Desparately Seeking Shipmate
April 10th, 2008. Filed under: Thursday's Travels.Anthony P, dance captain on the Holiday. You’re missed by Nancy Nurse! Tony, remember all our after hours infirmary chats and the crazy things we did to amuse ourselves. How about those big laundry carts left outside the Chinese laundry at nights? I think maybe I’m the only one on board who called you Tony, but that’s the way you introduced yourself the day we met while standing in line up on Lido waiting for lunch. You taught me some of the nuances of English. Read proper English there vs American English. You’re the one who taught me about homely. It’s such a nice word when one gets past the American usage. I often think of our attempts to create a homely atmosphere in our cabins. I carried that attempt from ship to ship and now that I’m on land, I’m still working at homeliness.
Tony, if you’re out there somewhere reading this, please get in touch. You can use my comment section. Are there any dancers or other friends out there who can give me an update on him?
There are many great things about shipboard life, but one of the bad things about it is how easy it sometimes is to lose touch with all the great people with whom one has worked, laughed and cried.