Mama Kat Thursday: Boat Tales
The Mama Kat prompt I chose today concerned my experience "being on a boat." My best, most dramatic boat experience happened in 1978 when I was in the Air Force and assigned to Karamursel Air Base in Turkey. It was custom to be assigned a "sponsor" from the future location, who would meet me and show me around. I was a medic and she was an Airmen at the clinic I'd be working at. So I flew into Istanbul. It was near lunchtime and I'd been awake over 24 hours. My sponsor met me along with two friends she brought along, all medics as well. One was a guy and one was girl, who was their supervisor and would be mine, too. They hustled me and my baggage outside to the line of taxi's and haggled with the driver over the fare price, then when they agreed, we got in and drove off. They explained to me haggling over the price of anything was customary and expected---one never just paid the price asked for. So that was new. Then they took me to ...