re: Are boat launches some of the most comical places on earth?

I watched a guy with a new glitter rocket trying to put it in the water and he just couldn't bring himself to back it all the way where it needed to go to float it, so what does he do?

Puts down his power poles and pulls forward.

Needless to say, that was not a smart move. Now he's got two power poles that aren't going to retract every again because they're both bent, and now he can't even pull up because the boat is about a fourth way off the trailer so in spite of it all, he has to back down where he needed to go to get the thing to float to put it back on the trailer. As he was dragging those poles up the ramp and across the parking lot we were dying laughing in the cockpit of one of our sailboats and we started talking about getting score cards we can all put up at one time to score these kinds of idiots.