Big John
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During our two week holiday up the river I happened to stop at the public moorings at Goring. We pulled in just to have a walk into town but as the weather turned bad we decided to stop the night.
An Anglo-Welsh hire narrow boat started up his engine directly behind me and commenced to charge up his batteries. As he was a hire boater I gave him some time but by 18.15 I had had enough of the noise and diesel fumes and I politely asked him to stop which he did and I thanked him.
Low and behold the large plastic 38ft in front of me then started his internal generator. Because his exhaust outlet was by the concrete the noise was amplified and all that could be heard was a deep constant rumbling.
I put up with this for about an hour and I went to asked if the owner would turn it off. His wife answered and I explained the noise was not acceptable and she said ”oh yes it is getting late, 19.45, I will speak to my husband”. Within 10 mins he came marching down telling me he will run his generator until 21.00 if it suits him as he is all electric and needs to charge the batteries.
I explained I had had a problem with the narrow boat and he said he hated narrow boats and the running of their engines! I did not see his logic.
He then told me to get a life and watch TV or listen to the radio to drown out his noisy generator.
Any comments?
An Anglo-Welsh hire narrow boat started up his engine directly behind me and commenced to charge up his batteries. As he was a hire boater I gave him some time but by 18.15 I had had enough of the noise and diesel fumes and I politely asked him to stop which he did and I thanked him.
Low and behold the large plastic 38ft in front of me then started his internal generator. Because his exhaust outlet was by the concrete the noise was amplified and all that could be heard was a deep constant rumbling.
I put up with this for about an hour and I went to asked if the owner would turn it off. His wife answered and I explained the noise was not acceptable and she said ”oh yes it is getting late, 19.45, I will speak to my husband”. Within 10 mins he came marching down telling me he will run his generator until 21.00 if it suits him as he is all electric and needs to charge the batteries.
I explained I had had a problem with the narrow boat and he said he hated narrow boats and the running of their engines! I did not see his logic.
He then told me to get a life and watch TV or listen to the radio to drown out his noisy generator.
Any comments?
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