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DID SHIP LIFE FUCK UP YOUR SENSE OF REALITY For people who worked on ships and now don't know what to do with their fucking lives because the crew bar sold 50 cent drinks and dollar ciggies and you were at the fucking beach every day!

What do you miss about the ship life? I miss: 1) Late sail aways in Aruba 2) The Lucky Lady and the Rendezvous 3) The beach 4) The instant, endless, often tiring but always enjoyable social life 5) 50 cent drinks 6) A new cast boarding - why was that always such an event...and so much fun?? 7) Late nights/early mornings in the Casino corridor 8) Discount tours 9) Snorkeling 10) Themed crew parties 11) Wondering what sort of trouble the Steiners would get themselves into next... 12) Watching sail away in some beautiful place at sunset 13) Stumbling out of bed in the morning, jumping into the shower and heading out for a day in the tropical sun 14) Getting off the ship in Skagway to listen to the musicians jam at the Red Onion 15) Browsing at expensive jewelery in St. Thomas 16) Wasting money on designer sunglasses 17) Earning money with a higher exchange rate than my country's and not actually having to do anything with it except spend it or save it 18) The Crow's Nest 19) Dry Dock - even though it was hotter than any human should ever be subjected to, and so noisy you couldn't hear yourself think, it was SO MUCH FUN 20) Jeff and Alex being silly and making us laugh till Pepsi (or beer) came out of our noses...never seen two cabin mates more suited to each other! I do not miss: 1) Standing on my poor feet for 18 hours straight on sea days 2) Crap food in the staff mess (CCL)...HAL food wasn't actually that bad at lunch! Dinner could be questionable at times, though 3) Fritz the Grumpy Hotel Manager 4) Boat drills 5) The smell of freshly cooked fish heads in the crew mess 6) Coast Guard Inspection 7) Immigration checks at 6 in the morning 8) The smell of Xenon radiating throughout the ship (Xenon is the sewage processing plant in the engine room! It STANK the whole ship up all the time!) 9) Sharing a cabin the size of most people's closet with someone you have never met before and having to take the damn top bunk because they were there first (although I was lucky and ended up with some pretty brilliant cabin mates) 10) Trying to get into my bunkbed when there was no ladder and I no longer possessed the limberness and flexibility of a 10 year old child...foot on desk...other foot on side of bottom bunk...hoist body up...pray balance remains steady...bang head on roof 11) Extremely unintelligent passengers that asked extremely unintelligent questions like "Do these stairs go up or down?" or "Does this elevator take me to the front of the ship?" or "Do you LIVE on the ship or does a helicopter pick you up each night and take you ashore to sleep?" 12) Leaving the great friends you have met not knowing if you will ever see them again...except on Facebook! By: Christine Gauthier :)

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