I live on an island. Yes, there are islands in Michigan. No, I'm not rich. Yes, there are several hundred people that live on the island (and several thousand in the summer).
Anyways...
In order to get to the island, one must drive a car onto a ferry. The ferry can fit 12 average-sized vehicles at one time. If you're talking about school buses or dump trucks or trucks with trailers, then it will carry LESS (yes, they can ferry those large vehicles over the water).
I'm annoyed by the fact that different ferry deckhands (the people directing traffic to load/unload the ferry) will load and unload the vehicles in a different order. They all unload in the same order, but some load it up differently and that bothers me.
There are three rows which fit four vehicles in a row. When unloading, it's always: center, left, right; center, right, left... until there are no more vehicles left on the boat.
SOME deckhands load the ferry: center, center, right, left. Sometimes they even load 3 in the center and then right/left. I can understand if there are only like three or four cars waiting to load when they are ready to cross... but if there are at least a dozen cars, load them in the order they lined up! That way, they are unloaded in the order they were loaded. If I was waiting in line a lot longer than someone else, I don't want to be stuck behind them after we unload because some deckhand felt like loading the ferry in no particular order. FOLLOW PROCEDURE.
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