By Bill Stokes
Willy Stöwer , Public domain, via Wikimedia Commons
Kickass, the doorstop dog, tries to be as helpful as possible in getting the keeper through his daily slog, and therefore listens as he—the keeper laments going through yet another summer without a boat and all the attendant woes, worries, expenses, calamities, and distresses that go along with boat ownership.
To fill what seems to be an emptiness in the keeper’s summer-trouble-brain-space he is offering to share the boat related troubles of those who either find themselves overwhelmed by boat issues or are facing a boating dilemma so unexpected and complex as to be unsolvable by God Himself.
Those responding to the keeper’s generous offer can rest assured that he is experienced in all boat-trouble areas, and further points out that his qualifications in the field is a genetic condition that has been passed on to his son Michael who gives frequent boat-trouble demonstrations at his summer location at the river in Sauk, one of note being a bridge encounter and then a dead-engine stranding of Phyllis’s daughter Gina and son-in-law Steve, with Steve offering to swim to shore for rescue help.
The keeper looks forward to hearing from this summer’s boaters. Michael may assist him with the tough cases.
