Sometimes I share conversations that I've had / overheard on the ship. Let me tell you....sometimes they're bizarro! They always make me think of this snotty little phrase teenage me used to love, 'oh-my-gawd. my life is so weird'. Here's the latest My Life Is So Weird Moment... On the Bridge. Routine watch with idle chit chat.

Me: I've never gotten to the point where I can travel with just a carry on.

Shipmate: Travelling with no luggage is truly the way to go.

AB: I never travel with luggage. I just find places to bury my stuff.

Me: What do you mean?

AB: Whatever I don't need to travel with I double bag in garbage bags and bury it.

Me: Bury it how?

AB: I just find a place to dig a hole. I've found that the best place to dig holes is near railroads or in church yards....there are fewer people watching....

Me: Are you kidding me right now?!

AB: No.

Me: What do you dig your hole with? I mean, do you splurge on a shovel?

AB: Nah, I've found that digging holes with a sharp knife is actually a lot easier.

Me: Oh my god. That's bizzare.

AB: -blank stare-

Me: Do you have a lot of things buried?!

AB: Yah, I got stashes everywhere...I keep a notebook with all the places written down.

Me: Wow.

AB: That's why I like shipping out of Jacksonville instead of Houston. Houston has too much concrete and Jacksonville has sand.

AB wanders out onto the bridge wing.

I look at my Shipmate...

Me: Did we really just hear that right?

Shipmate: I think so...

Vocabulary: AB - Able Bodied Seaman - they are my watchstanders.

You can read more moments of weirdness here.