Post #11458 by midnite on Mon, Oct 21, 2002 4:16 PM

Ok, here goes:

TRUE STORY

I was born in Cocoa Beach, Fl, and in some of my formative years we lived very near the beach. My Mom was a real shell collector and got me started in it as a youngster, but I digress. Anywho, Mom was a real "corker" (no pun intended, see below) and in 1981 we went on a family cruise to the Panama Canal/Carribean Zone.

We're on the ship and one of the many "do's/don'ts" was a don't about throwing things over the rail. Well, whether she had premediated this or not, Mom inserted a note in a wine bottle, sealed it up and...oh yeah...she throw it over. She did this without my knowledge, and apart from an "uprising" in Cartagena, the cruise was uneventful.

So, how do I know my Mom did this dastardly deed on the high seas? Forward now a few months, like almost a year. I see in our mail a peculiar envelope (airmail) from somewhere Cay. Mom opens it up and it's the note she threw over the S.S. Fairwind someplace in the Caribbean! :o A local fisherman, or so he said fiosherman, found it walking the beach of his island paradise.

Mom wrote back once and the sharp-eyed beachcombing chap responded, with a request for currency...hard, the more the better. Needless to say, the financial nature of the discourse sounded the deathknell to Mom's correspondence with her new penpal.

The odds? I don't know, but it happened.

midnite

[ Edited by: midnite_tiki on 2002-10-21 16:17 ]