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About 2 years ago my wife 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 that 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 on a 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.
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).
3. Princess has as many as three swimming pools, a workout room, free washers
and dryers, and shows every night.
4. They have free toothpaste and razors, and free soap and shampoo.
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 help you.
6. I will get to meet new people every 7 or 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.
8. Clean sheets and towels every day, and you don't even have to ask for them.
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.
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.
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