Tyche
Copyright© 2020 by Old Man with a Pen
Chapter 58
It was sudden ... and I wasn’t expecting it. In fact, it left me breathless.
I wasn’t happy. Very big surprise. I wasn’t happy.
I have money ... tons. I have youth.
I have my Grandmother’s body and her voice. I’m ... well ... Surprise might be more beautiful ... but I don’t know anybody my age ... maybe that’s it ... Alice is a year older ... half a year she’s two older ... Gawd! I’m a mess. I’m not thinking clearly.
The local buses have no bike racks ... you either ride the bus or you ride your bicycle ... can’t do both. But ... the bus will take you where you want to go. None of that FedA bull crap... we’ll get you to within a mile of where you want to go.. We left our bikes under the eagle eye of Corporal Mali.
The OTHER thing ... wave a bus down ... even in the middle of a block ... and they will STOP. Tell the driver your destination and they will let you off at the door ... and no time schedule ... catch as catch can. But there are many buses early and late. The cost? Seventy five cents a trip ... thirty eight cents students ... FIJI.
The bus took us to the devastation that is called the mooring ball field. The one eighty was mostly above water ... mostly. I could see the first row of port lights ... still had glass in ‘em.
The sad thing was the new Fountaine Pajot Samana 59 on the foredeck ... up-side down. That added a whole new dimension to the word, SALVAGE.
Paid for but uninsured. Four and a half million dollars ... sitting on top of an 18 million dollar boat.
All in... 498 wrecked boats in the Republic of Fiji. There were 98 visible ‘distressed’ yachts in the mooring basin ... so saith the Harbour Authority. Most of them were tightly packed against the north west shore.
“Come to see your boat?” She was dressed in the scarlet blouse and white skirt uniform of the Fiji Army ... and she couldn’t have been older than 20.
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