Ok, so I know this isn’t the usual FWO-type of post, but I felt compelled to write because I have been absolutely fascinated by all the news stories this week about the Somali pirates (yep, you heard me, PIRATES) who commandeered a Ukranian cargo ship loaded with weapons last month.  The pirates are now demanding millions in ransom for the boat, its contents and its crew. 

Now, I’d heard that piracy was on the rise again in recent years, but GEEZ- I mean who woulda thought that being a PIRATE would be a viable career move in this day and age?  I mean, up until now, the only real (well, real in my world) pirates I really knew much about were Captain Jack Sparrow (Johnny Depp will you marry me? I’m still waiting….), Captain Morgan (you know the rum– or maybe you don’t and maybe I’m just a lush??), and my all time favorite pirate-turned-fast-food-chef, Long John Silver (ooh, I can just taste those greasy hushpuppies now!).  (Oh yeah, there’s also Long Dong Silver but I’ll take the high road and just let you insert your own raunchy sex joke here.)

So when I started to hear more and more about this current pirate situation, and how pirates have raked in over $30 MIL in the last year alone, it really got my wheels spinning.  I mean, I gotta admit, I’m a little jealous.  I spent thousands of dollars going to school for a higher education, when apparently all I needed to do was go to my local Party City and buy the best Pirates of the Caribbean Halloween costume they had, jazz up my pirate gear with a few cute accessories (I mean, come on, I’d at least have to be a fashion forward pirate), throw on some Johnny Depp-esque eye liner, practice up on my pirate lingo (Yar, matey!), climb aboard a Celebrity Cruise ship, and I could have been set for life. 

Don’t you just hate it when other people come up with million dollar ideas before you do? DAMN.

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