WHAT ARE YOUR QUALIFICATIONS?

October 24, 2016

I did my talk twice today – “When Pirates Sailed the Atlantic.”  Both were well attended and the response was gratifying, until a woman came up and asked me, “What are your qualifications?!”  I answered, “I have a double major in history,” and before I could go on, she said, “You are not Pirate McGillicutty!”  She told me that her friend, Pirate McGillicutty, went into schools with his bagpipe and his band and told children to obey their parents, and I am not he.  Actually she said, grammatically incorrectly, “You ain’t him!”  I said, “He must have been a great person to have known.”  She sniffled, “He was!”  Well, you can’t win ‘em all.

A number of people have come up to me, told me that they have heard me in past sailings, and are looking forward to hearing me on this cruise.  That is much more gratifying that Pirate McGillicutty.  Take that!

Today was a storm day at sea, but not as bad as I was expecting when the Captain announced bad weather was a’comin’.  I spent my day either talking, or preparing for the first one, or starting preparation for a second one.  We dressed in our “Cruise Elegant” for supper.  The show tonight was a hypnotist, and I am sleeping enough without someone telling me how sleepy I am becoming.  So we came back to the room.  I rehearsed for tomorrow’s “Yes, We May Have No Bananas,” while Bonnie played scrabble on her phone.

My cruise companion was – in her words – a totally wasted, worthless person today, who did nothing.  And so she will not blog this evening.

We roll our clocks back one hour tonight, so tomorrow we will only be 4 hours ahead of you.  And an extra hour will be nice because I am getting drowsy.  My eyes are getting heavy.  I can hardly keep them open.  I will now cluck like a chicken.

TTFN!