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Carnival - WereThey Being Sexist? You Be the Judge

Haysiedaze

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newt98

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good story steve. we had a great time meeting you and your fam, your kids are great. rhonda got a picture of your bookworm on the beach reading his book, lol. i hope you guys can go with us in two years on the aruba cruise. most of us will be going. it's not up on the site yet, but we are hopeful.;)

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Vanessa L

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And this is gonna scar you for life? Put on your big boy pants and get over it.

 

I think that was said tongue in cheek, silverado44. Did you even read the entire post? If you did and missed the jist, then that one is on you.

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cv322

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Fabulously entertaining post Haysiedaze! You're a natural-born storyteller & writer...I'd love to read a review of yours...did you write one?

 

So sorry you guys didn't win a ship-on-a-stick. Maybe next time!

 

And welcome to CC. ;).

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TahoeBob

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yes they were being sexist, and you were being outsmarted. But remember this, We as men get to do things that the women would never do in public.

 

When was the last time you saw a woman scratch there butt in public, burp very loudly or fart in public. I will tell you we have it made.

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maxamuus

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I think it’s TOTALLY sexist. I would complain to John Heald on his blog and maybe you can get a runner up prize.

Sounds like you had a great cruise despite the bruised ego and the trophy befouling your "man cave"

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pe4all

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OMG, I seriously had a teacher in elementary school who gave us that exact assignment. And it's been ages since I was in grade school. Just goes to show you that human nature doesn't change all that much through the years, lol.:)

Funny you should mention that! This is my 30th year teaching (phys.ed.) and MY 6th grade teacher gave that to me waaaaay back when. It made such an impression that I kept it in a drawer, and when I began teaching, I started to use it, also. Great lesson to be learned from this - read everything, look before you leap, etc.!!

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Our family of 4 (DS 11, DD 10 (almost 11), DW and I) just returned from the 2/21/10 sailing of the Carnival Victory from San Juan. This was our first cruise. Overall I have to say this was the best vacation we have ever taken BUT I am very disappointed in one incident that almost ruined the whole trip. The issue borders on sexist behavior by Carnival and my son and I will be scarred for life because of it :mad:.

 

I have been the Cruise Critic Junkie in the family. I have spent hours on here reading post after post. I had dreams of achieving the holy grail of Cruise Critic Members. I wanted a 24kt Gold Plastic Ship on a Stick on my very first cruise. I had resigned myself to the fact I would not be participating in any of the trivia or hairy chest contests so I knew this was out of my reach but a guy can fantasize (yea we really can) can’t he ?

 

So when my wife and daughter decided to take part in the Digital Scavenger Hunt, my son and I went out to the deck to see what they had to do. The only 2 people with the fun ship person were the two of them. We walked over closer to see if it would be cancelled and there it was in all its glory, a Carnival Victory 24kt Gold Plastic Ship on a Stick. I said to my son we are getting in this. My goal is there for the taking. The cruise director said that with the mother/daughter vs. father/son competition the event could go on. I knew I had the ship layout and location info cold. My wife and daughter would be crushed. I would share in the glory with my son. How much better could that get . We quickly got my camera and off we went. There was a list of 22 items. We had 25 minutes. We being male started off for the first item (we did look through the other 21 to see if we could knock off 1 or 2 at one location). It was a glorious time. We found 20 of 22 items in 25 minutes. Plus in the list of 22 it said you got an extra point for each grand piano, we found 3. We ran into my wife and daughter a couple times and could tell they were lost (cue in “We Are the Champions” here please). This was too easy (a red flag if I ever saw one in hindsight).

 

So both teams arrive at the appointed time. The cruise activities person starts reviewing our pictures on our camera. He starts adding them up. We score 23 points out of a list of 22. Once in while my wife and daughter would comment, we didn’t know there was an Irish Lounge (we needed a picture of a shamrock) or I didn’t know you got extra points for more than one grand piano (music to our ears). The trophy presentation would be sweet.

 

So on to my wife and daughters pictures and the sexist part. First picture is 6 people hugging each other, the words, “2 points for each person 12 points” comes out of the NOFUNSHIP cruise person's mouth. WHAT that’s cheating they had a different list then us, I scream to myself :eek: . Then 5 more points for a picture of 3 people doing see no evil, hear no evil and say no evil. Then I look at our list, there at the bottom of the paper after the list of 22 items is the “fine print” and a list of 5 bonus items. We were DOOMED. My 24kt Victory Ship on a Stick was sinking faster than the Titanic.

