Do peer-runner "watchers" have some kind of emotional disorder?

I've heard some cruisers plan these "events" into their days, checking out embarkation times, staking out optimal viewing areas, etc.

Innocent fun or deviant behavior?

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After 18 cruises, and 200+ days on cruise ships, I have never seen any "planning" of these events, or any such competition for spots. Doesn't mean we haven't been aware of people not getting back to the ship. It does happen. But an emotional disorder? Seriously?

I've heard some cruisers plan these "events" into their days, checking out embarkation times, staking out optimal viewing areas, etc.

 

Innocent fun or deviant behavior?

 

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You could ask the same question about people who watch "reality" television. Sadly there's millions and millions of those. Humans are wired for a little thing called schadenfreude.

Is "deviant" behavior always a bad thing?

Schadenfreude at its finest

http://beta.merriam-webster.com/dictionary/schadenfreude

Avenue Q has a song

(no idea why it's animated with MLP).

What is a peer runner?

what is a peer runner?

lol!

No, seriously: what is a peer runner? Clearly we just don't know. 😕

After 18 cruises, and 200+ days on cruise ships, I have never seen any "planning" of these events, or any such competition for spots. Doesn't mean we haven't been aware of people not getting back to the ship. It does happen. But an emotional disorder? Seriously?

I agree. Hopefully, folks are spending more time correcting their CC post spelling.

A track team?

I DO know what a carpet runner is.

Are they similar?

I agree. Hopefully, folks are spending more time correcting their CC post spelling.

LOL! Love this! Now, let's see if someone spots the spelling error. LOL!!

A pier-runner is someone (or a group) that are running toward the pier very close to of after the deadline to return to the ship. Sometimes they get to the ship in time, and other times, they miss the ship. Talk about nightmares!

That's why it's best to book through the cruise line. We returned after the deadline, five hour tour stretched to nine hours. But since it was a ship excursion, they held the ship for us.

http://boards.cruisecritic.com/showthread.php?t=2121215

I've heard some cruisers plan these "events" into their days, checking out embarkation times, staking out optimal viewing areas, etc.

 

Innocent fun or deviant behavior?

I'm standing (or is it staking) on my balcony trying to enjoy sail away. I love watching us leave people behind... I mean port. I have places to go BUT we aren't leaving. Why because somebody is holding up an entire ship of over 3,000 passengers and another 1,000 plus crew members. I have nothing else to do because I came back on board on time. That delays what I have to do on board but I'm still standing there waiting, waiting, waiting. Ho hum.

Oh wait! There they are staggering up the pier, oblivious to their actions. I want to get going so I cheer them on. Come on, hurry up! You can do it. You can walk faster going backwards but still nothing. If I yell hurry up, will they? I guess just like the fable, if a tree falls in the forest and no one is there to hear if fall, does it still make a noise?

Now, if they were sober and in a hurry, well that would be a whole different scenario.

There is nothing innocent or deviant. I just want the inconsiderate a***** to get back on board and quit being a total "it is all about me" person. That way, since I am on my balcony already, can enjoy my sailaway. The one that I was assured that would happen at 5:30, not 6:00.

Even those on a tour getting back late, do you really have to walk your slowest? Hustle it up or I'm going to have to encourage you.

So the answer for me is YES I do plan these events. I plan on being on my balcony at sail time. I've even been known to go out a few minutes early.

Duh. I Googled "peer runner", and this thread came up. 😲

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A pier-runner is someone (or a group) that are running toward the pier very close to of after the deadline to return to the ship. Sometimes they get to the ship in time, and other times, they miss the ship. Talk about nightmares!

 

That's why it's best to book through the cruise line. We returned after the deadline, five hour tour stretched to nine hours. But since it was a ship excursion, they held the ship for us.

 

http://boards.cruisecritic.com/showthread.php?t=2121215

Thanks!

LOL! Love this! Now, let's see if someone spots the spelling error. LOL!!

LOL, duh at the spelling! I'm mad at myself! 😖

We have been lucky to have a balcony that faces the port in Cozumel on all of our stops there. We love to sit on the balcony with our drinks at sail away and watch for pier runners. We've seen them on 2 of 5 stops in Cozumel.

No one answered the question about what is a peer runner.:o

If someone is deliberately taking their time buying one last tschoske before returning...then they deserve to be treated with derision by those who were responsible enough to be back on time.

No one answered the question about what is a peer runner.:o

 

If someone is deliberately taking their time buying one last tschoske before returning...then they deserve to be treated with derision by those who were responsible enough to be back on time.

This term harkens back to the golden age of amateur athletics, when amateurs were "in it for the sport". It refers to a member of the British nobility that participates in certain track and field events. :p

This term harkens back to the golden age of amateur athletics, when amateurs were "in it for the sport". It refers to a member of the British nobility that participates in certain track and field events. :p

Alternatively, they are on the run-up for the tenth Day of Christmas (Lords-a-leaping).

This term harkens back to the golden age of amateur athletics, when amateurs were "in it for the sport". It refers to a member of the British nobility that participates in certain track and field events. :p

Great sport to watch. Go Chuckie!!!

When you go on excursions with the same people the coach is typically held up by the same people. You return from the jaunt round town, museum or whatever and sit in the coach for fifteen minutes until half past and it is the time for the coach to return to the ship. Unfortunately the same couple always turn up at quarter to the next hour so forty people sit there like lemons waiting for the same people. This happens a lot and it's the same people holding the coach up while you wait. Then they arrive walk on nonchalantly without a care in the world holding everyone up. During the waiting period a sort of dislike; to put it mildly builds up in the minds of those waiting.

The same type of behaviour then becomes apparent when it comes to the time the ship leaves the pier. However under these new circumstances some people can vent their disgust at these people; holding the whole 3,000 people on the ship up by organising a few drinks and a viewing area from which to observe the blighters. This is often their balconies or promenade deck. From these places you can watch the gangplank being raised and people running well after the time they have been told to return to the ship. A certain amount of encouragement can be shouted at them to assist speeding them up in attempting reboarding or reboarding and views expressed on what your opinion of what you think about the pier runners.

Regards John

You could also question if casino fans have various addictive disorders...

You could again question if buffet addicts have obsessive disorders..

and so on and so forth.

The human condition is to be observant to others lives and these includes a curiousity to others distress...as Sadie put it its just a case of Schaudenfreude.

I enjoy positioning myself for pier runner watching if theres nothing else on although usually there is.

To Op

When sailing the Freedom of the Seas, had the opportunity to watch runners at their finest stumble down the pier in Cozumel (Senior Frogs???).

It was un-planned and spontaneous looking out the balcony.

There are also many videos out there on you tube.

Enjoy

People love to watch other people's misfortunes. They can claim to be good church going , law abiding , charitable folks all they want and maybe even they are . But there is something about it that makes a person say "Hmmmm my life isn't so great , but at least I am not going through THAT"

One poster mentioned why all the reality, courtroom ,Lifetime, Jerry Springer type shows have been on for so many years . Call them crap all you want . But someone is watching them or there wouldn't be so many of them on the air for so many years.

Who doesn't enjoy when a big celebrity or politician gets caught in a scandal and makes his big teary eyed press conference . Last week he/she was a rich arrogant a hole who walked round like his didn't stink and now they are on TV crying and begging for forgiveness.. Makes for great entertainment. Everyone from the talk show hosts , to the Saturday Night live skits, to the guy around the water cooler at work have a joke about it.

I mean come on , obviously Op made a typo with PEER runner, But everyone had to jump on that.

What's next calling out "Four Eyes", Brace Face , and Fatty Fatty Two by Four