Name:   MartiniMan - Subject:   Karen's (or Kevin's) at the lake Date:   7/20/2020 11:19:44 AM

So I live in a slough and go no wake until the lake opens up.  Went out on Saturday per usual and as I was getting set up to wakeboard with one of the kids some late teenage kid pulls up on his jet ski and starts to give me a hard time about the waves my boat made when I left the slough.  As it turns out this was a family with a bunch of teenage kids with 12 old jet skis that come into our slough and drive around like crazy almost every weekend.  They also trespass on a nighbors undeveloped property all the time to put the jets ski's in and pull them out.

I politely informed Kevin that the area where I speed up is nowhere near their dock and is over 100 feet wide.  I also pointed out that he had a lot of nerve complaining about waves considering the crazy stuff they do in our slough with their obnoxiously loud jet ski's.....somthing I would point out that I've never complained about other than the running joke about the rednecks are back with their jet skis.  He claimed their waves were only 6 inches high but he threatened to come back and make some real waves.  I told him to have at it as I didn't care since I moor my boats to withstand waves but he will have to deal with my neighbors who might not be so nice.  I told my next door neighbor about it and he told me this family is infamous for being entitled and whining about people all the time because they have the nerve to use their lake.  He said if they do come into our slough and make waves he'll take his 27' boat up and do circles near their dock.  And he is my calm neighbor.....the others would not be so nice.

My wife wasn't initially happy with my response but when we went back in and I showed her where their dock was compared to where we started going faster she understood why I responded the way I did.  I go out of my way to avoid making waves around docks and in narrow areas.  In fact, I only wakeboard or surf in areas with no houses or docks out of courtesy to others.  I like to remind people that when you live on a lake you need to plan for waves even if they shouldn't happen.  I go there to relax and don't want to spend my time getting angry about waves.