Cedric, an engineer, is cruising the South Pacific, but, a cyclone springs up and sinks the ship. He is swept ashore: no one else, no food, no supplies, nothing.
He searches the island but only finds bananas and coconuts. For the next three months he is lonely and forlorn. He eats bananas, drinks coconut juice and longs for a ship to rescue him.
One day, he spots a rude boat coming from another island. On it is a pretty young woman. She is slim and tanned, and her hair flows in the sea breeze. He runs up to greet her on the beach. He asks excitedly, "Where you on the cruise ship?" "Yes!" she replies. "I was washed up on the other island. I built the boat from palm leaves. I whittled the oars from cedar wood. By the way I'm Susan."
"But--but," askes Cedric, "What did you use for tools?" "Oh, no problem," she replies, "On the south side of the island there is a stratum of alluvial rock. I found that if I fired it with charcoal in my kiln, it melted to form iron."
"But enough of that," she says. "Where do you live?" Cedric confesses that he had been sleeping on the beach.
"Let's row over to my place," she says. So they sit on the boat and Susan rows to her island. She ties the boat to a small jetty with a hemp rope. They walk up a cobbled path to a little bungalow. "It's not much," she says, "but I call it home. Would you like a drink?"
"No," Cedric answers, "One more drop of coconut juice and I will puke." "I have a still," she says, "How about a Pina Colada?" Trying to hide his amazement, Cedric accepts, and they sit together on a couch of seagull feathers.
Susan says, "Have you always had that beard and mustache?" "No," Cedric replies, "I was always clean shaven." "Well, if you would like to shave, and freshen up you are welcome to use the bathroom." Cedric, even more amazed, opens the bathroom door. In a cabinet is a razor with a bone handle clamping an oyster shell honed to a razor edge. After shaving and showering he returns to the sofa with Susan. "You look great," she says. "I think I will slip into something more comfortable."
Ten minutes later, Susan returns in a couple of banana leaves and the scent of gardenia. She asks, "Have you been lonely? Is there anything that you miss? Something that all men and women crave? Something that would be really nice to have right now?" "Yes, there certainly is," Cedric replies, and moves closer to her. "Tell me, do you have an Internet connection?"