I expect it would cost a good deal more to be continuously ready to pull it off than anyone would be willing to pay for the service. I don’t expect they’re planning to be late in order to somehow get some great benefit from it, after all; they’re just oblivious, and screwing up by accident. And they’re not going to realize they’re doing it until the last moment (or sometimes later.) So you’re going to have to have an official-excursion-hampering team in place for every stop of every tour ship, and they’re going to have to be in the right spot to be able to hamper each of those specific excursions, and be paid well enough to risk the potential local penalties, official or otherwise, for doing the hampering. But most of the time nobody’s going to need to call you up; so the few who do are going to have to cover the costs of the whole shebang.
I thought of that. I envision this as a subscription service, rather than paying for each individual event. If 100 passengers on a large cruise ship are my subscribers, at $100 each, it starts to add up.
But your target market is the people who don’t plan ahead. The ones who do will either stick to the official cruise-company excursions, or make sure that they get back from their third-party excursions on time on their own. The ones who get left behind right now are the ones who either don’t know that the ship will really leave without them, or don’t believe that they’ll be late, and neither of those groups would pay for your subscription.
I don’t have all the details worked out yet.
I was actually thinking the opposite would be more likely. People will subscribe. Then, as they’re on their third-party excursion, think to themselves “hmm, the ship is leaving soon, but I can just call Cruise ‘B’ Late and buy myself fifteen extra minutes. I’ll be fine”
They call me, I delay one of the official tours by fifteen minutes, but the subscriber arrives sisteen minutes late and misses the ship, anyway.
i do remember that some nearly stranded cruise people managed to get on the boat that came for the harbour pilot. he got off the ship, they got on.
- Invent scheme.
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- PROFIT!
Icebergs are a whole different department
Besides a schedule to keep, at some ports they have to leave at a set time to catch the tide. Time and tide wait for no man is an aphorism for a reason.
Railroad passenger schedules are often the same way. Checking east and westbound (or north and south) transit times near the terminal destinations, there can be a 30 or 40% difference between the two for the last several stations. It is, indeed, called padding the schedule.
Pilot transfers to/from large ships are kinda dangerous and take personal skill. Even moving from the pilot boat to a similarly sized lighter from the cruise ship is pretty fraught.
I’m not disputing your personal experience, but that must have been both very rare and very benign conditions for either Captain to expose themselves to the risk of risking their passengers in that way.
It was a small cruise ship from phila to Bermuda. Not one of the really big celebrity cruise ships. I remember 4 people doing it. This was the days before camera phones… but people did camcorder and take photos.
I found this. I don’t think it would work if you are 80 something, but late 20 early 30s… it does cost quite a bit.
it could easily cost a robot-arm and a leg
Never realised he was this much of a dunderhead.
He endorsed Biden because CFSG was just too much for him.
His fans are among those who would from time to time appear as subjects of this thread.
Do not piss off the stupids MFers.
Let me amend that slightly …
Do not piss off the stupids MFers if you need them to like you to earn your living.
Other than that, pissing off the stupids MFers seems like a great idea and more people should do it.
My consideration is that Stupid MFers do stupid shit, and sometimes the effects of that stupid shit can spill over into the lives of non-SMFs. Moreover, when you piss them off, the stupid gets amplified and can become much more troublesome.
However, being careful not to piss them off often results in allowing them to carry out a lot more of their stupid shit than they would be able to do otherwise; thereby spilling over much more drastically into the lives of others.
Sometimes it’s not worth it and I’m not insisting everybody get into a fight with every Willfully Stupid Relative – I’ve got at least one of my own with whom I just Do Not Talk Politics. But sometimes it’s just plain necessary.
CFSG?
Cheeto Faced Shit Gibbon.
A name bestowed upon him by a Scottish genius during his campaign.
In 2017, Pennsylvania state Sen. Daylin Leach called the president a “fascist, loofa-faced, shit-gibbon.”
In June 2016, ‘Hamfisted Bun Vendor’ posted on Twitter:
Scotland voted to stay & plan on a second referendum, you tiny fingered, Cheeto-faced, ferret wearing shitgibbon.
[Emphasis in both cases mine, of course.]
Got it. I was just about to mention in a different thread where the subject came up that I dislike the countless nicknames and acronyms for him (and plenty of others) as half the time they’re so unrelated to him, I honestly have no idea what or who people are talking about.