"I just wouldn't bathe. Not if I didn't want to be thirsty."
The captain smiled. "Now how about this," he said. "Let's say you've built yourself a house. Quite a nice house. Taken you a long time to build it. Then the foundation gives out for some reason, and your whole house collapses before your eyes. What would you do?"
Cleveland blinked. "Cry, I guess."
"Then what?"
"What could I do? Build another house, I suppose."
"I see." The captain leaned over the desk and made a notation on the paper before him. Then he looked up and said:
"Are you afraid of bats?"
"What?"
"Bats. You know, those winged things."
"I don't know. I don't think I've ever really seen one. Except in pictures, of course."