So my office manager lives on an island. It’s not that uncommon around here. She takes the ferry in the morning to come to work. And the same thing to get home. Well, last month the ferry went up for service. So, rather than stay home and say ‘whawha, I’m trapped and can’t get off the island to get to work whawha’ She did what any reasonable adult with a decent work ethic would do. She used her little open top speed boat in the cold rain, or fog, or high winds, for half an hour and boated across to the bigger island that has a bridge and where she, with prior planning had left her car. Took the car then drove to work. Doing the reverse on the way home. The bonus being she didn’t have to wait for the ferry, or worry about missing the ferry. The downside is the rain,fog, high winds and large cold waves. She did this for the 3 weeks that the ferry was in dry dock, as did many of her neighbors I assume. I have this image of a bunch of people at 6am in little open top speed boats like in Indiana Jones and the last Crusade zipping their way to work in suits and blouses and briefcases.
On the last day she needed to boat across she missed the boat. It seems that when she attempted to enter the boat on that furiously foggy Friday morning her left foot decided it quite liked being on the dock and decided to stay. This of course caused an argument between itself, and her her right foot. Eventually her right foot decided it was tired, the arguing was getting them nowhere. Pleased with itself, it stepped into the boat in a jaunty way. Upset over the apparent dismissal, her left foot decided to throw a pout, and planted itself firmly on the deck like a 2 year old. Not wanting the left foot get the better of her, the left foot stepped out of the boat, though better of it, and then attempted to get into an apparently different boat altogether. The left foot had then decided it was not getting anywhere with the pouting and decided it wanted to be the head for a while and rose to the occasion at the expense of the right legs ACL and knee joint.
This is how I am currently working a 40 hour week.