Friday the 13th

[Island Runner]

I know exactly what you mean. I was headed to my boat Friday evening, to finally get out and fish saturday/sunday, when I got a call from a buddy who was launching his, new to him, 27' Sportcraft. He asked when will you get to the marina? I said 2.5 hrs as I live 150 miles from my boat and had just left. He said I need your help, my boat died and the wind blew me up against a seawall and now I'm tied up to the seawall and I have a thru-hull that is leaking water. At that point I already knew my fishing for the weekend was shot!
I hate to talk bad about a buddy, but WOW! This boat was is no way ready to be launched and ,to be honest, I can not believe the marina allowed it to be launched!
Upon arriving at my marina, I found him up against a seawall ankle deep in water trying to get his boat started. I said turn on your bilge pump. He said I did, but when I turn on the bilge pump, my horn blows! And this was just the beginning. Luckily I have spools of primary wire on my boat and two extra 2000gph bilge pumps and switches as I had just upgraded my pumps to 4000gph the weekend before. I rigged one up to pump him out and installed the other once it was pumped out. He did not even have a working bilge pump in his boat! I then was able to stop the leaking thru-hull with a homemade gasket and lots of 3M 5200.
Once the threat of sinking was gone it was time to get running. It was pretty obvious he had water in his gas and spinning off the water separator confirmed it. Of course I had a extra one on my boat and after hooking up a small pump and pumping the water and bad gas from the bottom of his tank, and a new filter in the carburator, which I also had a spare of, it was able to make its way to his dock. And the funny thing is, his dock is the closest dock at the marina to the crane! Its less than 50 feet away and he didn't make it!
Anyway, after we got it tied off, I said I need to run to my boat and put my food in the fridge etc. He road with me and when we got to my boat he drank 6 of my beers! Like he was dying of thirst. He then sees I have an extra shore power cord and asks if he can have it!!! I said no, thats for when I travel to other marinas and I need it. I instead let him borrow the 2 end connectors that make it possible to use a regular extension cord. I didn't need them anyway I guess.
Saturday, I gave him 2 brand new battery cables that I had as his burnt somehow. After rewiring half of his boat Saturday, I'd be damned if I wired the whole boat, I said I had to get going and he would need to finish the rest. He had the nerve to ask if we could take my boat out to fish! I said I had things to do and left, without a thank you or a how much do I owe you for the 2 bilge pumps, 2 float switches, 2 power adapters, a water/fuel separator, carburator filter, 2 battery cables, 3 spools of wire, 5 packs of terminal and but connectors, and 3 packs of different sized heat shrink tubing, and 1.5 days of labor!!!
Some peoples mentality I will never figure out!!!!!!