Cruzan
I’m on my cruise ship, waiting to embark. Every time I’m on one of these I marvel at their efficiency. Every Sunday they manage to get 2,000 people, and their waste, off of the boat, then get that many more people and supplies back on in less time than it takes my wife to do her makeup. I realize they do some of the supply work while in port, but still, it’s impressive.
I’m also amazed at how thorough they are. These things are basically floating towns, with their own little economies. They have doctors, jails, shops, and pretty much everything else one needs. The only thing different about a cruise ship and the city I live in is the ratio of bartenders to civilians. It’s the kind of place a man could get used to.
It’s also neat to see what completely unrestrained capitalism looks like. There’s no competition on board, so the only factor in their pricing is how many customers will buy a given product at a certain price. I guess if it got too outrageous they might lose some repeat business, but given the $7 charge for a Miller Lite, I don’t think the people who run it are cognizant of that. They just take each price point, multiply it by how much they’d sell there, and then compare.
It’s supposed to rain pretty much every day we’re in port. That I can handle, so long as it doesn’t keep us from swimming with the dolphins. That’s pretty much what I’m looking forward to the most. In fact, the only reason I’m working on this startup is so that one day, just maybe, I can have a pet dolphin. I’m going to have to strike it pretty big for that, I know, but if Hugh Hefner can have a whole zoo, why can’t I just have a few aquatic mammals?
I’ll also want some sharks for the moat, but that’s a topic for another time. I’ve got a life jacket seminar to attend.
