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for jim, a bit late

Posted By: gypsy
Date: Wednesday, 23 February 2005, at 4:07 p.m.

hey jim,

this is in response to your post a couple of days ago, about old age, i know its two days late but this was sent to me a long time ago and i thought of it when you posted, but i couldnt find it anywhere it took a call out to my other internet buddies and milmike came through.
i think you will like it, and with the spiraling health care costs, and if the #s are right, this is where i'm going.,

AN ALTERNATIVE RETIREMENT HOME

There will be no nursing home in my future.........

When I get old and feeble, I am going to get on a Princess Cruise Ship. The
average cost for a nursing home is $200 per day. I have checked on
reservations at Princess and I can get a long term discount and senior
discount price of $135 per day. That leaves $65 a day for:

1. Gratuities which will only be $10 per day.

2. I will have as many as 10 meals a day if I can waddle to the restaurant,
or I can have room service ( which means I can have breakfast in bed every
day of the week).

3. Princess has as many as three swimming pools, a workout room, free
washers and dryers, and shows every night.

4. They have free toothpaste and razors, and free soap and shampoo.

5. They will even treat you like a customer, not a patient. An extra $5
worth of tips will have the entire staff scrambling to help you.

6. I will get to meet new people every 7or 14 days.

7. T.V. broken? Light bulb need changing? Need to have the mattress
replaced? No Problem! They will fix everything and apologize for your
inconvenience.

8. Clean sheets and towels every day, and you don't even have to ask for
them.

9. If you fall in the nursing home and break a hip you are on Medicare. If
you fall and break a hip on the Princess ship they will upgrade you to a
suite for the rest of your life.

Now hold on for the best! Do you want to see South America, the Panama
Canal, Tahiti, Australia, New Zealand, Asia, or name where you want to go?
Princess will have a ship ready to go. So don't look for me in a nursing
home, just call shore to ship.

P.S. And don't forget, when you die, they just dump you over the side at no
charge.

Messages In This Thread

for jim, a bit late
gypsy -- Wednesday, 23 February 2005, at 4:07 p.m.

Re: for jim, a bit late
gypsy -- Wednesday, 23 February 2005, at 4:10 p.m.

Re: for jim, a bit late
James -- Wednesday, 23 February 2005, at 10:42 p.m.