No Nursing Home for Me
A few years ago my husband 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 mattressreplaced? 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 - No charge.

Hmmm! Not a bad idea, but what if you get seasick? NOT good!

Gives me an idea, though. Wonder what kind of long-term deal a guy could get at The New Chicken Ranch in Reno, Nevada?

Har! Har! Har!

(I'll let you know, Cubby! LOL)

jimmy, Parden my ignorance but are you talking bout a farm impliment house?? If you are, the cruise furnishes little bags free of charge, anyway at my age, I'd rather be seasick than be HO-HANDLED. HARHAR
I do like the cruise ride better than a nursing home, that's the reason I eat fast and greasy food, might slide all the way to Glory. MVB ES

I've heard of a similar plan but using a hotel rather than a cruise.

You didn't mention that cruise ships have medical facilities too.

I really think that is a great idea!

See ya there I hope. I've never been on a single cruise.

E.S., "Chicken Ranch" is Texas talk for....um...."house of ill repute."

Gottit?

Butch, would you please e-mail this plan so that I can share with some seniors who aren't on this forum?

I will be glad to but I need your E-maill address.
I thought it was on the connection somewhere but I can't find it and can't remember where I saw it.
It is bad to get forgetful.

Now what were we talking about?

It was Auburn Thursday night football Butch.

Ivy, I'm gone, but I aint that much gone. I was talking to Sue about sending her the plan for living on a cruise ship. I need ner e-mail to send it to her.

I sent it to her, Butch. Her email address is just below her name on her posts, but you need to leave off the "www." of course. Anyway, it's done. Not meaning to interfere. Just to help.
Regards,
Jimmy

Thanks Jimmy. I never saw that E-mail symbol on her post under her name. Oh well learn something new everyday.

You're welcome. Glad to help. Sure, we learn until we die...or else we become so full of ourselves everybody else WISHES we'd go on and get it over with so they can have some peace. LOL

I don't put my email address up because I've had to completely abandon the one I made the mistake of putting up on my website. See, if you put up an email address here --- or almost anywhere else --- the spammers "harvest" that and spread it all over the WORLD. I was getting Viagra ads from people in Russia, China, Nigeria....EVERYWHERE!

Now HOW do you figure a guy in China figures I need Viagra?

HAR! HAR! HAR!

I guess he just reads what you write about yourself and figures this guy has lost his giddyup, dontcha spect.

Horace

I'm lost, Horace. Who you talking to and about?

Viagra and Cialis of course!

I musta been REALLY sleepy when I did that. You were talking to me about the Chinese guy, huh? Oh, well....

Yea, I was stalking about the *****y...but sometimes so many things come up here the train gets broken and if we are not careful what we say makes no sense to anyone else...I'll try to do better next time.

Horace

Thanks guys and gals for the attention.. I so need that. My e-mail address is suecmorgan@hotmail.com. Sorry but I did not ever receive the e-mail about the plan. Tghaanks for responding maybe I can get it now.