I agree with you .I have written one.
Last week I saw an interview with an American author.He was asked how many books he read in the last decade.He replied 50.That shocked me .
I never went to a pro team opening night,however,I was at Opening day of Shea Stadium to see the METS.I do not have a tee shirt but I kept my ticket stub.My seat in the mezzanine cost $2.50.
I have the stubs from every Mets game I went to as well as stubs from most of the concerts I went to dating back to the 1960’s.
On nearly every cruise that we have been on with strangers after lengthy conversations we find that we share something in common.Example :
A Professor from Penn State and I graduated the same HS.
My father came to the US in 1913 from Liverpool.It was not a cruise ship but it was an elite ship.The menu that he ordered from could easily have been a 2023 menu.Obviously I cannot know how the food tasted.
I was responding to the individual who stated that the baggage handlers receive other benefits.In the instance I cited they do not nor do they need to because they receive benefits from their primary job.
I gave $5 a bag to the people at the port putting the luggage on the ship.
We always had a maximum of 2 suitcases and gave the Porter bringing the suitcases to the car $10.00.When I was physically able I brought my own luggage to the car.
My definition is that the Porter takes luggage to one’s car and the Baggage Handler brings the luggage to the ship.
I have no idea what that is but the last time I cruised from Bayonne I was in a wheelchair and a Porter was taking my bags no my wife’s to our car.
We got into a conversation about his working there and he said that he was not a union member .Could he not have been telling me the truth ,possibly.However,on a cruise from Manhattan a few years before the Baggage Handler at the port had an ID .His rather unusual last name was the same as a guy I worked with 25 years prior and I inquired if he was possibly related.The guy was his father .The guy I was talking to was a school teacher working occasional Sundays at the port and not a Longshorenan .