comedy of errors

comedy of errors

after showers at the marina

Dave stopped by the bar to watch some basketball

so I took the shower bags back to the boat

and told him to order me a beer, I’d be right back

I hung up the towels

put the soap and shampoo away

pulled out some food for dinner

and was stepping back into the dinghy

when all hell broke loose

I dropped my iPad in the water!

couldn’t quite reach it (still floating)

so I jumped in after it

(so much for that shower!)

pulled myself out

tore off my wet clothes

went inside to inspect the damage

when I took the case off

I realized it wasn’t very wet

even better, it was still working!

so I dried it off thoroughly

opened a few apps just to make sure

powered it off and on again —

definitely working, whew!! —

and took a deep breath

then I took another quick shower

got dressed again

and it dawned on me I’d left the dinghy

with its line only loosely hung over a cleat

so I raced back outside

to see it had only drifted back a few yards

and was still attached —

whew! a second time

the dinghy and I finally made it back to the marina

where Dave was wondering what on earth had kept me

took the iPad along to keep an eye on it

and after I’d told him the whole story

it dawned on me the charging port 

probably got salt water inside it

so back we go to the boat to plug in the charging cord

and sure enough… no power

no amount of drying, blowing, wiping, dusting, air-brushing,

not even the rice-in-a-bag treatment, helped

and an online chat with Apple yielded only a —

bring it in next month when you get home

and maybe we can fix it

so for now,

the iPad is packed to go home

(16% of its power still left)

it’s not dead,

but its comatose

and may be terminally ill

guess I’ll stop by the marina office

and borrow some paperbacks

to read for the next month

monday 13 march

lent 2017

Penns Landing