This thread is awesome.
For me, there was one May long weekend that my friends and I spent at a buddy's cabin on the lake. Naturally we drank for 3 days straight, and on the third day we all had pretty vicious hangovers. Nevertheless, we decided a good idea would be to take the canoe out on the lake before we left. The lake was super choppy that day, and our canoe had holes big enough to let fish in. This was naturally not enough to stop us. We managed to float long enough to get it out towards the middle of the lake, when we figured we'd gone way too far and had to turn around. When we started to try, we turned sideways to oncoming waves, and eventually our canoe capsized. Because we were groggy after 3 days of hard drinking, we decided to swim for shore and not float in with the canoe. It was the longest, most grueling swim I've ever endured, and all 3 of us were pretty shaken up on shore. My one friend still carries a lifejacket in the trunk of his car, just in case. Why weren't we wearing life jackets on the canoe, you may wonder? Because we thought it was funny the night before to throw them all on the roof of the cabin
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