A question of ethics

[Jools_of_Top_Cat]

Lets suppose you have been invited to a work collegues place for dinner. You have never been to his place before, in fact you have never mixed socially before, but thought it would be nice to get to him outside work.

While the ladies chat and get to know each other you follow him out to the garage to grab some drinks. Inside his garage is a jet ski, all polished and his pride and joy.

Question: Would you honestly be able to refrain from saying anything, could you compliment him, or would you launch into a lecture about respect for other water users........

Ladies, sorry for the sexist slant, but lets be fair, its gonna be his damn jetski init?

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[clyst]

I'd probably comment that his young son keeps his toy in good nick and ask if he bought it with his paper round money. Then ('cos by now he's a bit embarressed) give him the speel that Jets are for boys and hooligans!!! Ignorant lot etc etc.
Would feel pretty snug after that !!

NB Before I get hammered for that NOTALL jet riders are a bad lot !!! Just most of them!!! OOPS!!! IMHO

Terry

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[Heckler]

has happened to me, look at it in horror, and make a polite comment, unusual for me i know, but this particular guy was like em all, thick neck, tattoos, and gold bracelet and had to spend the next few hours in his and his blonde brassy wifes, hush ma mouth, company
he was inordinately proud of it but it was quite obviously a statement about him and his life style.
why are they all shaven headed?
stu

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[Dominic]

They ain´t all a-holes

I hate the damn things but.....

In Northern Spain a group were zooming around the bay and around my anchored yacht.

We remonstrated with them by gesture (you can guess this bit!) and one of the riders, a lady, apologised; again by gesture but very politely and they went further out of the bay.

Then they came back but one was left out there and broken down. The others had not noticed.

This a-hole had ceased to be a jet skier - he was in my eyes a "vessel in distress" so I fired up the dinghy and fetched him and towed him back to the slip.

One moment I was swearing at them, next I was helping them.

The etiquette ? An a-hole in distress is in distress. Besides, he probably had no grasp of how much he irritated me while his engine was running.

And me ? I hated the b**..*d until I saw a man on the water with a problem.



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[andyball]

Forget the lecture : it's like assuming that everyone who drives a porsche 911 is a left over yuppie, or if aston martin , 007 ....or if you've got a saily boat, you must be some hoo-ray type , louder than a sunsnail barbecue.

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[Guest]

I have a terrible habit ..

I'd try to tell him nicely that they are a menace in the wrong hands ..... the try to get out of the garage before he pommels me to mince-meat !!!!

Then of course you have the drive home with the missus castrating you for upsetting 'what are now HER friends' and embarrassing her beyond all belief. So now you've lost a potential pal, upset the wife and certainly will not get any xxx that night !!!

But I think the worst thing to do would be to look at it .... and aks .... 'What's that then ?' .......
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[ccscott49]

just say, "Oh! Thats a very nice machine", (they are nice machines) and leave it at that. What else can you say, he might be a stunt rider in his spare time, entertaining people, raising money for charity, you dont know. I get funny looks from some people, because I ride a motorbike. I don't like jetskis either, but...................live and let live and all that.

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[Cornishman]

Ethics? I thought that is where dumb girlth come from.

As an RNLI SEACheck Adviser I would ask him if he had had a check, and if not offer to do one for him. Then I have the opportunity to find out what sort of PWC driver he really is before going any further. Could save a few red faces.

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[Peppermint]

Re: This happens all of the time

if you mix broadly enough. I know three or four jetskiers socially and my "best man" (god knows I went to school with him 35 years ago and I thought I'd converted him) has just bought a skiboat with a V8. Does he ski? Well not on water. Does he need a V8? What on the Norfolk Broads. He lives in a riverside house on the river Chet. Speed limit 3MPH. The sudden compulsion to buy a shiney object can strike anyone anywhere. Beware!!!!

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[RupertW]

Ah, but just try jet-skiing before judging. It's a rotten spectator sport, but the feel of speed and control that close to the water is like nothing else.

The feeling wears off after about an hour or so but that's enough time to go 15 miles up the coast and back again (oh, and do tight circles around the hoorays in "fast" motorboats whilst they're doing their top speed - revenge is sweet!).






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