Story of a Shipwrecked Sailor (2014)
“For eight months we had been in Mobile, Alabama, where the electronic equipment and gunnery of the Caldas were being repaired. While on liberty we did what all sailors do ashore: we went to the movies with our girlfriends and afterward met at a bar in the port, the Joe Palooka, where we drank whiskey and sometimes started brawls.
My girlfriend was named Mary Address, and I met her through another sailor’s girlfriend after I had been in Mobile for two months. Mary had some fluency in Spanish, bu...t I don’t think she ever understood why my friends called her, in jest, “María Dirección.” Each time we had shore leave I took her to the movies, although she preferred going out for ice cream. With my half-English and her half-Spanish we could just about make ourselves understood, but we always did understand each other, at the movies or eating ice cream.
There was only one time I didn’t go out with Mary: the night we saw The Caine Mutiny. Some of my friends had heard it was a good movie about life aboard a minesweeper.MoreLess
My girlfriend was named Mary Address, and I met her through another sailor’s girlfriend after I had been in Mobile for two months. Mary had some fluency in Spanish, bu...t I don’t think she ever understood why my friends called her, in jest, “María Dirección.” Each time we had shore leave I took her to the movies, although she preferred going out for ice cream. With my half-English and her half-Spanish we could just about make ourselves understood, but we always did understand each other, at the movies or eating ice cream.
There was only one time I didn’t go out with Mary: the night we saw The Caine Mutiny. Some of my friends had heard it was a good movie about life aboard a minesweeper.MoreLess
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