The BoatThe Boat

College

It was hot and muggy. Unusually so for October even in Florida. What you don’t need in Florida is a heat that wraps you like a warm blanket. But they were provisioning for a journey to South America where the forecasts looked much more to their liking.He picked a hell of a time to have to depart quickly to attend to the business. The business was supposed to be on autopilot by now, and they were both hoping this would be the last trip needed for quite some time. Between the heat and the water maker acting up, she had just about had it with being alone. Plus the day before yesterday she’d left her purse somewhere in town. And with it, her wallet and her phone. And her phone elvankent escort bayan was her connection to the rest of the world.But the view. Oh the view.She kept reminding herself that the worst days here buried the commuter lifestyle of the American suburbs without even skipping a beat.It had taken almost two months for her seasickness so subside. Two months of being green and chucking over the side. Everything was better now. She’d paid her dues and now started to feel like a sailor. There was an upside to it, she’d lost ten more pounds. Not exactly the way she’d wanted to but it was bathing suits all the time on this boat. Every Escort emek inch counted.The watermaker was a problem now though. The boat held three hundred gallons, but in this heat, it wasn’t going to last the week even skipping laundry and showers.They had docked the boat in a slip all the way at the end. Walking an extra two blocks made it considerably cheaper, and neither of them really minded it anyway. It was quieter at the end with almost no tourists walking by.She had seen the Marina handyman a few times earlier in the day and poked her head up from time to time over the top of the console from where she was sitting in the shade to see eryaman escort if he was walking by.She flagged him down and asked him to come and take a look at it. After more than an hour he came up to the cockpit and explained in great detail why it needed to be replaced.She was upset at the news and wiped her hair from her forehead.”Well Ma’am,” he said in a thick accent she couldn’t quite place. He looked at her water tank gauges, “You’re gonna be runnin’ outta water at some point.””It’s going to have to wait until my husband is back later in the week, ” she paced the back of the walkway looking down at her bare feet. “You’re sure I can’t cross my heart and hope to die that I pay you when he gets back?” she drew an X across her chest and smiled.”Boss won’t let me, Ma’am,” he said, looking at her chest as she crossed it.She noticed him looking at her. It wasn’t the first time he’d stolen a look. She brought her hand up to the collar of her white wrap, “You suuuree?”

Bir yanıt yazın

E-posta adresiniz yayınlanmayacak. Gerekli alanlar * ile işaretlenmişlerdir