Food Cruise- Day 2

Day 2 of the eating adventure out at sea. We begin with lunch when we board the boat. I was not prepared for this at all. I was thinking a bunch of people going on a nice trip together; we are all on the same ship, and one big family. Well we were on board with a bunch of cousins that nobody wants to invite to the reunion. It was as if these people lived in caves and never been in contact with other humans before. I was scared for mine and my wife's lives.

They didn't care if you were next in line; they just push you out of the way and piled all they could on their plate. It didn't matter if they could eat it all or not. That was a little sad. Most of the employees on the ship were from countries that were very poor. So it was very embarrassing watching all these fat Americans waste all that food. Way to represent people. The worst were the old people. I guess they had to hurry up and get theirs because they didn't know if they were going to be alive the next day to eat again. They acted like they were too old to notice that they were cutting in front of people, but I could tell they knew what they were doing when I saw one of them trip a kid to get them out of the way. The kids were horrible too. Taking their snotty, unwashed hands and grabbing everything. I wanted to jab one with a fork when their parents were not looking. The favorite of the cruise was when I got behind the lady who acted like she had a stick shoved upped her back side. She was picking through a bowl of fruit. Not a big deal I know. But she only picked out three grapes. Not just any grapes off the top, but she pushed other grapes aside to get to these particular three grapes. What was so annoying was that it took her 10 minutes to pick out three grapes.

My wife and I ended up at the Chinese buffet line. They had some good noodles, chicken, and some shrimp. Nothing that made you go wow, but this was our first meal and we were just happy to get away from the feeding time at the zoo and find a quiet place to sit and eat.

Then it was dinner time. This was when the action was happening. Not knowing what was going on we got to the dining hall early. We would not make that mistake again. They would not let you sit early, so once again like a heard of animals we had to wait in line. That's when it happened.....

Then elevator doors opened and out of nowhere came this old lady flying out on her scooter. No beeping noise, no looking to see who was behind her. She just floored that little red scooter and backed out of the elevator like a bat out of hell. I had to push my wife out of the way, or she would have lost a big toe. The old hag got stuck and could not turn the scooter around. She was getting so mad at her husband that was trying to help her. She said, “I do not like this and I am getting very angry at all this.” Then, she got up and walked away leaving the scooter behind. Just when my wife and I were getting over the humor of the situation, we hear this awful noise. Some little kid was not getting enough attention and thought he would get everyone’s by screaming at the top of his lungs. To top this off the dad, grandfather, boyfriend, whatever he was said, “If you don't stop I am going to punch you in the stomach so hard it will knock all the breath out of you.” We just wanted to get inside and we were hoping we did not have to sit with any of these people.

Finally inside at our seat, we sat with a fun couple we had met earlier that day and a nice newlywed couple. We were actually looking forward to having dinner with them every night. Then it was time to order. I had steak and potatoes, plus a crème brulee for dessert. It was all very good. But really it wasn’t so much about the food as it was about the atmosphere. The dining area was supposed to be a nice place to eat. In fact they suggest to you to dress up a little. But not these rednecks; they wore their flip flops, shorts, and what they called a shirt. Pretty much the same thing you would see if you went to a Waffle House at 3:00 in the morning. I was a little disappointed with the portions, but that was just being a newbie to the cruise dining. I learned something very important from another passenger at breakfast that I will share on another blog. The thing was if you didn't get enough to eat and got hungry around 1:00 or 2:00 in the morning; there was always the 24 hour pizza and ice cream bar. I didn't know if I could sleep knowing that would be available to me all night.

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