Boating season's almost over, and a big annual street festival is taking place just a few blocks away. I haven't been; literally, the festival has come to me.
Via transients.
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The marina rents empty slips to transients. I'm not a big fan of transients. In fact, I'm no fan of transients at all.
Transients know they don't belong, and interpret hospitality as a right to do as they please.
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What's the difference between transients and liveaboards? Liveaboards pay full-time fees to stay here and therefore live that way 24x7x365. ; transients pay a weekend rate and will be gone next week; they're here to suit themselves and to have a good time.
Transients take their own rules with them whenever they leave home ... and in general, weekend transients seems to have no rules at all. Except doing whatever they want to at the moment, any place and any time of day or night, no matter who it offends, no matter who is inconvenienced and no matter who must pick up after them on Monday morning.
