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Monday, May 16, 2005
disembarked
My cousin, after a year's stint on a Holland America cruise ship, has finally come home. All weekend, we marveled at her stories, her pictures, and her encounters with the rich guests with bogus requests (hey, that rhymes). She has snorkeled and bungee jumped in Acapulco, cliff-jumped off the coast of New Jersey, shopped in the street markets of Mexico... ah, we were green with envy.
But her guests... man! Talk about demanding. Well, they've got the right to be anyway... after paying four grand (dollars, mind you) for a trip on a big boat. She was stationed for two months as a concierge for these people. She said they were kind, they weren't the type who just got rich out of the blue and treated everyone else like trash. So they were pretty much the polite but demanding and very appreciative type of rich people. Sample requests: "I would like an indonesian-themed dinner for me and my friends". The crew needed to dress this guest's suite up with authentic indonesian decor, and cook up a menu of indonesian dishes and drinks. All in one afternoon, to make it to dinnertime. "Dear, I don't see any blueberries in your blueberry muffin." "Would you like me to send for another blueberry muffin, ma'am?" "No, this blueberry muffin has made me lose my appetite." And the kicker... "Dear, there is a bird under my bed" "A bird, ma'am?" "Yes, there is a bird under my bed" "A living thing?" "Yes, quite odd isn't it" "As in a bird?" Visualize my cousin flapping her hands. In the end, there really was a bird. Hmmm. Alternative career perhaps? But then again, I might just end up screaming and jumping off the boat. 4 Comments:
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di bale na ganun ang guests, hanep naman sa perks! kainggit. grabe!