The boat is down
I live on an island this island is serviced by a certain number of ferry boats. At least, it was until a week or two ago. Right now two of them are tide up for repairs. Getting another boat in on short notice is not possible. And so we make do with other methods. Apparently one of the boats or ships collided with the wharf. The other one has motors that simply stopped working. I had not realized how risky it could be to take that way of getting around. I mean, when we had a major fire about a year or two ago I said to myself that would not be a good place to be then, the government was able to find a loan boat. Loan as in on loan from another company. But there is a limited possibility to borrow a big boat. I keep imagining a scenario where you load your car on the ferry and then the ferry sinks. I never used to think in those terms. I have a suspicion that maintenance is more of an issue than the companies want to let on. Should I switch to an airplane? No they also follow this guy period. We do have a bridge that we can take when the wind is not blowing too hard. All of this points Two reasons There have been fairies involved in our local transportation system for my whole life. However the idea of both boats being out of service for more than a few hours at a time was not considered to be a possibility. I am surprised to find that our whole method is based on something as easy to stop as running into the wharf. It must have been quite a collision. And I imagine that the wharf is barely bruised. It is a good thing that I do not need to get to the other side of the water anytime soon. I guess that travel is now something optional rather than always possible. I did mention a bridge but even there we can be locked in the house if the wind blows too hard and this is a windy place. Maybe I should just surround myself with nice things and leave the rest of the world to do what it does. There used to be a standing joke about how the rest of the nation was cut off from us. Less of a joke and more of a realistic statement of fact.
