle of it all.
 
Okay, I give up. I don't get it.

All I see is a trash truck on a ferry. What am I missing?
 
good sense of humor here, apparently I am just thick.
Daddy? Ferry? Trash trucks? hmmmm...
 
I was on the Casco Bay Lines ferry from Portland(ME) to Peaks Island, about a 15 minute trip. Peaks Island is part of Portland. However, there have been numerous attempts in the last several years by which Peaks would secede from Portland and become a municipality unto itself. Said actions have, thus far, failed to occur. Though there are year-round residents, probably the bulk of properties are owned by out-of-staters whose families have been summering on the island for generations.(See photo of vehicle whose allegiance is license-plated).
The numerous ferries of CBL run every hour, they being the sole transportation to the work or school locations of the island residents. Many passengers travel with their cars/trucks because work or school may be somewhat distant from in-city Portland.
If "Junior" doesn't get his accompanying vehicle to the ferry "in-time" for the last run he'll be stuck on the mainland. The ship and truck in my photo belong to a contractor. Thus, it's not a traditional ferry, but a ship the contractor uses to transport his construction vehicles to/from the Casco Bay Islands(Peaks, Cliff, Long, Great Diamond, and others. It's just very unusual to see a tied to a mooring vessel with a vehicle on it. So I captured the occasion.
It's possible that the island's restriction on overnight parking of construction vehicles ran counter to the contractor's skipper not getting the truck back to the mainland, and offloaded, prior to the ferry terminal's nightly shut-down time. Don't know, but the fact that it's sittin' on the bay was unusual.

HR

[EDIT] Added photo shows part of the north side of the large island. It is ringed with similar properties as well as along the roads throughout the interior. One house is a former bunker from WW-II, where the gun placements(US Army 240th Coast Artillery) used to be on the lookout for German submarines.
 

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Back in high school a guy I know had to "call his dad".

He and another buddy decided to skip school and get the boat out onto the river for the afternoon. He backed the trailer down the ramp, and went too far on the moss/mud. The current pulled the trailer and the car into the water. He climbed onto the roof and climbed into another boat. His boat floated downstream because the guy in it didn't know what he was doing. So they had to use the 2nd boat to chase the first one down. Meanwhile, somebody from school called his mom to report him missing without permission. She noticed the trailer and car were gone and drove to the boat ramp to see what was going on. All she could see was the roof of their car, no boat, and no kid. 911 calls, and all that implies, led to a lot of excitement for him when he finally made it back. His mom told him that he would have to call his dad (who was overseas at the time) and explain what happened.
 
I have to say, you have the most arcane titles! This had me thinking that either your Dad had died or you did something really bad, bad enough to have to apologize to him.

Don't get the joke. At all.
 
For a young son who lives on a island, goes on a date on the mainland, misses the last boat home, and doesn't get Dad's vehicle back, he would have reason to apologize, said vehicle being stranded between two CLOSED landing terminals. To those familiar with daily island/city life the humor is there.
Check the site, below.

HR

http://peaksislandmaine.net/Peaks.shtml
 
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Lawreston said:
For a young son who lives on a island, goes on a date on the mainland, misses the last boat home, and doesn't get Dad's vehicle back, he would have reason to apologize, said vehicle being stranded between two CLOSED landing terminals. To those familiar with daily island/city life the humor is there.
Check the site, below.

HR

http://peaksislandmaine.net/Peaks.shtml
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I think the above is a party of one, here.
 
Matthew said:
Back in high school a guy I know had to "call his dad".

He and another buddy decided to skip school and get the boat out onto the river for the afternoon. He backed the trailer down the ramp, and went too far on the moss/mud. The current pulled the trailer and the car into the water. He climbed onto the roof and climbed into another boat. His boat floated downstream because the guy in it didn't know what he was doing. So they had to use the 2nd boat to chase the first one down. Meanwhile, somebody from school called his mom to report him missing without permission. She noticed the trailer and car were gone and drove to the boat ramp to see what was going on. All she could see was the roof of their car, no boat, and no kid. 911 calls, and all that implies, led to a lot of excitement for him when he finally made it back. His mom told him that he would have to call his dad (who was overseas at the time) and explain what happened.
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You sound intimately familiar with the details of that little escapade. Did it happen to a "friend"? :rofl:
 
Rndmtrvlr said:
You sound intimately familiar with the details of that little escapade. Did it happen to a "friend"? :rofl:
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heh - yeah, that's it, a 'friend'!!

Actually, Leavenworth, KS was small enough at the time that pretty much everyone in school knew everyone else - especially among us Army brats. Stories like that didn't take long to get around.
 
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