Posting from Kathleen on De Ja Vu
“The Ultimate Insult”
I’ll never forget the three overnights that it took for us to sail from Florida to Puerto Rico. We had our six year old daughter and three-month old son with us. Because I was nursing him, I couldn’t take any medication for seasickness. It wasn’t long into the trip before I was overcome with nausea. For the entire three days, I lay in the bow berth with the two children. I didn’t eat or drink anything and when we finally made landfall, I was extremely weak. When I came up the companionway, my husband, George, was irritatingly recording my re-emergence into the land of the living with our video camera. He asked me to tell everybody “how I had enjoyed the crossing.” Trying to think of the worst insult I could hurl at the whole experience, I responded “I’d rather be in labor!” Any woman knows that if you’d rather be in labor than do something, it must be horrible.
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