So CNN is asking whether the offer made by Carnival Cruises is enough to compensate a ruined vacation or honeymoon. They have announced that all passengers will get a free refund, transportation to return home, and a voucher for a completely free future trip.
Since this ship is of Panamanian registry, good luck suing to get anything more. We have been on one Carnival cruise and that was enough not to EVER take another. I don't know about you, but I go on vacation to avoid crowds and rigid schedules to dine or attend entertainment. These people should grab the refund, chuck the voucher and consider the trip a lesson.
I said it before and I'll probably say it many times in the future, "You can't buy service!". Service has to be built into the equation from the start.
A husband and wife were driving down a country lane on their way to visit some friends. They came to a muddy patch in the road and the car became bogged. After a few minutes of trying to get the car out by themselves, they saw a young farmer coming down the lane, driving some oxen before him. The farmer stopped when he saw the couple in trouble and offered to pull the car out of the mud for $50. The husband accepted and minutes later the car was free. The farmer turned to the husband and said, "You know, you're the tenth car I've helped out of the mud today." The husband looks around at the fields incredulously and asks the farmer, "When do you have time to plough your land? At night?" "No," the young farmer replied seriously, "Night is when I put the water in the hole."
A census taker drew short straw and got the back-wood hills of Kentucky for his territory. He goes up to this run down shack and knocks on the door where a horribly deformed little boy (gene pool deep as a mud puddle) answers: Census taker: Hi, I'm from the U.S. Census, is your mother home? Boy: Nah....she not here. Census taker: Well, where is she? Boy: She in a instahtushun. Census taker: I see. What about you're father, is he here? Boy: Nah....he in a instahtushun too. Census taker: Ummm ok....do you have any brothers or sisters? Boy: Yeah....I got me a sister. Census taker: Oh good, may I speak with her? Boy: Nah....she not here....she at Harvard. Harvard, "what the f***?" thinks the census taker. How could this kid, with a family tree like a stump, have a sister at Harvard? Census taker: Ok...well..umm, just curious here, what's she in, Pre-Med....Pre-Law? Boy: Nah....she's in a jar.
SHAZBAT!
A doctor and a lawyer were talking at a party. Their conversation was constantly interrupted by people describing their ailments and asking the doctor for free medical advice.
After an hour of this, the exasperated doctor asked the lawyer, "What do you do to stop people from asking you for legal advice when you're out of the office?"
"I give it to them," replied the lawyer, "and then I send them a bill."
The doctor was shocked, but agreed to give it a try.
The next day, still feeling slightly guilty, the doctor prepared the bills.
When he went to place them in his mailbox, he found a bill from the lawyer.
