practice bad writing

The girl stood on the burning deck with her personal floatation device slipped over her neck and she wondered why they were called personal flotation devices instead of life preservers like they used to be called, because if she had to jump in the water it would be a life preserver but then of course she supposed it was going to help her float so it was a floatation device and life savers were those men in skimpy bathers or the lollies that looked like life preservers.