We don't cruise as much as some of you here do, but even we enjoy seeing staff and crew from a previous voyage--especially if they were especially good at their jobs and always cheerful. We also are interested in the life paths of young crew members and have enjoyed hearing about their home countries, their families there, and their plans and goals for the future. While they are not our friends, they are people we have met and we do care about them and wish them the very best. We are cognizant of the fact that while on board, it is important to be polite and considerate--come what may. The crew are not our servants--they are people doing a job from which we benefit.