Shipwrecked Yuppie
An ambitious yuppie finally decided to take a vacation. He booked
himself on a Caribbean cruise and proceeded to have the time of his
life.
Until the boat sank. The man found himself swept up on the shore of an
island with no other people, no supplies...Nothing. Only bananas and
coconuts. After about four months, he is lying on the beach one day
when the most gorgeous woman he has ever seen rows up to him. In disbelief,
he asks her, "Where did you come from? How did you get here?" "I rowed
from the other side of the island," she says. "I landed here when my
cruise ship sank."
"Amazing," he says. "You were really lucky to have a rowboat wash up
with you." "Oh, this?" replies the woman. "I made the rowboat out of
raw material I found on the island; the oars were whittled from gum tree
branches; I wove the bottom from palm branches; and the sides and stern
came from a Eucalyptus tree."
"But-- but, that's impossible," stutters
the man. "You had no tools or hardware. How did you manage?" "Oh, that
was no problem,"replies the woman. "On the south side of the island,
there is a very unusual strata of alluvial rock exposed. I found 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."
The guy is stunned.
"Let's row over to my place, " she says. After a few minutes of rowing,
she docks the boat at a small wharf. As the man looks onto shore,
he nearly falls out of the boat. Before him is a stone walk leading to
an exquisite bungalow painted in blue and white. While the woman ties up
the rowboat with an expertly woven hemp rope, the man can only stare ahead,
dumbstruck.
As they walk into the house, she says 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 says, still dazed. "Can't take any more coconut
juice." "It's not coconut juice," the woman replies. "I have a still. "
How about a Pina Colada?" Trying to hide his continued amazement, the man
accepts, and they sit down on her couch to talk. After they have
exchanged their stories, the woman announces, "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 bathroom cabinet." No longer questioning anything, the
man goes into the bathroom. There, in the cabinet, is a razor made from a
bone handle. He sees a shower made from a gourd. "This woman is amazing,"
he muses. "What next?"
When he returns, she greets him wearing only strategically
positioned vines and smelling faintly of gardenias.
She beckons for him to sit down next to her. "Tell me," she begins,
"we've been out here for a really long time. You've been lonely.
Is there something you've been longing for all these months?",
she asks, gazing into his eyes.
He can't believe what he's hearing:
"You mean--?", he swallows excitedly, "-- I can check my e-mail from here...?"
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