The other day we were driving past East Side Lake and a bus of tourists was unloading in the parking lot as someone was getting the Spam Belle ready to launch. I gestured out the window and commented, "Looks like they are going to take the boat for a ride."
"I don't understand," was Sam's reply.
"There are lots of people in the parking lot and they are getting the boat ready to take it out on the lake for a ride." I said, not really understanding what he didn't understand.
"I see the people and I see the boat, but you don't take a boat for a ride. The people are going to ride on the boat."
"Oooooh!" I smiled and had a little laugh. "Yes, Sam, you're right. They aren't taking the boat for a ride, they are riding ON it. The boat is taking them for a ride."
"I don't understand why people say ride wrong all the time."
Laughing, I had to agree and give Sam a point for grammar. "I guess about the only way you can really take a boat for a ride is if you are pulling it on a trailer."
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