Tyche
Copyright© 2020 by Old Man with a Pen
Chapter 24
Pandemonium.
Instant pause for the shock to stop and then ... chaos.
Then Unca Dave spoiled the whole thing, “Yes ... it was free ... but how much have you spent fixing it?”
I muttered, “$167,325.00.”
“What?” said David. “Speak up.”
“ONE HUNDRED SIXTY SEVEN THOUSAND, THREE HUNDRED TWENTY-FIVE DOLLARS and the cost of the lot.”
David gloated. “And WHY so much, Tyche?”
I stuck out my tongue and razzberried him, “She was sinking. At the city dock ... We got to her at the last possible second...”
“We?”
“Auntie Surprise and her Diesel Trash Pump ... but if I hadn’t noticed the whirlpool where the water was coming in and used an old Navy stunt to block the ingress ... water inflow ... we’d have lost her.”
“Stunt?”
“Trash bag ... couple of teeshirts and two willow wands ... Dropped them over the hole and tied off the the wands to the safety lines.”
“And where did you learn the ‘stunt’?”
“From a Hornblower book ... only they called it ‘fothering a sail’”
“What about...”
“I know, I know ... you did something similar with two fishing rods ... I didn’t have fishing rods and used what was handy.”
“Ok ... How come you spent so much?”
“Because Auntie Surprise put MY name on the title and I wouldn’t let YOU scrap her.”
“The money?”
“Trust fund ... for my education ... before you say it... $167,325.00 has been quite the education ... and it’s not done.”
“Alright ... let’s go aboard.”
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