During our trip to Seattle, we took a boat ride over to Victoria, British Columbia. It was a two hour trip one way. The boat was really more of a ship. A fast catamaran design, new and sleek.
We were enclosed in a spacious deck with windows all around and jetliner style seating. Very comfortable.
As I sat staring aimlessly out the window, watching the sea and distant land move by, I looked down at the deck. There, securely attached to the deck, sat this series of large, fiberglass capsules which contained the life saving equipment for all aboard. I presume each one contained a large inflatable raft and other provisions.
However, in the event of a disaster, I reckon I would never have the priveledge to find out what was inside them. For there, clear as a bell on the top of each and every capsule, was the mandate.
“DO NOT TOUCH LIFE SAVING EQUIPMENT”
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Don,I am really enjoying your new blogging style. I have always loved your illios and sense of humor. Let me tell you, at this time how sorry I feel for your having to endure those endless aweful winters there is sub artic Georgia.
I too love those short breads but would NEVER have an entire keg in the house at one time! I could not be trusted to make the stash last all winter.
Have fun!
It’s baaaaaad down here in the winter. Winter ain’t even here yet and I’ve got frost on my eyebrows.
Thanks for the comment Lindsay!
Did the lifesaving equipment also have a child-proof cap? I’m glad you and the Missus didn’t need it.
Hi Karen,
Not exactly. But if you have a look at the grey-brown straps wrapped around the capsule, you get the impression that it might be a pill to open if you didn’t happen to have a pocket knife on you.
There were two sets of the straps, one at each end. Alongside the “mandate” were some of those stupid graphical instruction stickers that “clearly” explain how to disengage the straps.
I would have to say, that in the event of an emergency, nobody is going to attempt to figure out the graphical instructions…or adhere to the mandate.
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