Probably not a Lit Story.

[Five_Inch_Heels]

This thread got me thinking: https://forum.literotica.com/threads/radio-question.1660030/unread

What happens if you get assigned to such a remote station with someone you can NOT stand to be around? You're there for a month or more, no transportation due for the duration.

I've been exposed to people I couldn't get away from fast enough. Five minutes was too much. (I'm sure they felt the same.)

Suppose it's even a dorm setup where you don't have private sleeping quarters.

 

[CalBishForNow]

In real life, there aren't too many instances of those these days, and most of them are probably in the military or intelligence community, so it's something like "put up with them or face a court-martial or something even further removed from the normal legal system."

If you wanted to create that situation for your characters in a modern, i.e. post-satellite-Internet setting, the best way is probably with a survivalist/isolationist/prepper who gets an unwelcome guest (hiker who got over their head? Fugitive on the run?) just before they get stranded by weather or something similar (cabin in the winter getting snowed in? Road getting washed out in the rainy season? The survivalist is on an island and the guest was in a shipwreck?)

I just watched Sam Raimi's Send Help a couple weeks ago. Good movie. It's not a spoiler to say that two people who can't stand each other get stranded together like that. The plot thickens.

 

[Rob_Royale]

Here's the perfect setting. Back in the days before GPS, we used a system called Loran for ocean navigation. It required high power HF stations all over the world for proper triangulation.
These stations were often very remote and manned in the US and some foreign countries by U.S. Coast Guard.
The ones in the Alutian Islands were on tiny islands. Others in Hawaii, Philippines, the Azores, etc. One was in Havre, Montana that was prone to getting snowed in for long periods.
If you want to be stranded with someone you don't like, this is a good choice.

 

[Kelliezgirl]

The murder on that ice flow is the extreme example of what happens when you can't get along.

There probably is a little story there though... 2 women, 3 or 4 men. Relationships form, break up, jealousy and rivalry build...

 

[onehitwanda]

https://www.countryfile.com/go-outdoors/historic-places/smalls-lighthouse

 

[KittyOfSteele]

I'll probably end up taking a liking to them, just like everybody else would. We're social creatures. Stress, codependency, trauma bonding, empathy... Maybe I won't be friends with them forever after that, but I'll understand better, and who knows... we might stay in touch. Worst thing it could happen is a slow burn. When people are stuck into situations like that, they have to find a way to work with each other. I've seen it happen.

 

[IWroteThis]

Sounds like a Hallmark movie, and they'll realize they love each other about 72 minutes in.

 

[PennyThompson]

https://www.countryfile.com/go-outdoors/historic-places/smalls-lighthouse

I was going to say, this is basically the plot of David Eggars' The Lighthouse

 

[JGittes]

Here's the perfect setting. Back in the days before GPS, we used a system called Loran for ocean navigation. It required high power HF stations all over the world for proper triangulation.
These stations were often very remote and manned in the US and some foreign countries by U.S. Coast Guard.
The ones in the Alutian Islands were on tiny islands. Others in Hawaii, Philippines, the Azores, etc. One was in Havre, Montana that was prone to getting snowed in for long periods.
If you want to be stranded with someone you don't like, this is a good choice.

I've been to the remains of the Loran station on Adak in the Aleutians. Interesting place. It's excluded from world hunting records for caribou (if I remember correctly) because they have no natural predators and they grow to elephant size. Or there about.

 

[Rob_Royale]

I've been to the remains of the Loran station on Adak in the Aleutians. Interesting place. It's excluded from world hunting records for caribou (if I remember correctly) because they have no natural predators and they grow to elephant size. Or there about.

Was the tower taken down?

 

[JGittes]

Was the tower taken down?

Yeah. There's just a building on the north side of the island. I'm pretty sure you can see it on Google Maps.

There's an even more interesting site that was a relay station for US submarines using very low frequencies (again, if I am remembering correctly).

I was there doing geology field work in the late 90s.