As the massive freighter made its
way through the water there were hundreds of metal flakes falling off the sides
of the ship. If you were close enough it
appeared as though it were raining. Nobody seemed concerned but me, then again,
this entire activity was new to me.
Everyone else must have seen it all before.
It was the job of the mail boat
to deliver the week’s mail to the freighter as it passed. Compared to the passing ship, the mail boat
was tiny. The captain had to know what
he was doing, or his little mail boat would get sucked under the freighter as
it moved. It had happened before.
I noticed two things. Besides the mail, pizzas were also hoisted up the rope,
and everyone on the small mail boat had on hats and safety glasses. This had to be because of the shower of falling
metal flakes landing on them.
When I think of the post office delivering letters, I had no idea this was part of the job. Yikes!
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