 

My contention is that men would not read the fine print (or at least the 2 on my team wouldn’t). We do things one step at a time. My wife and daughter read the whole sheet of paper. They found the high scoring bonus points that were easy to get. Think back to the test that starts with the words, “ 1. Read all the directions before completing the test”. One hour later the males are groaning when they see that last direction “sign the paper and turn it in, you do not have to do questions 2-99" The girls have been out on the playground laughing at us for the past 55 minutes.

 

Carnival knew this and they purposely made up the scavenger hunt list like this. We never stood a chance. So now my wife and daughter have put their stupid little gold plastic boat on a piece of plastic in my “manroom” on a shelf where my son and I have to look at it every day. I am now studying up on trivia and applying Rogain for Men on my chest in preparation for our next cruise…and there will be another cruise Carnival and it will be on your stupid ships because we loved our vacation in spite of the women’s lib meetings being held behind closed doors.

 

Only thing worse than the stupid plastic trophy is the presentation picture I had to take with my wife and daughter jumping for joy with smiles as big as could be on their faces..... ;) The same type of smile we see on all our faces in most every picture we took on our vacation.

 

I refuse to answer on the grounds my DW might kick the crap out of me.;):D Glad you had a good time. We have always wanted to do the Victory, maybe next year if I am lucky.:D

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awhcruiser

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Sounds like you're not used to losing.

 

Our family of 4 (DS 11, DD 10 (almost 11), DW and I) just returned from the 2/21/10 sailing of the Carnival Victory from San Juan. This was our first cruise. Overall I have to say this was the best vacation we have ever taken BUT I am very disappointed in one incident that almost ruined the whole trip. The issue borders on sexist behavior by Carnival and my son and I will be scarred for life because of it :mad:.

 

I have been the Cruise Critic Junkie in the family. I have spent hours on here reading post after post. I had dreams of achieving the holy grail of Cruise Critic Members. I wanted a 24kt Gold Plastic Ship on a Stick on my very first cruise. I had resigned myself to the fact I would not be participating in any of the trivia or hairy chest contests so I knew this was out of my reach but a guy can fantasize (yea we really can) can’t he :D ?

 

So when my wife and daughter decided to take part in the Digital Scavenger Hunt, my son and I went out to the deck to see what they had to do. The only 2 people with the fun ship person were the two of them. We walked over closer to see if it would be cancelled and there it was in all its glory, a Carnival Victory 24kt Gold Plastic Ship on a Stick. I said to my son we are getting in this. My goal is there for the taking. The cruise director said that with the mother/daughter vs. father/son competition the event could go on. I knew I had the ship layout and location info cold. My wife and daughter would be crushed. I would share in the glory with my son. How much better could that get :) . We quickly got my camera and off we went. There was a list of 22 items. We had 25 minutes. We being male started off for the first item (we did look through the other 21 to see if we could knock off 1 or 2 at one location). It was a glorious time. We found 20 of 22 items in 25 minutes. Plus in the list of 22 it said you got an extra point for each grand piano, we found 3. We ran into my wife and daughter a couple times and could tell they were lost (cue in “We Are the Champions” here please). This was too easy (a red flag if I ever saw one in hindsight).

 

So both teams arrive at the appointed time. The cruise activities person starts reviewing our pictures on our camera. He starts adding them up. We score 23 points out of a list of 22. Once in while my wife and daughter would comment, we didn’t know there was an Irish Lounge (we needed a picture of a shamrock) or I didn’t know you got extra points for more than one grand piano (music to our ears). The trophy presentation would be sweet :rolleyes: .

 

So on to my wife and daughters pictures and the sexist part. First picture is 6 people hugging each other, the words, “2 points for each person 12 points” comes out of the NOFUNSHIP cruise person's mouth. WHAT that’s cheating they had a different list then us, I scream to myself :eek: . Then 5 more points for a picture of 3 people doing see no evil, hear no evil and say no evil. Then I look at our list, there at the bottom of the paper after the list of 22 items is the “fine print” and a list of 5 bonus items. We were DOOMED. My 24kt Victory Ship on a Stick was sinking faster than the Titanic.

