PATIENCE.......I'M WORKING ON IT

Craig is always telling me to have patience, but I do have patience. I can sit for hours and do cross stitch, or scrap booking, or even reading tedious instructions, but I don't have patience to just sit and wait and that is exactly what we did today. After a lazy start Sunday morning and a stop at the Wal Mart in Worthington, MN, we drove into the Bayliner plant in Pipestone at around 10am. We saw that another boat driver had arrived shortly before us, but had bob tailed into town for breakfast. We hooked up the satellite TV and settled in for the rest of the day. Little did I realize we would still be settled in 24 hours later.

When daybreak came and the employees started arriving at 6am we knew we would be second in line to load. Craig checked in and came back to tell me the load of boats going to Virginia Beach, VA were not ready, seemed they had some sort of carpet problem. Even with me going in and using my charm to butter up the loaders with two dozen chocolate chip cookies, the boats still wouldn't be ready until the end of the week. The best we could hope for was to be dispatched on another load.

A couple of hours later we were informed we would in fact be receiving a different load, four boats to be delivered right back to Wilson Marine in Brighton, Michigan. Good news, we knew the route and the layout of the business and their unloading routine, bad news, the trailers for these boats were not ready yet. But at least they promised us they would have us loaded sometime today. All we could do was sit by and watch as other drivers pulled into the loading bay and got their boats loaded.

Finally, after nine hours we were loaded with the boats and headed back to Michigan. As of now, it looks like after we unload these boats, we will be sent back to Pipestone to hopefully pick up the boats headed to Virginia Beach. Patience and time will tell if that is in deed the case.