Anyone *really* been stranded on an island?

[JohnGalt2004]

I was.

Well, not really stranded. I spent over a year living on a tiny island halfway between Alaska an Russia. I went for over a whole year without seeing a stoplight, or any commercial development for that matter. There were about a hundred people, no monsters, and no one got kidnapped.

What was weird is that the Air Force had a base on another island, about a thousand miles away. They had a three hole golf course.

[Lady Zoltar]

WHO IS JOHN GALT?

:p

[melshutson]

No, but I was stranded in an elevator in a totally deserted building on a weekend for about 45 minutes when the power went out. No power, no working phone, no one to help. Fortunately, the power came back on and I got out. Not quite the same as being stranded on a deserted island but makes you appreciate how dependent we are on technology.

[walkingcarpet23]

I got stranded outside of my house in the freezing cold before...

That really has nothing to do with anything, but boy did it suck. I tried picking locks, getting in through windows, kicking down doors, everything. Then finally my father returned home. What an adventure.

[lachme]

I was stranded once in the mountains for a day when my car broke down. Luckily, there was a tiny little berg there that consisted of basicly a gas station/repair shop, a grocery store/video rental, and...a golf course. Seriously.

I'm sensing a pattern here...

[jekelish]

oh, who HASNT been stranded on a deserted island. i roped a couple of tortoises with hair from my back and rode them to freedom.

(thats for the PotC fangirls out there)

:hat

[morbius47]

Ah, I remember my days on the desert island....good times.

It's where I first developed the midget alter-ego of mine.

[rosalind711]

no, but I have been lost in the woods in Kentucky before. In some ways that may be worse.

[Rene]

also been lost in the woods in a white out as a child.. not cool.. I thought I saw morbscaleta there, weird.

[Lady Zoltar]

I thought I saw morbscaleta there

...that's the funniest damn thing I've heard all day!

[cccourt]

I have waited to see what others would post here before coming forward.

Some of you know that I defend the sudden weather changes, etc. in the Pacific...and general areas.

Many years ago, there were a group of us who would go to uninhabited islands (off Kota Kinabalu--island of Borneo) for the day. We cooked, waterskied, etc...and would spend the day. Well...one day..one of the motor boats was having problems...and we had a guy who was taxiing several groups out to the island. There were three of us who went first...i among them....and a huge storm blew in. We were trapped for 6 hours. I thought I would freeze to death. No boats could get in...we had no shelter..but for trees...it was awful. When I think of scenarios like LOST, I recall my brush with being a castaway.
ccc

[edens demise]

Can't say I've ever been lost on an island before. Lost in general sure. Lost in the city yep. But never stranded on an island.

Once when I was in about 8th grade and had to go to CCD (religous) classes for my communion my mom forgot to pick me up afterwards.

I mean really, how can you forget your child?

[PlaneJane22]

I've been stranded on my way to an island. I was in the seventh grade and decided to canoe to this island and well, not much of a canoer, got caught by the wind and ended up canoeing in circles until I was rescued by a wind surfer. Did I mention I was in the seventh grade? And completely mortified. Now lets never speak of this again.

[Lockeness Monster]

I use to work at the Astrodome in Houston. Many people don't know that under the lower seats there is another section notopen to the public. There are actually batting cages down there. I was a runner I would run cash between concessions and went this way to avoid the obvious. One time durring a break I took a nap down there. When I woke up the game was over and everone had left. THis sectuion was locked and I was trapped. I was there 16 hours before security heard me. Sucked. I was 16. My boss also fired me the next shift because of so called perfomance issues.

I remember being quite scared that I would die of thirst.

[cccourt]

Okay Lockeness wins. That is the worst!!