STORY TIME

Today was the first day of unannounced story time or share time with the seniors at the enrichment center. One of the men stood and told a wonderful story about when he was a very young man.  Seems somehow he had found work on a boat and ended up one day on a tugboat.  When they got far out into the ocean a storm came up suddenly as they can out there without notice.  Eventually, the tugboat capsized and they were in freezing water.  Luckily they had time to get on life preserving equipment.  They found a ladder from the boat floating on the water and all four of them grabbed onto it and wound their arms through it.  That kept them together.  The man telling the story had grabbed a flashlight and when they bobbed above the water he shined a light around in a circle and therefore had help on shore which was 20 miles away.  They were believed to have been dead because they were in the freezing water for 30-35 minutes.  That story lead to some of the ladies telling why they are afraid of swimming. It was a great time and they all enjoyed it immensely.  We had 9 attendance, not bad count for not having been advertised nor announced ahead of time.  Oh, yea, by the way the man telling about the sinking of the tug boat cannot swim.