George was a pirate, but he wasn’t a very good pirate.
The captain kept him aboard mostly because George knew how to fix the air hockey table.
The motors burn out easily. Especially in the salty air of a pirate ship at sea.
No, George wasn’t all that handy with tools.
He’d broken the toaster, the microwave oven, and the ship-to-shore radio.
They tossed those overboard and bought new ones.
But he had a knack for repairing the air hockey table.
Click clack thwack, all night long. So noisy.
They tossed it overboard, too.
And didn’t buy a new one.