The older I have gotten, the more large groups of people aggravate me and my disdain grew ten-fold on this cruise. To be short, people suck. They are rude, selfish, self-centered, and inconsiderate.
Let me explain. If I've been standing in line for three hours, waiting to board the boat, what makes you think slipping into the line once I've reached the front is ever going to happen. Also, coagulating where I am standing, like a freaking gnat cloud is almost more than I can take. I was about to start smacking people by the time the line started moving.
If Muster (emergency drill) is at 4:30, don't freaking saunter up at 4:45. Every-damn-body who is there has to wait until every-damn-body else shows up. I get that you are on vacation, jackass, but so am I and I didn't plan on spending it on deck, waiting for you.
Here's another one. If the crew has decided to start a dance in the middle of the promenade, and you have somewhere you'd like to be, here's an idea-maybe move around the side to get by. Or you could be the asshat who just walks through the middle. Don't let the activity happening in front of your stupid face get in your way.
Also, getting up and leaving in the middle of a live show is still RUDE. Especially if your dumb ass is in the front row. When an announcer asks the audience to clear the aisles and not to take flash photos as it could distract the performers, don't be the woman who decides she must take her baby out right now and must use the entire aisle, performer be damned, or the idiot who immediately takes a flash picture causing the announcer momentary blindness.
Saving ten seats for your family who then don't show up and or allowing your children to swing from the railings is...come-on people. It's a boat, not a freaking playground. I'm a hundred percent sure if that boat went down we wouldn't be able to shove off, even if we'd made it to the life boats because some people would be trying to reserve seats for their family, others would be letting their kids run wild and the rest would be pushing the slow and elderly out of the way.
Why? Because Hell is other people, that's why.
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| Taken before I got on the cruise. Look at that face. I was so naive. |
