I must run away

I have been on the boat, what, two days? I cannot stay. This is misery. This is a very expensive learning experience. Why can I never find just the normal people on a normal boat acting normal ways, when I crew? I see them all around me. They sit in their cockpits and laugh. They greet each other with smiles. They visit each other. No one will visit J Friends. They roll their eyes and rush away when J Friends dinghys into the marina, just to not have to hear them bicker.

I have a hard time finding normalcy.

I decide I must leave. What will I do? The island is very expensive. I can't afford to change my tickets. AA wants hundreds. But I can't afford a hotel for two weeks. I'm in a bit of a pickle.

I decide I will get Vern and Linda to drop me off at the marina. I will tell everyone who comes past why I am a crew Orphan. Someone will take me in. Or someone will have a suggestion.

Something will happen.

I tell Linda I must leave. We have moved now to an anchorage in a national park. There is no dock or marina here. There is no place for me to sit as an orphan. I will have to stay for two days until we return to the original marina.

Linda feels bad. I try to suggest, gently, that her life would be happier if she could find a way not to yell at Vern all the time, and not to talk to
ME about HIM every minute when she is NOT yelling at HIM.

She says she will give this a try. She says if I have to leave she'll feel really bad because she knows it's an angry, sad boat. She knows this is getting very expensive for me.

And Maybe they should warn incoming crew, she says, about the atmosphere on the boat. I try to sound only mildly enthusiastic when I agree.

She is really not so bad. When she's not yelling at Vern, she has good stories. She's actually pretty funny and interesting.

In the meantime, we will spend a couple of days at this park, and then return to the original marina. Decisions will be made then.