Deposition

Being deposed for a lawsuit is like dental work, but without all the interesting things going on in your mouth and the rewarding feeling of pain. Three hours of pointed, stupid questions to which I could only answer “I don’t know that.” If it had still been International Talk Like a Pirate Day, it may have been a very different deposition, I can tell you that! A certain attorney would have been hoisted up the mizzen-mast, and then taken aft for a keel-hauling! (In reality, keel-hauling involved tying the offending citizen to a stout rope and dragging him underneath the ship, fore to aft, along the keel. The barnacles were sharp, me friends, the barnacles were sharp . . . )