Work Game Story

HEre is another story from a coworker:

Summer, 2006. My in-laws own a single-wide on a nice lake in the country. They also have a pontoon boat docked out on the lake. My wife's grandpa also has a pontoon in a slip right next to my in-law's boat.

After a full day of hanging out on the water with the wife, kid, and in-laws, we pull the boat in the slip. My mother-in-law says Oh we told my dad we'd snap the cover back on his boat before we left. Jesus I just want to go back to the air conditioning and get cleaned up and eat. Snapping a cover all the way around a pontoon boat is a pain in the ass, especially when the boat sticks out 4 feet farther than the end of the slip.

So my father-in-law and I start doing this. Snap the front, get in the boat, put the tent poles up under the cover to create tension and hold the cover up, work our way around the sides. That's about the time my brain must have fell out of my head. Keep in mind that the walkways between the boats were about 2 feet wide. Also, the water around a dock is pretty gross. People clean their fish there and and it's mucky and oily from gas and oil that seeps from boats.

MY FATHER-IN-LAW'S POV: Brett was snapping the cover on and I was doing the same on the other side and we were going at the same pace, getting to end of the boat. Suddenly he disappeared. Immediately a yelled for him because I knew he went under and then I fell in too.

Yes. I wasn’t watching what I was doing and fell off the fucking slip. Everything in my pockets and with my flipflops still on. As I swam up to the surface I was dreading hearing about this. My FIL couldn’t say a damn thing though because he fell in too. I felt like such an dumbass. Having someone else do the exact same thing made it so much better though.

We decided together not to tell anyone.