George was a pirate, but he wasn’t a very good pirate.
He worried a lot about things, like what others thought about him or whether he left the stove on before going to work.
“You live on a ship,” said the captain. “You don’t have a goddamned stove.”
Every time George started a sentence with “What if I forgot to…” the captain reminded him that he didn’t have a car to park in the wrong zone, or a smoke alarm to put fresh batteries in.
“Shut up, George,” said the captain.
George worried what the captain thought about him now.