After three days of long excursions ashore, it was nice to enjoy a relaxing day at sea. Though we remain just off the coast of Mexico (cruising towards LA) there is apparently no truth to the rumor that those on the starboard side of this ship are required to wear facemasks (yet!).
Our morning started off to a great start (lots of Disney questions this time) and so our little group enjoyed our first victory at morning trivia and the balance of the day was spent in slow motion so instead let me share a “cruising” story we heard at lunch.
Apparently when Princess Cruise Line was in its infancy (mid-sixties, a few years before The Love Boat made them famous), they didn’t have Laundromats on board or really any facilities for passengers to get their laundry done. This was a particular hardship for those on cruises of more than 7 days and so the ship arranged that when they were in port, passengers could bag up their laundry in the bag provided in their stateroom (with their name and cabin number on it). The stewards would gather up the bags and they would be taken to a laundry ashore and returned to the passengers later that day.
It seems that not ALL of this was communicated to the laundry facility and though many, many bags arrived ashore, only one large bag was returned to the ship. The crew was a bit dismayed but figured what else could they do now? So they spread out all the laundry on the dining room tables and had passengers come and claim their belongings.
I’m thinking I’m pretty typical cruiser here - there are some things in my laundry bag that I would call “serviceable” but there’s no way in hell I’m going to the dining room to sift through undergarments - trying to reclaim those! I can only imagine the announcement (“This is Captain Speaking…could all passengers please come and claim their clothing as we need to set the dining room for 1st seating tonight?”)
I’m so glad others have gone before me and worked out the kinks in that system!
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