(Part I expired)
After post #3398 on the 'Travel Planned' thread, I started looking to see if I actually
had taken a pic at the airport in Uganda......while vainly searching I came across this group pic, taken in 1966 aboard a Greek ship heading from Oz to Athens.
I'm on the right, hand in pocket, wearing the jacket of one of those 'ready in 30 seconds' suits custom made in Hong Kong - didn't have time to try it on at the tailor's, and when the ship had sailed I found the pants were too tight.
(The guy in the middle was a fireman from England, and the other guy was from L.A.)
But there's a story about the older guy, (who'd be long dead now I presume), on the far left of the pic; he was a writer from (what was then) Rhodesia, and he & I shared a cabin. (On the older ships there were bunk beds and no ensuite toilets/showers, they were communal and down the passageway.)
So...we were in the thralls of a major storm, the tail end of a cyclone, and the ship is lurching from side to side and prow to stern, as they are wont to do in bad weather.
It's night, and I hear these plaintive calls, (there was a substantial amount of alcohol consumption aboard); I opened one eye and he's obviously trying to leave the cabin to visit the head...NOT an easy task given the way the ship is bouncing around......so, combining desperation with innovation, (I'm still pretending to be asleep), he urinates in his shoes, (thankfully not MINE).
We never discussed it, and I doubt he was ever aware of being observed.
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