Pirates - sort of...

 

It quickly became clear to me that the captain wasn’t going to turn the cruise ship around, no matter how sick we were.  During the night, with the help of three other gentlemen from the same deck we were on, we lowered my wife and I in a lifeboat and quietly watched as the giant ship grew smaller and smaller, the further away from us it got.

That sounds awkward, how about, the further away from us it became?  That’s a little better but still there is something off.

"What is that you're writing?"

 “Well I’m the captain now.  It is my duty to keep a log.  I need to document our adventure.”

“Where did you get that little notebook and pen?”

“It was in the drawer of the table in our room.”

“And you just TOOK IT?”

“Honey, look around.  We just stole a lifeboat from a cruise ship.  If they’re going to hang us it won’t be for this little notebook and pen.”

“Well, I just don’t think it’s right – just taking things.”

“I suppose you never took anything?”

“Well, I did snag this loaf of bread as we were passing that last dining station.  I just thought we’d need something to eat.”

“Is that the Sun Bread they were serving at lunch yesterday?  That was terrible, and who ever heard of Sun Bread anyway?”

“I have. Don’t you remember their commercials?  It’s Sun Bread, our Sun rises in the yeast.”

“Well that’s just stupid.”

‘…and besides, who said you get to be Captain?”

“Because I’m the one who understands Mary Times Law.”

“You’re not even saying that right.”

“I am too.  It all started back with Mary Times, or as she became known, Queen of Scots, and her friend Prudence.”

“OK, I’ve heard of Mary Queen of Scots, but who is this Prudence character?”

“It was Juris Prudence.  Her and Mary came up with the laws that govern what happens out at sea.”

“Frank, I don’t know what school you attended, but there are a few too many holes in your three ring binder."

 

Tune in again tomorrow for another exciting episode of The Adventures of Frank and Marge.