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About 2 years ago my wife and I were on a cruise through the western
Mediterranean aboard a Princess liner. We noticed an elderly lady sitting
alone along the rail of the grand stairway in the main dining room. I
also noticed that all the staff, ships officers, waiters, busboys, etc.,
all seemed very familiar with this lady.

But, do they offer NG access with the middle of the Pacific?

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Subject: No nursing home for me...No way

About 2 years ago my wife and I were on a cruise through the western
Mediterranean aboard a Princess liner. We noticed an elderly lady
sitting
alone along the rail of the grand stairway in the main dining room. I
also noticed that all the staff, ships officers, waiters, busboys,
etc.,
all seemed very familiar with this lady.

I asked our waiter who the lady was, expecting to be told that 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 per 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 and razors, and free 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 or 14 days.
7. TV broken? Light bulb need changing? Need to have the mattress
replaced? No Problem! They will fix everything and apologize for
the
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.

Now hold on for the best! Do you want to see South America, the
Panama
Canal, Tahiti , Australia , New Zealand , Asia ?

Princess will have a ship ready to go. So don't look for me in a
nursing
home. Just call shore to ship. PS - And don' t forget, when you die,
they
just dump you over the side at no charge.

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Cheers!
Rich

Let us know how you get your long term care insurance to cover it......

Rich Grise wrote:
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Hey, Rich, how old are you? Why does this (already old) story
hold such interest? Surely you're not beginning to think ahead
to that time already? I'm 63 and I trust it'll be a long while
until these stories become interesting and relevant to me.

Let us know how you get your long term care insurance to cover it......

On Mon, 12 Feb 2007 18:02:28 -0800, Winfield Hill wrote:
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Hey, Rich, how old are you? Why does this (already old) story
hold such interest? Surely you're not beginning to think ahead
to that time already? I'm 63 and I trust it'll be a long while
until these stories become interesting and relevant to me. :-)

Lessee, my B'day is 3/3/49, so this March (two weeks from now??!?!)
I'll be, lessee... 58!!?!?!?!???. No wonder I'm tired all the time!

I got the item from my brother, who's sixty-something, and I just
thought it was a cute story. :-)

Thanks,
Rich

"Rich Grise" <rich@example.net> wrote in message
On Mon, 12 Feb 2007 18:02:28 -0800, Winfield Hill wrote:
Rich Grise wrote:
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Subject: No nursing home for me...No way

Hey, Rich, how old are you? Why does this (already old) story
hold such interest? Surely you're not beginning to think ahead
to that time already? I'm 63 and I trust it'll be a long while
until these stories become interesting and relevant to me. :-)

Lessee, my B'day is 3/3/49, so this March (two weeks from now??!?!)
I'll be, lessee... 58!!?!?!?!???. No wonder I'm tired all the time!

If you are truly tired all the time (and not joking), that could be a symptom of
depression (as well as low blood cell counts and other nasties). Go see a
doctor.

PS:

My permanent exhaustion was a severe depression, now in remission. Especially
since I expect that I shall retire on the profits from shares in
producers/resellers of SRRI's - Wyeth, f.ex. - we have three people @work down
apart from me; it's a brand new epidemic in the making. I see colleagues,
friends and neighbours all exhibiting the same behaviour that made me keel over:
All work and no Fun, basically.

The Danes have become neo-puritans:

"There is only one honest impulse at the bottom of Puritanism, and
that is the impulse to punish the man with a superior capacity for
happiness"

On Wed, 14 Feb 2007 11:04:19 +0100, Frithiof Andreas Jensen wrote:

"Rich Grise" <rich@example.net> wrote in message

On Mon, 12 Feb 2007 18:02:28 -0800, Winfield Hill wrote:

Rich Grise wrote:

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Subject: No nursing home for me...No way

Hey, Rich, how old are you? Why does this (already old) story
hold such interest? Surely you're not beginning to think ahead
to that time already? I'm 63 and I trust it'll be a long while
until these stories become interesting and relevant to me. :-)

Lessee, my B'day is 3/3/49, so this March (two weeks from now??!?!)
I'll be, lessee... 58!!?!?!?!???. No wonder I'm tired all the time!

If you are truly tired all the time (and not joking), that could be a symptom of
depression (as well as low blood cell counts and other nasties). Go see a
doctor.

PS:

My permanent exhaustion was a severe depression, now in remission. Especially
since I expect that I shall retire on the profits from shares in
producers/resellers of SRRI's - Wyeth, f.ex. - we have three people @work down
apart from me; it's a brand new epidemic in the making. I see colleagues,
friends and neighbours all exhibiting the same behaviour that made me keel over:
All work and no Fun, basically.

The Danes have become neo-puritans:

"There is only one honest impulse at the bottom of Puritanism, and
that is the impulse to punish the man with a superior capacity for
happiness"


I read somewhere that they banned bear-baiting, not because it caused
pain to the bear, but because it gave pleasure to the spectators.

Thanks,
Rich

Ya gots eet rong; us Baers did the ban!