"Right then, go on ahead of me. I'll be fine. No worries. I can just lash a couple of deck chairs together or something. Never been adverse to a little swim, good for the constitution y'know. Here, let me hand you that life preserver, madam. The deck chair raft I'm building? Certainly. Take it. I insist! It's really just a first attempt and frankly I'm a bit embarrassed at the way its come out. You'd be doing me a favor, really, taking it off my hands.
An open seat on the lifeboat? Oh, no thanks. Never really liked boats, rowing, all that. Actually, I have no idea why I even thought of crossing the ocean on this one, really not my sort of thing. No, no lifeboats for me. I'd much rather grab onto a sturdy bit of flotsam or jetsam. Nothing like the old flotsam for floating out of a shipwreck I always say."