If you do this and you express yourself to your sister who is in her own personal hell, marrying this guy, And she's got these three little kids and she's just looking for a life raft.
And then once everyone left, we stood around the table, and my brother George opened up the box, and started pulling out the life raft, portions of his parachute, portions of his flight suit.
But the question is, how do you handle an adult child who is using you as a human life raft to keep them afloat while the waters of their life feel rocky?
I once asked Eddie Rickenbacker what was the biggest lesson he had learned from drifting about with his companions in life rafts for twenty-one days, hopelessly lost in the Pacific.
我曾经问过 Eddie Rickenbacker,他在生筏上与同伴漂流 21 天,无可药地迷失在太平洋中,从中学到最重要一课是什。
The crew survival engineering team works on emergency equipment like life rafts, breathing systems, protective suits, even the diapers astronauts would put on during a catastrophic event.
They had 20-man life rafts that would carry, had four of those 20-man life rafts, and they had extra life vests, they had rations for people for several days.
There is enough space for food, water and oxygen supplies, while a multipurpose seat, which comes packed with a parachute and a life raft, functions as a toilet.