 

My contention is that men would not read the fine print (or at least the 2 on my team wouldn’t). We do things one step at a time. My wife and daughter read the whole sheet of paper. They found the high scoring bonus points that were easy to get. Think back to the test that starts with the words, “ 1. Read all the directions before completing the test”. One hour later the males are groaning when they see that last direction “sign the paper and turn it in, you do not have to do questions 2-99" The girls have been out on the playground laughing at us for the past 55 minutes.

 

Carnival knew this and they purposely made up the scavenger hunt list like this. We never stood a chance. So now my wife and daughter have put their stupid little gold plastic boat on a piece of plastic in my “manroom” on a shelf where my son and I have to look at it every day. I am now studying up on trivia and applying Rogain for Men on my chest in preparation for our next cruise…and there will be another cruise Carnival and it will be on your stupid ships because we loved our vacation in spite of the women’s lib meetings being held behind closed doors.

 

Only thing worse than the stupid plastic trophy is the presentation picture I had to take with my wife and daughter jumping for joy with smiles as big as could be on their faces..... ;) The same type of smile we see on all our faces in most every picture we took on our vacation.

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I went to a meeting once where part of the course was learning to following instructions.

 

They gave us a sheet with a list of instructions. The first instruction was that we should read the entire list of instructions before doing anything. This was followed by a list of things to do which made you look really stupid including things such as standing up and announcing that you were following all of the instructions on the list.

 

The very last instruction read - "ignore all the above instruction, sit quietly and smile, and watch the rest of the class make idiots of themselves.

 

I am forced to admit that I was one of the idiots, not one of the smilers.

 

DON

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As much as it pains me....

 

 

Thanks for good reading story as well as the victory pic....You are correct however that the deck was stacked against you and your son as everyone knows we never do read the fine print, look at instructions and never, never ask for directions.

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Haysiedaze

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What a wonderful story! You should be a writer. Do tell if you did a cruise review and where to find it. If you didn't, how 'bout it?

 

Thanks to all of you for the kind comments. I have started to write a summary of my trip in order to help me remember it. Once done I'll see if I feel it is Cruise Critic worthy.

 

I'll give you a brief summary though. This was an outstanding trip for our family and it was our first cruise. We did everything together. We met people from all over from our roll call. The friendships we made added so much to our trip. Dinner with the other 6 people at our table made every main dining room meal enjoyable. We have many family memories made with our cruise critic friends.

 

We didn't care about booze smuggling it wasn't a family activity. We found food we liked from sun up to sun down. The next to last day we had pizza and ice cream for breakfast. That puts smiles on kids faces! We enjoyed the shows we went to. We didn't play at the casino. We enjoyed quiet times on our balcony. The ship was immaculate. People cleaning everywhere. We had very calm seas during the cruise. We had excellent service from our steward and the dining staff. We made it a point to say good morning or hi any of the crew we walked by on the Victory we were rewarded in kind. We would love to do a Victory Cruise again.

 

Our excursions were all booked privately because of the info on the Ports of Call board. We did not use Carnivals excursions. We did the Sea Lion Encounter at Coral World (St Thomas), Bumpiing Tours (Dominica), Cosol (St Lucia), Rose & Jims (St Kitts) and Shasa (Barbados). All I can say is my wife who did none of the planning told me on the last day that I did a great job choosing the tours. The kids both agreed. That made my day.

 

Some small memories that make me smile. My daughter being afraid the ship would sink to the point she asked the steward for a childs life vest in her room. Yes she checked to see if there was one first. That was the first day. By the last she didn't want to leave. My son learned to make towel animals. I had a whole zoo every night in my room (no towels to shower with though). My wife dancing with Mardika our assitant waiter. Me having the lead female singer at VROOOM sit next to me and sing to me. My family still laughs at how shocked I looked. The look on my daughters face when the cast dancing to Macho Man ripped off their pants. It was priceless. All of us have photos of Omar a 300 lb sea lion kissing us at Coral World. On the ship people stayed away from me because it smelled like I was wearing Sardine No 5 cologne. My wife playing air hockey with the kids. The scavenger hunt. There are many more. We have over 1000 pictures and we have been watching slide shows of them since we got home. Nothing will ever take these memories from us.

 

Oh and our kids never had time to check out Camp Carnival we were too busy being a family.

 

We truly enjoyed Carnival and all it had to offer.

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