>>
>>
>> There was this male engineer, on a cruise ship in the Caribbean
>> for  the first time.  It was wonderful, the experience of his
>> life.  He was  being waited on hand and foot.  But, it did not
>> last.  A Hurricane came up unexpectedly.  The ship went down
>> almost instantly.
>> 
>> The man found himself, he knew not how, swept up on the shore of
>> an island. There was nothing else anywhere to be seen.  No person,
>> no supplies, nothing.  The man looked around.  There were some
>> bananas and coconuts, but that was it.  He was desperate, and
>> forlorn, but decided to make the best of it. So for the next four
>> months he ate bananas, drank coconut juice and mostly looked to
>> the sea mightily for a ship to come to his rescue.
>> 
>> One day, as he was lying on the beech stroking his beard and
>> looking  for a ship, he spotted movement out of the corner of his
>> eye.  Could it be true, was it a ship?  No, from around the corner
>> of the island came this rowboat. In it was the most gorgeous woman
>> he had ever seen, or at least seen in 4 months.  She was tall,
>> tanned, and her blond hair flowing in the sea breeze gave her an
>> almost ethereal quality.  She spotted him also as he was waving and
>> yelling and screaming to get her attention.  She rowed her boat
>> towards him.
>> 
>> In disbelief, he asked, "Where did you come from?  How did you get
>>   here"?
>> 
>> She said, "I rowed from the other side of the island.  I landed
>>   on this island when my cruise ship sank"
>> 
>> "Amazing", he said, "I didn't know anyone else had survived.  How
>>   many of you are there?  Where, did you get the rowboat?  You must
>>   have been really lucky to have a rowboat wash-up with you?"
>> 
>> "It is only me", she said, "and the rowboat didn't wash up,
>>   nothing else did."
>> 
>> "Well then", said the man, "how did you get the rowboat?"
>> I made the rowboat out of raw material that I found on the
>>   island, replied  the woman.  The oars were whittled from Gum tree
>>   branches,  I wove the bottom from Palm branches, and the sides
>>   and stern came from a Eucalyptus tree".
>> 
>> "But, but, asked the man, what about tools and hardware, how did
>>   you do that?"
>> 
>> "Oh, no problem, replied the woman, on the south side of the
>>   island there is a very unusual strata of alluvial rock exposed.
>> 
>>   I found that If I fired it to a certain temperature in my kiln,
>>   it melted into forgeable ductile iron.  I used that for tools,
>>   and used the tools to make the hardware.  But, enough of that,
>>   she said.  Where do you live?"
>> 
>> At last the man was forced to confess that he had been
>>   sleeping on the beach.
>> 
>> "Well, let's row over to my place, she said."  So they both got
>>   into the rowboat and left for her side of island.
>> 
>> 
>> The woman easily rowed them around to a wharf that led to the
>> approach to her place.  She tied up the rowboat with a beautifully
>> woven hemp rope. They walked up a stone walk and around a Palm
>> tree, there stood an exquisite bungalow painted in blue and white.
>> 
>> "It's not much, she said, but I call it home.  Sit down please,
>> would you like to have a drink?"
>> "No, said  the man, one more coconut juice and I will puke."
>> 
>> "It won't be coconut juice, the woman replied, I have a still,
>> how about a Pina Colada?  Trying to hide his continued
>> amazement, the man accepted, and they sat down on her couch to
>> talk.
>> 
>> 
>> After a while, and they had exchanged their stories, the woman
>> asked, "Tell me, have you always had a beard?"
>> 
>> "No", the man replied, "I was clean shaven all of my life, and
>>   even on the cruise ship".
>> 
>> "Well if you would like to shave, there is a man's razor upstairs
>> in the cabinet in the bathroom." So, the man, no longer
>> questioning anything, went upstairs to the bath  room. There in
>> the cabinet was a razor made from a bone handle, two shells honed
>> to a hollow ground edge were fastened on to its end inside of a
>> swivel mechanism.  The man shaved, showered and went back down
>> stairs..
>> 
>> "You look great, said the woman, I think I will go up and slip
>> into something more comfortable."  So she did.
>> 
>> And, the man continued to sip his Pina Colada.  After a short
>> time,  the woman returned wearing fig leafs strategically
>> positioned and smelling faintly of gardenia.
>> 
>> "Tell me, she asked, we have both been out here for a very long
>> time with no companionship.  You know what I mean.  Have you been
>> lonely, is there anything that you really miss?  Something that
>> all men and woman need. Something that it would be really nice to
>> have right now."
>> 
>> "Yes there is, the man replied, as he moved closer to the woman
>> while fixing a winsome gaze upon her,  "Tell me ... Do you
>> happen to have an Internet connection?"