No nursing home for me!

[Damien Kilcannon]

I got this email..thought I would share



No Nursing Home for Me


About 2 years ago my wife and I were on a cruise through the western Mediterranean aboard a Princess liner. At dinner we noticed an elderly lady sitting alone along the rail of the grand stairway in the main dining room. I also noticed that all the staff, ships officers, waiters, busboys, etc., all seemed very familiar with this lady. I asked our waiter who the lady was, expecting to be told that she owned the line,but he said he only knew that she had been on board for the last four cruises, back-to-back.

As we left the dining room one evening I caught her eye and stopped to say hello. We chatted and I said, 'I understand you've been on this ship for the last four cruises'. She replied, 'Yes, that's true.' I stated, 'I don't understand' and she replied, without a pause, 'It's cheaper than a nursing home'.

So, there will be no nursing home in my future. When I get old and feeble, I am going to get on a Princess Cruise Ship. The average cost for a nursing home is $200 per day. I have checked on reservations on a Princess and I can get a long term discount and senior discount price of $135 per day. That leaves $65 a day for:

1. Gratuities which will only be $10 per day.

2. I will have as many as 10 meals a day if I can waddle to the restaurant, or I can have room service (which means I can have breakfast-in-bed every day of the week).

3. Princess has as many as three swimming pools, a workout room, free washers and dryers, and shows every night.

4. They have free toothpaste and razors, and free soap and shampoo.

5. They will even treat you like a customer, not a patient. An extra $5 worth of tips will have the entire staff scrambling to help you.

6. I will get to meet new people every 7 or 14 days.

7. T.V. broken? Light bulb need changing? Need to have the mattress replaced? No Problem! They will fix everything and apologize for your inconvenience.

8. Clean sheets and towels every day, and you don't even have to ask for them.

9. If you fall in the nursing home and break a hip you are on Medicare; if you fall and break a hip on the Princess ship they will upgrade you to a suite for the rest of your life.

Now hold on for the best! Do you want to see South America, the Panama Canal, Tahiti, Australia, New Zealand, Asia, or name where you want to go?

Princess will have a ship ready to go. So don't look for me in a nursing home, just call shore to ship.

ps: And don't forget, when you die, they just dump you over the side -- at no charge.

[Irwin Hunter]

Sad, I could give you the many reasons why this is so. But, it all revovles around politics and the lack of management keeping thier employees properly staffed and financially stable. I agree with you on the way the system is. But it is a sore subject for me, cause there is onnly one way you are going to fix it. You cannot be a liberal to get it done.

[DevilSpawn]

Is Irwin a free market libertarian?

[SICK]

ds quit calling people names!

[Irwin Hunter]

He was calling me a name?

[SICK]

a very bad one in some circles. or a good one. depends on who you ask!

[DevilSpawn]

good one, imo : p

I guess we are in the "people's army" though lol

YAY POSSIBLE POLITICAL DISCUSSION ON MESSAGE BOARD COMING!

[SICK]

surely it would end up locked since most political discussions melt down into a flaming of the opposition and trying to discredit them instead of pointing out facts and making logical well thought out arguments. Ah American politics oh how our forefathers would be proud.

[Irwin Hunter]

Called mudslinging... Or primetime on CNN now-a-days.