In Nov 2003 I played "the good son" and took my mother and her best friend on a 5 day cruise (first and ONLY time) on the Imagination.
My mother is a very simple country lady and always did her best in raising my brother and I and I felt it was time to say THANKS for everything that she had done for me.
You gotta remember that she had never flown before and never seen a ship larger than a bass boat!! The flight from Atlanta to Miami is a story within itself (and a hillarious one at that) but when we got the the cruise terminal in Miami and got checked in we were walking up to the ship and standing in line waiting to board and my mother looks out the window and proclaims "it is a dam* shame that they build these buildings so close together in a "big City"".
I looked over and could not help but to giggle and politely asked her to walk with me and I ponted over and said "you mean THAT building" and she said "yes, just a dam* shame ain't it?". I then told her to look down and said "you see the water down there?" and she replied "yes" and I said "that is not a building my dear, THAT is our ship!".
She looked at me with a most surprised expression, said nothing, turned around and grabbed her carry on and loudly said "there ain't no dam*ed way I am getting on that thing cause it is gonna sink" and started to walk away. I ran after her and told her "yes mom, like they sink every day" and the people around us started laughing. As I calmed her down and brought her back in line with me people started clapping and after boarding she became the queen of the bloody mary within hours!!
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In Nov 2003 I played "the good son" and took my mother and her best friend on a 5 day cruise (first and ONLY time) on the Imagination.
My mother is a very simple country lady and always did her best in raising my brother and I and I felt it was time to say THANKS for everything that she had done for me.
You gotta remember that she had never flown before and never seen a ship larger than a bass boat!! The flight from Atlanta to Miami is a story within itself (and a hillarious one at that) but when we got the the cruise terminal in Miami and got checked in we were walking up to the ship and standing in line waiting to board and my mother looks out the window and proclaims "it is a dam* shame that they build these buildings so close together in a "big City"".
I looked over and could not help but to giggle and politely asked her to walk with me and I ponted over and said "you mean THAT building" and she said "yes, just a dam* shame ain't it?". I then told her to look down and said "you see the water down there?" and she replied "yes" and I said "that is not a building my dear, THAT is our ship!".
She looked at me with a most surprised expression, said nothing, turned around and grabbed her carry on and loudly said "there ain't no dam*ed way I am getting on that thing cause it is gonna sink" and started to walk away. I ran after her and told her "yes mom, like they sink every day" and the people around us started laughing. As I calmed her down and brought her back in line with me people started clapping and after boarding she became the queen of the bloody mary within hours!!