New Fad "Nursing Home"
Look at that! What do you think? I would do it :)
About 2 years ago my wife and I were on a cruise through the western
Mediterranean aboard a Princess liner. At dinner 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. T.V. broken? Light bulb need changing? Need to have the mattress
replaced? No Problem! They will fix everything and apologize for your
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, or name where you want to
go?
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.
3 comments:
Not bad idea! Better check prices now to verify if this woman was correct.
If yes, then we can spend our next 30 - 40 years researching crusies to see which one offers the best deals.
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oneninefive
200 dollars times 7 days = 1,400 dollars a week.
Most vacation packages cost a lot less than that and don't forget to exclude the flight fare from the package. Also, there would be special deals from time to time.
If this is true, this woman is clever. If this isn't true, this should not stop us from doing it for real. It doesnt have to be a cruise. We don't have to limit to the common place that has been absorbed in our brains long enough to automatically respond thinking the nursing home is the only place to go to at the near end of our roads.
As for prison and such, that's creative. *pondering about the drawbacks for being in prison*
Maybe they should develop prisons for the elderly so that they are not pushed around by the young n' strong bullies.
Better put down the cruise idea into your will once you have kids, just in case you get alzhemer's disease and forget about this idea.
Your children who will eventually become your legal guardians can look at it and check out the cruise prices and determine if they are cheaper than retirement/nursery homes.
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oneninefive
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