Editor’s Note: Poor Dora thought she had her own blog, but she has been “demoted” to space here. Shhh! Don’t tell her. She’s living in her own little world.
Dora is so lucky to have some correspondents who pass along letters to her. Jamie, at Duward Discussion, shared this letter with me.
Dear Dora,
I asked my girlfriend Izzy for a little cash to buy a few boats for a business venture and promised to pay her back with lots of interest. Now I’m sitting in the middle of the ocean going nowhere fast and in danger of sinking fast. What’s my next step?
Chris
Dear Chris,
Now isn’t that just like a man?
You start out on a trip without asking for directions AND you borrowed money from your rich girlfriend. Now, you want to get sympathy? You are such a cliché .
Aren’t you the one who said, and I quote, “For the execution of the voyage to the Indies, I did not make use of intelligence, mathematics or maps.”
Obviously.
What did you expect? Now you have the sinking feeling that you are dead in the water. You want sympathy? I have none. You want encouragement?
- Don’t give up the ship.
- You can’t give up, that’s not the American Way.
- This country wasn’t founded by quitters!
- Get out of the doldrums.
- Sometimes you have to take the long way around to get to where you are going!
- The third time is the charm!
- Put on your big girl panties and deal with it!
You see, I can do clichés, too!
As for your “next step?” Let’s hope it is not off the gangplank. You want my advice, but as another famous captain (Captain James T. Kirk, an enterprising fellow, if ever there was one) said, “One of the advantages of being Captain is being able to ask for advice without necessarily having to take it.”
I don’t expect that you will follow my advice, but I’ll tell you this: Stop acting as if you were the “Great Admiral of the Ocean.” You can’t sit back and wait for the world to come to you. Sail on, sailor. If you are lucky, you will meet your goal, and maybe get a holiday named after you. Pay that girlfriend back, or you might end up in the slammer. Oh, and, when you reach that far away shore, be careful about accepting gifts from strangers. You might find yourself with a “gift that keeps on giving!”
Kiss, Kiss,
Dora
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