I and a group of tourists were fleeing pirates on the Aegean coast when this photo was taken. We'd staged a mutiny earlier in the day when the boat's crew refused to use the sails like the tour company promised, and also for the fact they continued to blast techno music on all decks despite our repeated requests to turn it off.
The final straw came when the captain ran us aground on a reef because she was too short to see over the bow and missed the warning buoy. She also never offered to pay for the beers my fellow passengers drank at the bar on shore while we waited for the boat to be freed.
I was selected to lead the mutiny because I had the best hat, but things didn't go well. The pirates caught us, and even though we fought them off, they stole all of our ice. Many of the passengers were Australian and their brains rotted when they drank warm beer. A Slovenian passenger remained sane and urged us to turn ourselves in to the coast guard. We made him walk the plank.
So now we are fugitives on an uninhabited Mediterranean island. The cellphone I'm using to text this post will be destroyed immediately to prevent tracking. We've burned the boat. My methods have become unsound.
The horror. The horror.
where's the tilley?? i've been waiting for it to appear!! other than that, you know you don't appear to have aged (grown up??) at all. seriously though, glad you're having fun. SRD
ReplyDeleteMonkeys. Monkeys with hats.
ReplyDeleteRobert, this sounds so like you, very dramatic and a good story at that. Sounds like you were all having fun.
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