Thursday has rolled around once again, and, as usual, I’m linking up to Mama Kat’s Writer’s Workshop.
The prompt I chose today is:
1.) Share a disagreement you’re having with someone and let your readers be the judge!
Motor Man and I have had an ongoing disagreement since the summer of 1998. At that time we had only been seeing each other a few months, and, one Sunday, decided to drive to the Outer Banks for the day.
During our visit, we passed by a business that rented, among other things, jet skis. Since I never learned to swim, riding a jet ski was not at the top of my list of adventures I was waiting to experience. But I didn’t want to be a stick-in-the-mud, so I agreed to go jet skiing. However, I distinctly remember telling Motor Man not to go FAST.
I had no idea how terrified I would be. I was gripping the straps of Motor Man’s life-vest so tightly that I almost had to pry my fingers off the straps when we finally got back to shore.
Since that time, the disagreement between us has been about whether or not he was driving FAST during the jet ski ride. He’s maintained from the beginning that he really wasn’t going that fast. But I’ve also heard him telling the guys – on more than one occasion – that he had it “full throttle”.
I realize that the term full throttle may not mean FAST if the jet ski were only capable of going….say… 5 miles per hour. Let’s just say that it was most definitely faster than that.
And since I’ve known him since 1971, I should have known better than to ride in- or on- anything with him, expecting him not to go FAST.
I realize that, since none of you were there to witness this life-threatening event adventure, it will be difficult for you to judge who’s right in this disagreement.
But, to help in your decision making process, just keep these words in mind: wide-open throttle….wide-open throttle….
not the day of the jet ski ride, but the same summer
these days of mine 
Put any guy with a toy with a throttle and you get speed. YOU win this one, hands down! 🙂
Yes, having known JR that long, you should have known better. Love the picture.
This is such a cute post! I so agree I think you win this one hands down because any guy pretty much that says wide open throttle is going to go fast!!
Love the post and photo…..I was thinking while I was reading that even though I CAN swim, I still would have been terrified! Bless you for being such a good sport (eeeek!). I’m with you on this though….I like watching fast things but not being ON a fast thing (other than an airplane of course).
Pam
I’m inclined to agree with you. Why? Simply that there’s no way on a boy/man can NOT go as fast as they are able. Be it a jet ski or a convertible corvette taking a hard curve at 100+ miles per hour. (yeah I had a boyfriend do that once)
Here is what I think….I think Motor Man wanted you to hang on tight to him! So, to you he said he wasn’t going that fast….to his buddies he told the truth. He wanted your arms around him. I dated someone in college who admitted to doing that when I went on a motorcycle ride with him…I hung on behind me the whole time…he kept lurching the bike forward to try to get me to grab onto him. I am pretty sure it is a universal “guy” thing! 😉
I’m with Kayla 100%. Foxie Loxie that he is, he wanted you to get just a little closer 😉 MJ
I believe ya!! My sister did the same thing to me… she knows I’m deathly afraid of sharks and knew I was afraid of falling off in the open water and being attacked… well, she went FAST, hit a wave, and I flew off. I never swam so fast in my life to reach the jet ski but since the water was so choppy, I had a hard time getting back on! I was screaming and crying but finally managed to hop back on. I’ve never let her forget it ever since!
Yikes! As someone who never learned to swim and is afraid of all things fast (except maybe a horse ☺), I’m siding with you on this one!
Uh yah. If you all were just dating back then, he totally had to be going FAST, a.k.a. Full Throttle…that way you’d be sure to hang on to him real tight! 😉
~d.
I know JR…..enough said. You win, hands down
Ha! I like the “he wanted you to hold on tight” comment ~ very funny. Deep down, he knows the truth!! Great photo!
#1. He’s a man. #2 He’s a Motor Man who designs FAST ENGINES. ’nuff said.
Ha ha great post, I agree you win this one. Us girls got to stick together.
I think TexWisGirl has it on this one … but, since I’m having dinner with you both this evening, I’m passing no judgement.
I come down right in the middle. It was too fast, because it was too fast FOR YOU. But “wide open throttle” was bragging to the guys – I would bet he wasn’t quite there.
TexWis just took my comment. ha-ha 🙂
I’m smiling with this one! and agreeing with you!
I’m agreeing with you, you gotta know anyone called MotorMan is going to have the throttle wide open!
I say you win. Tell him he should just say sorry and get on with it! Stopping by from Mama Kat’s.
TexWisGirl summed it up quite well. You just didn’t see it coming, because love is blind. 🙂 How cautious of Marshall to straddle the fence!
Well…since he builds racing engines, I’m guessing it was a fast ride!
haha…..this is such a classy answer to that question!! what a cute couple you are!!
i’ll have to go read tex’s comment!! it must be good!!
I completely understand this argument. My hubby and I jet ski once in awhile in our local lakes, and he always goes way too fast. 40 MPH is my threshold…the second he goes over that, I freak out. He maintains that it’s not very fast, but geez, we’re in the open air, not a car! It’s very scary.
You win this. Hands down.
No question Dianna, you win! Motor man is all about F A S T.
You know we stick with our gal pals. That being said, maybe he just wanted to impress you with his skill at maneuvering the waves. Must have worked – he’s snagged his lady!