”“SV Sailbait switching to channel 9.” Channel 9 is the boat calling channel. It’s supposed to be ON all the time and loud enough for the watc...-stander to hear over the wind or waves. The Coast Guard uses channel 9 to request inspection.The Boat Basin is what passes for a Marina on Guam. The fishing boats dock there to hawk their catches and the stray voyager can find a dock there. We were a stray voyager.Fans on, two minutes, fire up the diesel ... check over the side for water from the. And now I hear you tell him he’s getting better. What the hell was I SUPPOSED to think? You know, I still have that old cell phone. The video I took of you two, along with the pictures are the only thing on it. It’s seared into my head, you telling him that you had never had it so good. It’s all there! Want to see it?’ I was really getting pissed at her, and at myself, for not being able to let her go. ‘Please, just hear me out. After it all came out, all our old friends turned against me.. And she was blue, huh?" Ricky grinned at me."With tits that taste like rootbeer!" Danny giggled and I frowned at them."Shut-up," I said."You're so full of it, Matt." Ricky slugged me in the arm."Fuck you!" I punched him in the thigh."Knock it off back there!" Mrs. Hailey, our English teacher, turned around from the whiteboard she was writing on. "Mr. Ford, is there a problem?"She was staring at me and I shook my head."Good ... Now, the difference between a simile and a metaphor is..."Blah blah. The sucker didn’t taste anything like it should have. That’s when I looked over and saw my younger brother Danny holding the sucker stick and behind him, my mother, with this horrific expression on her face. She turned and yelled down the hallway. ‘Vic, get out here quick!’ Seconds later my dad, still in boxers and a tee shirt, appeared in the kitchen doorway. ‘Danny ate the sucker with the Taro Ant Poison on it,’ she screamed. My dad made a frantic call to our family doctor. ‘Dr. Zawarski.