“Did you hear this one, Richard?” Kevin asks me at the end of today’s lighthouse tour. “The other day on the whale watch this guy come to the galley and asks Todd for two bottles of water. He’s maybe 50, bearded, he looks like… well, basically the guy’s a hick. So Todd get out two waters, puts them on the counter, and suddenly the guy snarls at him, ‘American water not good enough for you people?’
“ ‘What?’ Todd says; he can’t figure out what’s going on. Then he looks at the water sitting on the counter. Two bottles of Poland Spring. ‘Why don’t you people buy American, instead of this Polish crap?’ the hick wants to know, at which point Todd realizes he really doesn’t want to get into a discussion with him….”


