I began my career on a tugboat as a deckhand.

One of my responsibilities was grub shopping. 

Now getting 3 weeks worth of grub for 5 to 7 people is a lot of chow and that also includes cleaning supplies, toilet paper, paper towels and God knows what else.

That means more than one cart and 7 or 8 was pretty routine. I think I remember filling 10 carts one or more times.

Now a grub load like that draws questions from people and when you say the word 'tugboat' that more often than not draws a bunch of additional questions and can tie up a lot of time which I generally didn't have.

Sometimes when people asked I'd tell them I had 19 (or 24) children which would lead them to ask how I the hell I had fathered so many children.

"Didn't your mother ever have a little talk with you and tell you where babies come from?" I would reply.

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