Re: Joke

From: Dr Steve (nospam_at_home.net)
Date: 11/18/04 

Date: Thu, 18 Nov 2004 19:30:21 GMT

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Stephen Mancuso, D.D.S.
Troy, Michigan, USA
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"CWatters" <colin.watters@pandoraBOX.be> wrote in message 
news:rJ6nd.28550$4P6.1138760@phobos.telenet-ops.be...
> Not exactly a joke but... This is a true story that happened about 35 
> years
> ago. (I posted it to Rec.Humor.Funny in about 1994)...
>
> A friend was looking for a second hand boat (a Laser) to buy, when he hit 
> on
> a great idea...
>
> At his sailing club (the Queen Mary in London) there was a large trailer
> park and a smaller yard where the management put trailers and boats if the
> owner didn't pay their membership for 12 months. The Queen Mary club is 
> very
> big and at the time there were three or four Lasers in this yard that
> judging from their condition hadn't been sailed for at least a year.
>
> My friend took down the numbers of these boats and asked the club 
> secretary
> for the owners address so that he could make them an offer. The first chap
> he rang said he wasn't interested in selling as he was going to sail it
> himself "one of these days."
>
> He then rang the second owner who lived about 100 miles away. A woman
> answered the phone and confirmed that they did still own the Laser. My
> friend explained that he had seen it in the defaulters yard and that as it
> clearly hadn't been sailed for a year - did she think her husband would be
> interested in selling?
>
> "Oh no" she said, "there must be some mistake - come rain or shine my
> husband spends one weekend a month in London sailing..."
>
> I bet he had some explaining to do when he got home!
>
>

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