Keeping your head in the game
"Hello"
"Anyone home"
Tom- "shi*". We needed visitors like we needed additional holes in our heads. I had the galley torn apart rebuilding the refrigerator. Kirstin was sewing a bedspread in the rest of our space. I went out to dispatch our visitor.
"Oh, hey Ralph". Ralph is actually a good guy so my annoyance dissipated. He invited us to a 4th of July party at a restaurant here in beautiful, but third world, Bequia (Grenadines). It was easier to say yes than no so we agreed.
Our fellow cruisers all brought board games. Ugh. It seems they like to play at parties.....so, we went along. As we drank beer and got into the games it became apparent (and quite funny) that our American cruising brethren were not the sharpest tools in the shed. Be it math, word association, or even a basic understanding of English, they fell woefully short........like 80 IQ small yellow bus short. They couldn't even follow directions, and nobody had more than 2 beers. A group of 4th graders would have embarrassed them.
We resolved to continue reading heavily and make sure we never get like this crowd.........probably retired not by choice but because they are unemployable.
"Anyone home"
Tom- "shi*". We needed visitors like we needed additional holes in our heads. I had the galley torn apart rebuilding the refrigerator. Kirstin was sewing a bedspread in the rest of our space. I went out to dispatch our visitor.
"Oh, hey Ralph". Ralph is actually a good guy so my annoyance dissipated. He invited us to a 4th of July party at a restaurant here in beautiful, but third world, Bequia (Grenadines). It was easier to say yes than no so we agreed.
Our fellow cruisers all brought board games. Ugh. It seems they like to play at parties.....so, we went along. As we drank beer and got into the games it became apparent (and quite funny) that our American cruising brethren were not the sharpest tools in the shed. Be it math, word association, or even a basic understanding of English, they fell woefully short........like 80 IQ small yellow bus short. They couldn't even follow directions, and nobody had more than 2 beers. A group of 4th graders would have embarrassed them.
We resolved to continue reading heavily and make sure we never get like this crowd.........probably retired not by choice but because they are unemployable.