My captains made faster runs than ever and earned bigger bonuses, as did my supercargoes, who saw to it that my schooners did not loaf and dawdle along the way.
In order to further his mission, they had to be ready to go out, carrying "no money bag, no sack, no sandals." They weren't to dawdle along the way; they were to stay with the first person who offered them hospitality and never complain about the food.
There are certainly every day challenges on the daily commute between Saar and Sanad but I think I've got the number on the erratic antics of the many who enjoy a mobile phone chat, the ladies who dawdle along in the middle line of the highway day-dreaming about what colour their toenails should be painted and the Saudi speedsters hammering along towards the Causeway.
I can't bear going to supermarkets at the best of times and tend to whiz around them as if I'm on Supermarket Sweep but for some people, it's a meeting place, a place to chat in the aisles and dawdle along as if they have all the time in the world.
Incidentally, I believe in speed only where it is safe to do so and my licence is clean but will someone please remind those drivers who think that the speed limit on single carriageway is not 50mph that it is actually 60mph and that if they wish to dawdle along then they should allow faster traffic to overtake as slow drivers can cause others to take unnecessary risks.
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