Howdy from Curacao. I’m on a week long cruise on Royal Caribbean’s adventure of the seas which is fantastic. We love cruising as a couple and family. A giant floating hotel taking us different places in style for affordable prices. It’s awesome. The cruise lines really do an amazing job.
What NOT so fantastic are the stupid passengers on board. Mostly fellow Americans.
Hey honey I’m calling you from Caracas Venezuela. Oh wait, no that’s Curacao. Close enough.
Yes that’s a real conversation overhead from a fellow passenger. And to make it worse the poor little family that owned the storefront where we were in tried to correct him politely said “no we are not in Venezuela and not with Chavez”. The passenger shrugged and said “close enough”.
Guys. Really. Please stop.
We are the richest nation in earth and simultaneously the fattest, most ignorant and obnoxious people on the planet. There’s a reason why a lot of people don’t like us. It’s simple. We deserve i
This isn’t a new phenomenon. In fact years ago, my wife and I took a budget tour of Europe in 1993 after I finished grad school. We were on a bus for two weeks with some pig farmers from Arkansas that were probably some of the nicest people around, but the probably some of the most ignorant we’ve ever seen.
In England: “Do they drive on the wrong side of the road everywhere in this country or just here?”
In Amsterdam’s red light district: “I guess those girls feel safe behind those windows”
In Switzerland: “cheese, I like cheese”
And the list could go on and on ….
If we as Americans think we can police the world with our values then we need to up our game! I’m pretty sure a lot of people on the planet don’t want to be like us, at least some of us on cruise ships.
