Cruising Snobbery

really....who cares about these events?

 

Are people that desperate to get a free glass of really cheap plonk, are their egos that small or their aspirations such that they need have a need to be in a group with a ship's officer and be recognized for being an 'important' repeat customer of some sort.

 

I would much prefer something more tangible like a discount on my next cruise or an upgrade. My customer loyalty can be bought...but it will take a little more than a glass of $3. Wine to get me in the mood to place another order without shopping the deal.

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I don't know that I'd call it "cruising snobbery" but it seems a lot of people want to seem more important or in the know than others. Especially others they will never see again. I remember one man at our MDR table, no matter what you said, he could top it. If you said you'd played golf with the Pope, he'd say he'd played with God. It got to be pretty funny.

 

 

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Oh yeah we've known people like that too. We've called them the "better, quicker, stronger, faster, etc" people. No matter what you said they could always do it (fill in the blank with verbs)

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Really....who cares about these events?

 

Are people that desperate to get a free glass of really cheap plonk, are their egos that small or their aspirations such that they need have a need to be in a group with a ship's officer and be recognized for being an 'important' repeat customer of some sort.

 

I would much prefer something more tangible like a discount on my next cruise or an upgrade. My customer loyalty can be bought...but it will take a little more than a glass of $3. wine to get me in the mood to place another order without shopping the deal.

This.

Was it Groucho Marx who said he wouldn’t want to be a member of a club who would have him as a member? :)

A bit of an exaggeration maybe? The ONLY city in America with a population over 5 million IS New York City at 8.6 million. That is a far cry from saying that is the AVERAGE size is 5 million.

Los Angeles is just over 4 million ... dang close in these terms.

The Miami metropolitan area, which includes Miami-Dade, Broward and Palm Beach counties, had a combined population of more than 5.5 million people, ranked seventh largest in the United States.

There are, however, at least 9 US metropolitan areas with over 5 million population. As such and especially since most discussions of US population figures are based on metropolitan areas (ergo the SMSA nomenclature), I say we give CruiseGal999 some leeway ... unless that would be forbidden by the First Amendment to the US Constitution, a topic on which you provided insights in another Thread ...

Yes, THIS is more appropriately what I was trying to say ... but I said 'cities'. Thank you for the correction and clarification.

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