Message in a Bottle

While driving to work this morning, I heard the radio DJ relate a recent "message in a bottle" story. Apparently about a year ago, off the coast of Oregon, a ten-year-old boy tossed a message in a bottle into the Pacific Ocean. Weeks ago, a 9-year-old girl in Hawaii found it.

The boy Thomas Craig never expected his bottle to arrive safely in anyone's hands. In an interview with West Hawaii Today newspaper, he said "I couldn't believe someone had found it. I was shocked. When I threw it overboard, it hit the top of my grandpa's boat so I thought it broke and sank. The chances of someone finding it seemed like a once-in-a-million type thing."

In Kailua-Kona, Hawaii, little Trinity Ballesteros  saw the bottle washed up on the beach. The note inside read: "Dear finder of my message, my name is Thomas and I live in Oregon. I'm ten years old and this week I'm salmon fishing deep in the ocean. I would like to hear from you."

Trinity responded (via email) to Thomas, who had included his mom's email address. Since then, the two plan to become pen pals - of the digital variety. 

Awwwwww ... how sweet.

I'm sure that when Hollywood makes this into a movie, the story would have these two kids grow up, fall in love, fight various challenges to their union and eventually live happily ever after. 

In this age of email and Facebook and Twitter, something as primitive as a message-in-a-bottle holds a certain fascination for me. What are the chances that a bottle randomly tossed into the sea would actually be found by someone at all? 

My question to YOU today is this. If you were to send a message inside a bottle, what would you write on that piece of paper?