Yesterday I brought a package to be shipped to Toledo "Next Day Air" to Wally, my friend and colleague at the DU Bookstore. At the very mention of Toledo, Wally was transported back to the days when he worked on an ore boat sailing the Great Lakes. Toledo was one of their regular stops, and a "bum" boat would always come out to meet them, selling every item imaginable, including beer. The ship's cook asked Wally to buy him a case of Schlitz, since he was preparing lunch and couldn't leave the galley. Wally did just that, not realizing the cook had a bit of a drinking problem. The cook proceeded to go on a major bender, depriving the crew of their meals. Everyone wondered how the cook could have possibly got hold of all that booze. Wally, of course, being no fool, wondered out loud the same thing. Later on, Wally served on either the Star of India (a full-rigged sailing ship) or the aircraft carrier U.S.S. Midway (I can never remember which), and you can rest assured he never made that same mistake again.
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