Waving of Napkins??

[jb008]

I'm a country bumpkin and just clapped for the chefs and then told our server and assistant server thank you and gave them envelopes with cash (and a note saying thank you and that the cash was in addition to the gratuities I did through my stateroom).  I hope they let me sail again, even with the napkin-clapping  faux pas.

[SeaTheW0rld]

Next thing you know they'll be singing and dancing by the staff in the dining room. It's a slippery slope.

[faerievert]

I would happily wave my napkin daily to show appreciation if we have a dinner-time parade. The kitchen staff need far more recognition IMO.

[NaughtyNanna]

On 1/22/2019 at 12:58 PM, SeaTheW0rld said:

Next thing you know they'll be singing and dancing by the staff in the dining room. It's a slippery slope.

🤣🤣🤣

[OlsSalt]

Watching this last night staff recognition tradition evolve over the last 10 years, I think I can say there is no slippery slope to increasing antics. Just the opposite - they have gone from an elaborate special menu ending with sparklers on the Baked Alaska parade, with crew acts between courses (who can forget the juggling salad bowls) to now almost a non-event.

 

How or why this evolved (or devolved) over the past 10 years is unknown - passenger protests, staff protests ......any one have inside information? Fun the first time we saw it, but it felt more and more awkward as time went by.

[AncientWanderer]

2 hours ago, OlsSalt said:

Watching this last night staff recognition tradition evolve over the last 10 years, I think I can say there is no slippery slope to increasing antics. Just the opposite - they have gone from an elaborate special menu ending with sparklers on the Baked Alaska parade, with crew acts between courses (who can forget the juggling salad bowls) to now almost a non-event.

 

How or why this evolved (or devolved) over the past 10 years is unknown - passenger protests, staff protests ......any one have inside information? Fun the first time we saw it, but it felt more and more awkward as time went by.

 

No inside information, but I'm gonna guess.

In times past, people didn't cruise repeatedly, as they do nowadays.  Seeing the same "show" over and over again just gets weird and, as you said, awkward.

[Seavoyage]

Remember the hats on Dutch night?  Those were the days LOL

[POA1]

29 minutes ago, Seavoyage said:

Remember the hats on Dutch night?  Those were the days LOL

 

Still have them with our old photos in the WayBack box.

[Seavoyage]

1 minute ago, POA1 said:

 

Still have them with our old photos in the WayBack box.

We do too - That's when they had actual candles on the tables and sparklers on the Baked Alaska - The Good 'OL Days

[POA1]

10 minutes ago, Seavoyage said:

We do too - That's when they had actual candles on the tables and sparklers on the Baked Alaska - The Good 'OL Days

 

Sparklers? Candles? Flaming desserts? That's CRAZY! Thank goodness calmer heads prevailed and we only have rock walls, zip lines and bungee jumps on ships today. I remember mourning the casualties from the Great Bananas Foster Tragedy of  '02. 

[Copper10-8]

4 minutes ago, POA1 said:

 

Sparklers? Candles? Flaming desserts? That's CRAZY! Thank goodness calmer heads prevailed and we only have rock walls, zip lines and bungee jumps on ships today. I remember mourning the casualties from the Great Bananas Foster Tragedy of  '02. 

 

Baked Alaska anyone? 

[POA1]

7 minutes ago, Copper10-8 said:

 

Baked Alaska anyone? 

 

That's some serious DANGER there. I still miss flaming desserts. Of course, I died from bubonic napkins years ago. 

[OlsSalt]

47 minutes ago, POA1 said:

 

That's some serious DANGER there. I still miss flaming desserts. Of course, I died from bubonic napkins years ago. 

 

I told you not to put someone else's used sparklers in your nose, mouth or eyes. But you wouldn't listen. 

Edited January 24, 2019 by OlsSalt

[Copper10-8]

And who can forget this one around ten years ago? Forgot what they called it or who came up with it, but it involved juggling plastic fruit, singing and dancing

[POA1]

5 minutes ago, Copper10-8 said:

And who can forget this one around ten years ago? Forgot what they called it or who came up with it, but it involved juggling plastic fruit, singing and dancing

 

I think it was part of the "Master Chef Dinner." 

[OlsSalt]

Uh, oh. Forgot they gave us chef's hats to wear that night too.  They wanted it to be fun and our younger waiter was quite excited about what was coming next. The older one was more sanguine. 

Edited January 24, 2019 by OlsSalt

[whogo]

It's all fun and games until someone loses and eye.

[Terre]

Agree...we have never liked practice.  Can't imagine what kind of germs are flying around and landing on your unfinished meal!

Edited January 25, 2019 by Terre

[ithaca gal]

6 minutes ago, Terre said:

Agree...we have never liked practice.  Can't imagine what kind of germs are flying around and landing on your unfinished meal!

Flying germs?  As opposed to the ones sitting on the hand rails, elevator buttons, bathroom doors, etc?

[OlsSalt]

6 minutes ago, Terre said:

Agree...we have never liked practice.  Can't imagine what kind of germs are flying around and landing on your unfinished meal!

 

That is why God gave you a precious immune system and a liver - to isolate, detoxify and destroy any stray flying object coming off waved napkins.  

[GulfShoresCruiser]

So in Louisiana, when the jazz band enters the room....whether a funeral or wedding reception.....we grab our napkins and wave them as we join the second line parade and start parading around the dining room......

 

.......Remain calm and cruise on.....

 

 

 

[Terre]

2 hours ago, ithaca gal said:

Flying germs?  As opposed to the ones sitting on the hand rails, elevator buttons, bathroom doors, etc?

People touch those?!