Now this is bugging out...
A story.
I used to work for a large multinational corporation. For quite a while I had an Armenian (by birth) boss who lived in Sweden.
When he was younger (a teen) and living in Armenia communist Russia took over his country... I'm not sure what happened to his parents but he found himself on his own.
He wanted out of Armenia. Russia had sealed off the borders.
This kid bribed a rail worker to seal him in a wooden shipping crate that was headed for Finland (or maybe it was Norway - anyway a free northern country). All he had with him in that crate was a handful of food and a few jugs of water. Obviously no bathroom.
The train trip lasted for days.
So here is this kid, all alone, in a nailed-shut wooden crate. It was dark. He did not know exactly where along his journey to freedom he was. He did not know if he would make it. He did not know if his arrangements at the far end to be let out would work. He might well find him self stuck in a crate in a train car in the dark for days, weeks, as death slowly took him.
He was around to tell the story decades later so his gamble paid off.
I'll leave you with his favorite toast:
"May it never get any worse than this!"
Use it sometime in honor of his great escape!
