furry mice

Furry mice

Many years ago, I was in Houston (Texas) to victualize 
a new cargo ship, back then a ship carried a large crew 
for all the functions needed.
The ship chandler was keen to show me his enormous 
freezer, beef, mutton, pork, and chicken, he also sold 
horse meat, but not to the Nordic or the British for 
who eating horseflesh was akin to eating your
relatives.
However, the Frenc, the Belgians, and the Dutch had 
no such hangups, as did ships with flags from eastern
countries bothered by such sentiment.
 He told me they had come over furry mice alive and
well and breeding, I asked to see one of these creatures
they had killed them- after all, it- is- about vermin
I had a mental picture of them looking like aggressive 
but tiny polar bears biting my finger when I try to 
catch one of them, or look like black bears as long as
they didn't look like rats.
Shipping in Norway was big business, employed 
about 50 to 60 thousand people, but when the flag 
was internationalized, seafaring history ended 
In our time, modern ships are nearly fully automatic 
 only a handful of computer readers are needed 
and for food, a drone delivers hamburgers with hot 
fries and soft drinks.
This is the ultimate goal of all industries to function 
without staff, selling goods to the unemployed?

Copyright © Jan Hansen | Year Posted 2024

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