You might be a waterskier if….

[Wish]

If you think there should be a federal ban on jet skis…

 

If your ski budget exceeds your household food and everything else budget….

 

If you owned a ski boat before you owned a vehicle strong enough to pull it….

 

If you have a box full of bindings and fins cause throwing them out seems wrong….

 

If you have a rack of old skis..same reason…

 

If you own a two car garage and both cars remain outside in the elements…

 

If you pretend to be at the office…

 

If your trucks only purpose in life is to put a boat in and take it back out… 

 

If your dock is the second most expensive structure on your property…

 

If you consider yourself the luckiest man on earth cause your wife drives you through the slalom course…

 

If you feel you’ve died and gone to heaven cause she drives …AND skis…

 

If you own more then one pair of calipers…

 

If your first thought upon seeing a lake is deciding if you think a course may or may not fit…

 

If you’ve measured those lakes on Google earth to see if you’re right... 

 

If your response to the doctor telling you ..do not walk on your sprained  ankle is to ask.. “but can I go ahead and ski on it”?…

 

If your vacation planing involves finding both a place to ski and things for your wife to do… 

 

If you scheduled your wedding in the winter months and told her it’s because you find snow beautiful…

 

If you have a melt down picking up that gas can you thought was full…

 

If you restrain from screaming at a newby that steps on your boat seat like it’s a stepping stool... 

 

If it pains you to use gas pulling tubes…

 

If your Christmas, Father’s (mothers) Day and birthday lists consist only of ski gear or a gas cards…

 

If you get disgusted when you tell someone you water ski and they ask if you do those pyramids things or can barefoot…

 

If you delay your wife’s epidural during a painful delivery cause you got chatty with the anesthesiologist who happened to be a skier. (yep, I did that)….

 

If you don’t think twice about boasting loudly to your ski buddy that he “had the best looking 2 ball of the day” and you have yet to exit the store... 

 

If you fist pump when you hear the weather man utter the words “sunny and calm” for the next days forecast…

 

If you have that new ski shipped to your office or buddies house to avoid conflict... 

 

If you think she doesn’t know you bought a new ski…

 

If a 2 hour drive is nothing when it comes to that 17 second thrill ride...

 

If all of the T-shirts you own have something to do with waterskiing... 

 

If you think it’s worth a speeding ticket to make it to the lake before dusk... 

 

If you feel Daylight savings is the work of the devil... 

 

If the only two seasons in your life are ski season and waiting for ski season…

 

If you own a website dedicated to the sport of waterskiing as primary source of income…

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

[david_ski]

Guilty

[Rednucleus]

Yikes, guilty of 10 of these!

[DoubleD]

Those are great, and so many of them have been me.  Especially seeing a lake and then pulling out my phone to check the length on Google.

[sunperch]

If you only wait 3 weeks instead of 6 after giving birth to get back on the water because you had a May baby.

[skiermanbrad]

So many of these apply. And the ones that don't, I totally understand.

[aupatking]

If your wife gets mad during tax season about that $1,000 that came out of your account in November for a ski she never knew about...

[thager]

Only 1K? 1 Ski?

[MitchellM]

Wow, that really hit home!

[Jmoski]

You know your a water skier from New England when you are talking about skiing in April and your co workers think you talking about snow skiing…

Edited March 26, 2023 by Jmoski

[morfoot]

....your personal fleet of boats are all inboards that have a ski pylon because EVERYONE needs a spare just in case your primary tow boat goes down.

[PacMan]

If you've been late for work because the lake was glass

If you've been waterskiing when there is snow on shore.

 

Edited April 26, 2023 by PacMan
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[bananaron]

Taking a ski run just before the summer storm is about to hit your lake.The calm before the storm......Perfect water and no boats!!

[Taperflex]

Or if you have the Adams build your C85 with C75 graphics so your wife won't know.

She still doesn't.

[bikesrus]

If you’re already checking the weather for next weekend and this weekend isn’t even over with.  

[Wish]

Literally just did that. 😂

[Wiltok]

You look at any body of water that is glass calm - no matter how small - and think how great it would be to ski.

[Nautique99]

I honestly thought I was the only person who measures random lakes on Google maps - thought I had some weird / unique quirk  😆     Apparently I'm just a waterskier - what a relief! 

[Slalom.Steve]

You get unprompted texts from your brother (and fellow skier) that say things like: "The wind has been below the forecasted level for the past 90 minutes."

[6balls]

Yeah I'm at 22 check boxes there from that list.  One year one of my ski partners--as george thorogood would say--done lost his job.  But he rebounded with his own business working from home--he could go anytime any day just worked around it.  July descended on us and no shit the MONTH was warm/sunny/calm.  We skied 30 of 31 consecutive days.  Sure there were a few windy days in there but we had so many courses nearby set up on small lakes found on google earth (ok not really but I've done that), that we were golden if the wind were west, northwest, south or southeast.  Was a very cool summer.  Vapor Lithium that year.  

[ETskier]

Driving on the highway, see a lake along side and start counting seconds to see if it's long enough. Have done that so many times.

[Lieutenant Dan]

22 hours ago, ETskier said:

Driving on the highway, see a lake along side and start counting seconds to see if it's long enough. Have done that so many times.

+1 here

[1skinut]

If you’ve ever had a fisherman cast his lure at you…

[Wiltok]

3 hours ago, 1skinut said:

If you’ve ever had a fisherman cast his lure at you…

If you ever had a fisherman pull a gun on you....

[VONMAN]

Wow! I need help, so many are true of me. My wife is a Saint for putting up with me.

[208maverick]

On 5/16/2023 at 8:36 PM, Wiltok said:

If you ever had a fisherman pull a gun on you....

... if you've ever had to pick your brother out of the water at high speed (seal training style) because he sent a drenching wall of water atop an amorous couple on a becalmed catamaran one night, and then crashed immediately thereafter, giving the male contingent of the amorous couple and opportunity to dive into the water and catch your brother with intent of serious bodily harm...