Boat premonition
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When on my boyfriends canal boat with his family on the way to York, my boyfriend's brother was showing off his art skills drawing our canal boat next to a previous drawing of his, of a bigger boat (ship size) he then put lines of three ropes attaching our boat to the ship as though our boat was being towed by it...
10 minutes later we were sand-banked by our fault of misreading the warning buoys (you're meant to go through them not around them) and so we tried to push ourselves free by the boys jumping in the water and us reversing but we were well and truly stuck with crowds watching us laughing. Finally after a 5minute struggle a much BIGGER BOAT offered to TOW us out, it took THREE ropes attached between the boats to pull us out.
When we came back inside we all noticed the drawing and were extreeeeemmely freaked out. :P
Date submitted:Fri, 13 Apr 2012 22:52:25 +0000Coincidence ID:6258
