- Boat’s too small for everybody, but them trash bags full of empty cans float pretty good for thirty or forty minutes or so.
I didn't think of that. Actually I was thinking about you going to the store in your little boat -- for more beer. It only has to be big enough to carry plenty of beer. That's what I was thinking...anyhow...but you point out a pretty good possibility. You're a handy guy to have around -- you know that? The kind who effortlessly thinks about the possibilities...
But now you got me to thinking.
How far away is the nearest beer store? One that has good prices. I like beer, but don't like spending money I don't have to. I mean, we know you'll always be bringing plenty for everybody whenever you come back from wherever it is you go when you leave home, but waiting around for more beer to arrive a guy can get powerful thirsty.
We campers, when you're away at work, or wherever it is you go, could float all the way there (to a beer store) and back, if I could get somebody to help me row that barge?
If downwind on the coming-back tack, that would be helpful. Blue tarps can work as downwinders, you know? Tyvek HoweWrap works even better, temporarily. Don't ask me how I know this, it's one of those sailor's secrets kind of things...
Downwind on the way back to the campground puddles would be good for crew morale too, I would think. Sit back, drink a couple, or a few on the way back (myself drink a couple, or a few anyhow, the crew ---they'd be holding up corners of the tarp, following my orders, of course). I could steer with an oar off the stern. That would be the back part of the beer-can trash-bag raft/barge, for those of you Rio Linda...
It's too bad beer doesn't come in resealable plastic bottles though. If it did, we could widen the area covered in search of more beer (at better prices!).
Add a couple of oarlocks, step a mast for sailing, and we could have ourselves a fine 'ol time. We could even stop by a Walmart on the way back (if their parking lot was flooded enough, or there was a creek next to it) and pick up a new mailbox for you. Maybe a few mailboxes... so we could shoot, and blow up some of them too ---like we're going to do with the old one so that we can sell commemorative t-shirts in honor of the event, and participants (and get more Beer money).
Ah -- ammo! a little more ammo is always good too! Glad I thought of that...