Likely Jan Lukas@likelyjanlukas@mstdn.ca
@rachel@norfolk.social
Again, I live nowhere near a sea or ocean. I've never seen an actual #sextant in real life, just ones in movies or illustrations.
And those sextants were always shiny #brass, not #plastic!
But now that I understood the object's purpose, I also realised that #plastic was an excellent #medium for using in a #boat or #ship: it won't rust or corrode from #water or #salt.
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Likely Jan Lukas@likelyjanlukas@mstdn.ca
@rachel@norfolk.social
I decided to buy it. It was less than $5 #Canadian so not a big deal for an impulse purchase.
A few minutes later I came across the #sextant's box, complete with a carved-#foam interior, so old that the foam was starting to crumble to dust.
The box was priced separately, at something like $12.
When I went to the cashier, I showed that the two items clearly belonged together and could I get a discount on them as a single item? The manager let me have both for the price of the box.
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