The Nature of Stupidity!

As I sit here to type, I am looking around for a cushion to sit on. I have a very sore bottom. A painful posterior. Discomfort in the derriere.

‘Why are you in pain, Rachel’ I hear you all shouting! Well, it started with Ade getting a very painful head. Then me. And then a few other sore bits.

Looking up towards the doors when they’re closed
Looking down into the boat with the doors and hatch open

This morning, Ade got up and popped the engine on so we had hot water. (We can heat water through the engine, using the heating or with the immersion. The immersion only works when we are plugged into electricity at a marina; it was not cold enough to need the heating and the batteries needed a charge, so the engine was the best option.) He opened the doors to the stern but didn’t open the hatch because he wasn’t planning on keeping the doors open. Then a few minutes later he popped back to the stern to get some washing that was drying overnight on the stern. Forgetting that the stern hatch was still shut he walked straight into it. He came back into the boat looking very foggy, holding his head with a very large lump developing. I got him some ice and went the get the aforementioned washing. Guess what I did? Yup, I walked straight into the unopened hatch. It was such a hard thud it disorientated me and I fell down the steps, landing on my bum against a cupboard! We shared ice packs on our lumpy painful heads for quite a while before we could do anything!

I have been finding parts of me that hurt for the last few hours. My left shoulder. My lower back, my bottom. Which is why I am sitting on a cushion.

Someone said that the definition of stupidity is repeatedly doing the same thing and expecting different results. Like walking into a hatch, straight after someone else has walked into it! That really did knock some sense into me!

 

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Fluffy, one day old

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