What makes Oceania special? We want to try it.

[JimandStan]

There is an anecdote, perhaps apocryphal -although I hope that it isn't- about the couple who saved for over 50 years in order to splurge on their dream voyage......A World Cruise.

 

Finances decreed that their cabin would be a small one which sported twin beds on opposite sides of the room, but they were determined to make the best of it .

 

As the voyage progressed, the wife noticed that a screw head was protruding slightly from the bulkhead near the foot of her bed, sometimes scratching her and often catching the fabric of her outfits

 

The husband gallantly ran to the buffet to retrieve a knife cum screw driver, but they hesitated to touch the screw at a time when the stewards might see for fear that they might be accused of damaging the wall.

 

The next morning at 4AM the bleary eyed wife slowly, carefully removed the screw and at the very second that she dislodged it, the ship staggered to a 45 degree list, all lights blacked out, emergency sirens blared, and an alarming amount of salt water gushed under their cabin door from the hallway.

 

A Tsunami was the culprit, and although the damage was confined to glassware and broken limbs, it was severe enough that hundreds of deckchairs were reduced to kindling and the grand piano in the nightclub was flipped onto its' back, but the couple didn't learn this until the next day.

 

Convinced that the removal of that errant screw had somehow caused a catastrophic structural failure to their vessel, they hid out in that darkened cabin, until hunger forced their hand the next afternoon.

[Issyalex]

There is an anecdote, perhaps apocryphal -although I hope that it isn't- about the couple who saved for over 50 years in order to splurge on their dream voyage......A World Cruise.

 

Finances decreed that their cabin would be a small one which sported twin beds on opposite sides of the room, but they were determined to make the best of it .

 

As the voyage progressed, the wife noticed that a screw head was protruding slightly from the bulkhead near the foot of her bed, sometimes scratching her and often catching the fabric of her outfits

 

The husband gallantly ran to the buffet to retrieve a knife cum screw driver, but they hesitated to touch the screw at a time when the stewards might see for fear that they might be accused of damaging the wall.

 

The next morning at 4AM the bleary eyed wife slowly, carefully removed the screw and at the very second that she dislodged it, the ship staggered to a 45 degree list, all lights blacked out, emergency sirens blared, and an alarming amount of salt water gushed under their cabin door from the hallway.

 

A Tsunami was the culprit, and although the damage was confined to glassware and broken limbs, it was severe enough that hundreds of deckchairs were reduced to kindling and the grand piano in the nightclub was flipped onto its' back, but the couple didn't learn this until the next day.

 

Convinced that the removal of that errant screw had somehow caused a catastrophic structural failure to their vessel, they hid out in that darkened cabin, until hunger forced their hand the next afternoon.

 

 

 

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