Better Than a Nursing Home
 

an email I got....

About two 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 noticed that all the staff, ship officers, waiters, busboys, etc. all seemed very familiar with this lady. I asked our waiter who the lady was, expecting to be told 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 a day. I have checked on reservations at 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, razors, 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 to 14 days.

7. TV 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.

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

I'm sorry but I don't see the humor in that.

its not necessarily meant to be humorous. But what would you rather do - be stuck in a nursing home or get to see the world at the same cost?

I'd rather be drunk/high 24/7 when I get that old.

I hate boats so I'll take the nursing home

Meh...idno. Nursing homes are for people waiting to die, and I decided when I was about 6 that Im never going to die, so I will never have to decide. :)

:lolsign: I found it funny. I'd be all for cruises, never been on one yet.

you'll die young more than likely anyway

when i went on a cruise, after i got off the boat, everything was still movin around me for like 2 days, even when i laid down to sleep my whole world was swaying back and forth

:eek:

thanks arch.... :banghead:

that's why you never get off of the ship. :eleph:

I get sea sick bad. i went on a cruise once when i was younger and i was puking everywhere. Id take the nursing home.

nursing homes don't sink either

depends on where they are built!

no iceburg where I live :lolsign: