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Rarich
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 Posted: 02-Mar-2005 16:38 Post subject: For those Old Mech warriors out there.... |
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About 2 years ago my friend and I were on a cruise through the western Mediterranean aboard a Princess liner. At dinner we noticed an elderly lady sitting alone along the rail of the grand stairway
in the main dining room. I also noticed that all the staff, ships officers, waiters, busboys, etc., all seemed very familiar with this lady. I asked our waiter who the lady was, expecting to be told she owned the line, but he said he only knew that she had been on board for the last four cruises, back to
back.
As we left the dining room one evening I caught her eye and stopped to say hello. We chatted and I said, "I understand you've been
on this ship for the last four cruises". She replied, "Yes, that's true." I stated, "I don't understand" and she replied, without a pause, "It's cheaper than a nursing home". So, there will be no nursing home in my future.
When I get old and feeble, I am going to get on a Princess Cruise Ship. The average cost for a nursing home is $200 per day. I have checked on reservations at Princess
and I can get a long term discount and senior discount price of $135 per day.
That leaves $65 a day for:
1. Gratuities which will only be $10 per day.
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2. I will have as many as 10 meals a day if I can waddle to the restaurant, or I can have room service (which means I can have breakfast in bed every day of the week).
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> 3. Princess has as many as three swimming pools, a workout room, free washers and dryers, and shows every night.
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> 4. They have free toothpaste and razors, and free soap and shampoo.
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> 5. They will even treat you like a customer, not a patient. An extra $5 worth of tips will have the entire staff scrambling to
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> 6. I will get to meet new people every 7or 14 days.
> 7. T.V. broken? Light bulb need changing? Need to have the mattress
replaced? No Problem! They will fix everything and apologize for your inconvenience.
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> 8. Clean sheets and towels every day, and you don't even have to ask for them.
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> 9. If you fall in the nursing home and break a hip you are on Medicare; if you fall and break a hip on the Princess ship they
will upgrade you to a suite for the rest of your life.
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Now hold on for the best! Do you want to see South America, the Panama Canal, Tahiti, Australia, New Zealand, Asia, or name where
you want to go? Princess will have a ship ready to go. So don't look for me in a nursing home, just call shore to ship.
> PS And don't forget, when you die, they just dump you over the side at no charge.
Truth, Legend? I know what to do with mine when the time comes! 
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Nightmare
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| Posted: 02-Mar-2005 23:36 Post subject: RE: For those Old Mech warriors out there.... |
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I can't speak for Princess cruises, but some elderly citizens used to live on the passenger ferries here. Selling some choice tax free items ashore made it better than trying to get by on a basic pension.
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AlexxKnight
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Joined: 11-Feb-2002 00:00
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| Posted: 03-Mar-2005 07:37 Post subject: RE: For those Old Mech warriors out there.... |
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It is all sad but true.
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Sir Henry
Team Bansai
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Joined: 04-Feb-2002 00:00
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Location: United States
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| Posted: 03-Mar-2005 09:25 Post subject: RE: For those Old Mech warriors out there.... |
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I read an article from the Sun in London, A woman like on the QEII or the Queen something. She says it's cheaper than living in the city. She said a flat was 350 pounds a month and the ship was about 200 pounds...
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SaberDance
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Joined: 07-May-2004 00:00
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| Posted: 03-Mar-2005 15:14 Post subject: RE: For those Old Mech warriors out there.... |
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All I can say is this is one more reason to privatize.
Staying off politics though, even if it were slightly more expensive, I think this might be worth it.
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Rarich
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Location: United States
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| Posted: 07-Mar-2005 19:15 Post subject: Creative Economics |
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People will try to find ways. There is a story I heard when I was younger.
A rich businessman walks into a bank in NewYork and takes out a signature loan for 15,000$ and puts his Rolls Royce up as collateral, and lets the bank garage it for a month while he travels out of country. 28 days later he returns, pays off the signature loan with the same money he was loaned and picks up his Rolls.
When asked why he did that he said "can you figure out another way to keep a car safe in New York for free?"
The cruise/ferry angles are more of the same thinking, I believe.
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