Anyone who has spent their entire life at sea knows how to accurately predict the weather. For example, here's a story about an old retired captain, Fin Eldridge. When he retired, he started a farm in Eastham and began growing turnips. But all his long life he commanded a coaster.
So, one day Captain Eldridge was late for dinner. The wife looked out the window, but saw only a sea of green tops, moving in waves from a light breeze. Then, like a shadow, ran over this green sea, and immediately the out of breath Captain Eldridge flew into the house. He rushed to the telephone, picked up the receiver, turned the handle and shouted:
- Give it to Chatham! Urgently!.. Hello, Chatham? Give me Sam Payne, the postmaster!.. Hello, Sam! My cap just flew off my head. A light breeze carries it directly south, to the coastal reefs. I calculated that it would fly past you in exactly fourteen minutes. I have a request for you: send it back by tomorrow's mail. Agreed, Sam?
You can rest assured that Captain Eldridge's cap flew over Sam's house in Chatham exactly fourteen minutes after he hung up the telephone. And the next day Captain Eldridge received it back by morning mail.
Translated from Russian · original on wisdomlib.ru