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serryjw Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Mon Oct-04-04 11:51 PM
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No nursing home in our future!
(no one seems to know here this came from!)

There need be no nursing home in our future!!
> > >
> > > I am going to get on a Princess Cruise Ship. The average cost for a
> > nursing home is $200.00 per day. I have checked on reservations at
Princess
> > and I can get a long term discount and senior discount price of $135.00
per
> > day. That
> > > leaves $62.00 a day for:
> > >
> > > 1. Gratuities at $10.00 per day.
> > >
> > > 2. You can have as many as 10 meals a day if you can waddle to the
> > restaurant, or you can have room service (breakfast in bed every day of
the
> > week).
> > >
> > > 3. Princess has as many as three swimming pools, a workout room, free
> > washers and dryers, shows every night.
> > >
> > > 4. They have free toothpaste and razors, and all the free soap and
> > shampoo.
> > >
> > > 5. They will even treat you like a customer, not a patient. An extra
5.00
> > worth of tips will have the entire staff scrambling to help you.
> > >
> > > 6. We 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 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 a Princess Ship they will up
> > grade you to a suite for the rest of your life (can't beat that). Now
hold
> > on for the best,
> > >
> > > 10. Do you want to see South America, the Panama Canal, Tahiti,
Australia,
> > New Zealand, Asia, or you name where you want to go and Princess will
have a
> > ship ready to go.
> > >
> > > So don't look for me in a nursing home. Just call shore to ship and
> > address my e-mail to Suz@ princessship.com
> > >
> > > p.s. If you die they just dump you over the side, at no charge
> > >
> > >
> >
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