THE
YUPPIES TALE
An
ambitious yuppie finally decided to take a holiday. 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 rowing boat wash up with you."
"Oh, this?"
replies the woman. "I made the rowing boat 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 in to 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 rowing boat 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. Two shells honed to a hollow ground edge are fastened on to its end
inside of a swivel mechanism.
"This woman is amazing," he muses.
"What next?" When he returns, she greets him wearing nothing but
vines, strategically positioned, and smelling faintly of gardenias. She beckons
for him to sit down next to her.
"Tell me," she begins, suggestively,
slithering closer to him, "we've been out here for a really long time.
You've been lonely. There's something I'm sure you really feel like doing right
now, something you've been longing for all these months? You know..." She
stares into his eyes. He can't believe what he's hearing: "You
mean...?", he swallows excitedly, "...I can check my e-mail from
here...?"