Cruising Story

butchde · August 22, 2008

Hi Everyone

GottaCruz has been asking me to post this story for ever and I haven,t done it yet so here goes

The year was 1997 my son Steven was 13 years old and my daughter Andrea was 16 years old.

This was their first cruise and our third one. We had just gotten onto the Carnival Imagination and headed up to the buffet for lunch. It was very crowded and we had a hard time finding a seat but we finaly did. We all headed up got our lunch and came back to the table ok all is well so far..............

My son had gotten french fries hamburger etc everyone got what they wanted. My daughter started doing something which I had to correct her for so my attention was on her when my son said "dad I can't get the ketchup out of the bottle". (Parents you know how it is when your kids are taking all your attention) So I grabbed the ketchup bottle from him the lid was still on and in one swift motion I swung the bottle from right to left and side to side to loosen the ketchup. What I didn't know was the lid was just on top and not tightened. Well Ketchup went up in the air to the right to the left and all over, people starting running away (remember very crowded) I think I got everyone within 50 feet of me including myself. Ketchup went all over me as well as in my face, eyes down my white shirt (oh by the way ketchup burns when it gets in your eyes) Here I am standing at this table no one in sight they had all run away. ( they were pretty ticked off I am sure) My wife and both my kids were laughing hysterically. I wanted to crawl under the floor.........

We went to our room and washed my shirt in the shower and dried it with the hair dryer we hadn't gotten any luggage yet and I didn,t have any extra shirts ( learned my lesson about extra clothes) During the cruise whenever we would go to the buffet we never had a problem getting a seat in fact people would give up their seats to get away from me..... far far away. So this is my ketchup story and after all these years my kids are still laughing about it and whenever I touch a ketchup bottle everyone still runs. I hope everyone has a good laugh reading this.

Butch

coloradocruisers · August 22, 2008

Was that you. I have a 10 year old dry cleaning bill I need to send you. :laugh:

rogue · August 22, 2008

That's the type of story that you say "I'll laugh at this someday." Well, today's the day. :laugh: :laugh: :laugh:

JoeyandDavid · August 22, 2008

funny story!!

cruisetarp · August 22, 2008

very funny Butch - I'm happy you decided to share that story with us.

cruisingcats · August 23, 2008

Liked your story. :biggrin:

Something similar happened to me but it was a bottle of french salad dressing.

sailingrose · August 23, 2008

I'll remember to check the ketchup botlle from now on! LOL

deb1220 · August 24, 2008

Thanks for sharing, Butch - very funny....I could just picture it! :laugh:

jacketwatch · August 25, 2008

That is very funny. :biggrin: Want to know my embarrasing moment? We went to India (my wife is from there) on our honeymoon. There was a big party for us in my wifes home and my eldest S-I-L was talking with some friends. Well she is the boss of the family and I thought to impress her so I sauntered her way with the idea to say in Hindi a term Sumi told me that was used as respect for an eldest S-I-L. I put my arm on her shoulder, she and her friends smiled......until I spoke. Then they all had a shocked, bewildered look on their faces. It turns out I mispronounced the term and referred to her as my old goat! :biggrin: Well as I am alive to tell this you can see they forgave me. :smile:

coloradocruisers · August 25, 2008

That is very funny. Want to know my embarrasing moment? We went to India (my wife is from there) on our honeymoon. There was a big party for us in my wifes home and my eldest S-I-L was talking with some friends. Well she is the boss of the family and I thought to impress her so I sauntered her way with the idea to say in Hindi a term Sumi told me that was used as respect for an eldest S-I-L. I put my arm on her shoulder, she and her friends smiled......until I spoke. Then they all had a shocked, bewildered look on their faces. It turns out I mispronounced the term and referred to her as my old goat! Well as I am alive to tell this you can see they forgave me.

Pardon me while I laugh at your embarrassing story. It is very funny, as long as it's someone else. :laugh: