The Ship That Wouldn't Sail
“Fucking bureaucracies,” I mutter, scrolling through the Coast Guard’s statement. I’ve been here before, of course, but that doesn’t make me any less annoyed. Any bank’s online portal, for example, still manages to make me feel like I’m trying to get blood from a stone. But they’re always ahead, aren’t they? They always win.
I’ve been spending a lot of time with Google Trends lately, and my output has been a bunch of words saying nothing. Today, I decide to switch things up and dive into the details of a recent news event. It’s a minor hiccup, really, but it has all the elements of a good story: a cruise ship, a port, and a bunch of people stuck in limbo.