[H-GEN] A little bit of fun...

[Kevin Davies]

Worth the read...

An ambitious yuppie finally decided to take a vacation. He booked
himself on
a Carribean cruise and proceeded to have the time of his life. ...at
least
for awhile.A hurricane came unexpectedly. The ship went down and was
lost
instantly. The man found himself swept up on the shore of an island with
no
other people, no supplies, nothing. Only bananas and coconuts. Used to
4-star hotels, this guy had no idea what to do.
So for the next four months he ate bananas, drank coconut juice, longed
for
his old life, and fixed his gaze on the sea, hoping to spot a rescue
ship.One day, as he was lying on the beach, he spotted movement out of
the
corner of his eye. It was a rowboat, and in it was the most gorgeous
woman
he had ever seen. She rowed up to him.
In disbelief, he asked her: "Where did you come from? How did you get
here?"
"I rowed from the other side of the island," she said, "I landed here
when
my cruise ship sank."
"Amazing," he said, "I didn't know anyone else had survived. How many of
you
are there? You were really lucky to have a rowboat wash up with you."
"It's only me," she said, "and the rowboat didn't wash up, nothing did."
He was confused, "Then how did you get the rowboat?"
"Oh, simple." replied the woman "I made the rowboat out of raw material
that
I found on the island, the oars were whittled from Gumtree branches, I
wove
the bottom from Palm branches, and the sidesand stern came from a
Eucalyptus tree."
"But-- but, that's impossible," stuttered the man, "you had no tools or
hardware, how did you manage?"
"Oh, that was no problem," replied the woman, "on the south side of the
island there is a very unusual strata of alluvial rock exposed. I found
that
if I fired it to a certain temperature in my kiln, it melted into
forgeable
ductile iron. I used that for tools, and used the tools to make the
hardware. But, enough of that," she said. "Where do you live?"
Sheepishly he confessed that he had been sleeping on the beach the whole
time.
"Well, let's row over to my place, then" she said.
After a few minutes of rowing, she docked the boat at a small wharf. As
the
man looked onto shore he nearly fell out of the boat. Before him was a
stone
walk leading to an exquisite bungalow painted in blue and white. While
the
woman tied up the rowboat with an expertly woven hemp rope, the man
could
only stare ahead, dumbstruck. As they walked into the house, she said
casually "It's not much, but I call it home. Sit down please; would you
like
to have a drink?"
"No, no thank you" he said, still dazed, "can't take any more coconut
juice."
"It's not coconut juice," the woman replied. "I have a still. How about
a
Pina Colada?"
Trying to hide his continued amazement, the man accepted, and they sat
down
on her couch to talk. After they had exchanged their stories, the woman
announced,
"I'm going to slip into something more comfortable. Would you like to
take a
shower and shave, there is a razor upstairs in the cabinet in the
bathroom."
No longer questioning anything, the man went into the bathroom. There in
the
cabinet was a razor made from a bone handle. Two shells honed to a
hollow
ground edge were fastened on to its end inside of a swivel mechanism.
"This
woman is amazing," he mused, "what next?"
When he returned, she greeted him wearing nothing but
vines--strategically
positioned-- and smelling faintly of gardenias. She beckoned for him to
sit
down next to her.
"Tell me," she began, suggestively, slithering closer to him, "we've
been
out here for a very long time. You've been lonely. There's something I'm
sure you really feel like doing right now, something you've been longing
for
all these months? You know... " She stared into his eyes.
He couldn't believe what he was hearing: "You mean-- ?", he replied,
"--I can check my e-mail from here?"

Kevin Davies
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