Comments on: Adult Diapers Restocked

By: Birdinhand

Birdinhand — Fri, 08 Jan 2010 01:05:08 +0000

Jude: Thanks. I’m glad you enjoy it. Please keep coming back and tell your friends. It gets lonely here in Shalampax.

By: Jude

Jude — Fri, 08 Jan 2010 00:59:02 +0000

I really appreciate the chuckle when I stop by your blog so thanks much for that. Your sense of humor cracks me up.

By: Birdinhand

Birdinhand — Fri, 08 Jan 2010 00:43:41 +0000

@David: I said that we average a ship a month. Sometimes two or three bunch up waiting for the weather to clear enough for us to build our temporary dock. We might then unload all of the bunched up ships within a single month. I also didn't say that Marie and MadMadMargo would have to wait that long, only that they might. It all depends on the weather. And, by waiting on the nearest island with reasonably clement weather and then helicoptering to a docked ship when the weather clears here, they've solved the waiting problem.

By: David

David — Thu, 07 Jan 2010 23:39:15 +0000

I am surprised to learn that, despite the weather that would have kept Marie and MadMadMargo sitting on a ship for months on end awaiting a weather-clearing that would allow docking, Shalampax receives ships on a monthly basis. I’m also surprised that every ship delivers adult diapers. I have much to learn about Shalampax it seems.

By: Birdinhand

Birdinhand — Thu, 07 Jan 2010 20:29:33 +0000

@David: We average one supply ship a month, not one a year. So the store needs only a 30-day supply. And two-a-day? What's the point of that? You might as well just go to the washroom. Most of us put one on in the morning and throw it out at night and load them up in-between. We can usually make it through the night without one. So, the store needs to stock only about 2000 x 30 or 60,000 to cover the month's requirement. As you know, sometimes ships are late docking because of the weather. That's why the store sometimes runs out, but because the ships come, but not necessarily dock, at regular intervals, that just means that the store is overstocked at other times.

By: David

David — Thu, 07 Jan 2010 19:51:41 +0000

I’m sure that is a great relief to everyone.

Although, out of curiosity, what constitutes an “ample supply”? Maybe half the population of Shalampax would be enjoying them; using two per day; That would be 4000 per day for all users and, given the large time gaps between ship arivals, a year’s supply would be 365 X 4000…??? That would be about 1.5 million diapers. Good thing that ship didn’t sink or the water of the ocean could be completely absorbed and the ship would never arrive.

So Birdinhand, what consitutes your computation of ample?