Bahaha!

I had an amusing day at work.

The cruise manager, that everyone hates and the one that made me cry earlier, pissed me off. My boat didn't have enough knives and I went to get it from his boat 'cause he had the biggest boat, meaning the most supplies. I grabbed half of the bucket that they had. He was like "Tsui Pi, we have 200 people tonight. 200 people sit-down dinner." Uhhh, so did my cruise. I put two handfuls back and said, "There. Done. I'll bring back what I can." Obviously it wasn't enough. I had to go to another boat to get more knives.

I don't know if you know who George is. But he had a cruise with us today on the shittiest boat in our fleet since everything else was booked. George, the R&B singer guy. Yeah, don't ask me. I don't know. Everyone kept saying how there's some famous singer guy with us. Pffft, he's not that famous. He doesn't even touch the word famous. Anyway, he was hiding before the cruise 'cause he didn't want a horde of teenage girls at him. The spot where he chose to hide with his bodyguard is the worst place possible. He pretty much hid in plain view of the pathway that everyone comes.

George had on this ridiculous greyish-silver bow tie. Bow tie! I was surprised at how short he is. He wasn't much taller than I am. And he looked like a boy. A kid, even. It was pretty funny. As I was going to get more knives from the other boat, he was hiding at the lower entrance. He gave me a little smile and I did the same. But at that point, I was already pissy from the stupid cruise manager. As I was coming off the boat, I was talking to a co-worker about stupid cruise manager guy and I said, "[Cruise manager's name] is a fucking bastard!" and walked right by little George. Walking away, I looked back and he was drinking whatever he was drinking and singing to himself. It was so weird.

During my cruise, the cruise manager told me to request Twist and Shout by the Beatles from the DJ. The gay bartender wanted to hear It's Raining Men. Cruise Manager didn't want to hear that song; Gay Bartender wanted to rub it in cruise manager's face 'cause, let's face it, it's funny. I go to the DJ and come back down. Bad news is the DJ couldn't find Twist and Shout, good news is the DJ found It's Raining Men. Cruise Manager shakes his head. The next song is Love Shack by the B-52s. Cruise Manager shakes his head some more at the string of gay songs. Cruise manager tells me to request I Will Survive by Gloria Gaynor. I tell him that it's a pretty gay song. Gay Bartender nods. Cruise Manager says, "... I actually like that song." Funny.

The weather was pretty bad today. High winds and sporradic rain showers produced an incredible humidity and slightly worrying waves. We were the only boat in the company to have a full cruise. The other boats had to stay dockside until 9 pm when they got the OK to go out. This meant that all of them would go out for an hour before they're scheduled to dock at 10 pm. I heard that many of the clients were pretty pissed.

Here's the kicker of the George cruise that I heard from the staff after. He had all these important people on, like his producer and stuff. The cruise was a ... wait for it ... waaaaaaaaaaait for it ... a pop and juice cruise. No alcohol at all. The producer and some other, older people tried to ask for some alcoholic drinks, but it's a big no-no when it's paid for as a pop and juice cruise.

An amusing day at work, indeed.