Friday, November 24, 2006
But I did get a commendation on contract law today
"I'm turning a bit thick," I say to Mike, propping myself up on the pillows. "Earlier I was on my friend's profile thingy and spent ages wondering why she was so into the Maritme club. Turns out it was marmite."Mike laughs. "At least you know what maritime means now."
"True," I say. "I know all about boats now. Bill of lading, banker's commercial cred-"
"Right," Mike says, in his bored-law voice.
"I still don't actually know why there's a boat court though. Cat doesn't either. We wondered what was actually shipped."
"You really have a problem with this, don't you?" Mike says, staring at me.
"Well, isn't everything flown now?"
Mike's eyes widen. "Er, no. Nothing is."
"What!" I admit, I am squawking. "What about vegetables?"
"Shipped."
"Books?"
"Shipped."
"Toys?"
"Shipped. Remember furbies?" He says. I nod. I had two afterall. "They're shipped."
"Are cats, then?"
Mike looks slightly worried about my classification of animals. "Er, I don't know actually. Basically you have a dock -"
"A what?" I say.
"Oh God. A dock. A port. Accept it. And people unload the good there and send it off in those big train carriages you see."
"Ooh ooh, the cargon carriers?" I say.
"Cargo, yes. The box ones."
"I've never seen those. Only the ones without lids and they're carrying rubble, not furbies or vegetables."
"Well, I'll show you one next time we're in New Street."
I think for a while.
"How big are these ships?" I say.
"Very long and flat. Because of Archimedes' principle - do you remember that from a-level?"
"Yes."
"Well that means a lot of the boat has to be under the sea."
"Like on those plaque adverts?"
"Yes."
"And people on these cruise boat thingies sit there shipping vegetables that turn up in our ports?"
"Yes."
"So you're telling me," I say. "That there are people working at docks that I never seen unloading these goods that I think are flown, on really big boats I've never seen, on trains I've never heard of."
"You are really, really thick sometimes."
Labels: blonde moments, NaBloPoMo
by billygean.co.uk at 6:19 PM |
2 Comments:
you can fly animals! I remeber on that "Airport" reality show they had lots of parrots on the plane..
although I think they all died in quarantine..
The people we bought our house from had a dog that had to go on a boat for 8 weeks when they moved to New Zealand! Poor thing.. I wonder if anyone walks them?
Actually, I used run a company that shipped a lot of stuff in from the US and then shipped it all over the world.
By air.
Now we use the Internet instead.
Work that one out!
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