Post by gato on Apr 6, 2022 5:45:25 GMT -5
I wasn't aware until I read about it: Cruise Cults. The members of this cult don't dance around a fire chanting spells, or eagerly await the arrival of a space ship travelling behind a comet. No, these folks book cruises back-to-back-to back. The ultimate goal is to pretty much never touch dry land, just leap frog from cruise to cruise.
Doesn't matter where the ships are going or how long they'll be at sea. Consisting mainly of retirees (who can afford it) these cultists live for climbing the gangplank of the next departing ship, often greeting other passengers and crew members like family.
Some of the "addicted" were so devastated by the suspension of cruises the last couple of years that they just watched Youtube videos of cruises. Not ones they were on. Not of any people they knew. Just strangers on a cruise. It would be like wistfully watching a video of a crowd of strangers enjoying a trip to Disneyland.
I went on a cruise once. Longest seven days of my life. Being cast into the Cruise Cult would for me, be like experiencing Dante's Inferno.
One of my LEO buds once invited me to the Indie 500 party of his Mustang car club. We sat in a living room watching a giant flat screen TV. On it were race cars going around and around and around. I kept glancing around the room ... were these guys seeing the same thing I was? Was I lacking a set of special 3D glasses or something? Nope. Just around, around, around ....... pod people from Invasion of the Body Snatchers ...not unlike being on a never ending cruise ............
Doesn't matter where the ships are going or how long they'll be at sea. Consisting mainly of retirees (who can afford it) these cultists live for climbing the gangplank of the next departing ship, often greeting other passengers and crew members like family.
Some of the "addicted" were so devastated by the suspension of cruises the last couple of years that they just watched Youtube videos of cruises. Not ones they were on. Not of any people they knew. Just strangers on a cruise. It would be like wistfully watching a video of a crowd of strangers enjoying a trip to Disneyland.
I went on a cruise once. Longest seven days of my life. Being cast into the Cruise Cult would for me, be like experiencing Dante's Inferno.
One of my LEO buds once invited me to the Indie 500 party of his Mustang car club. We sat in a living room watching a giant flat screen TV. On it were race cars going around and around and around. I kept glancing around the room ... were these guys seeing the same thing I was? Was I lacking a set of special 3D glasses or something? Nope. Just around, around, around ....... pod people from Invasion of the Body Snatchers ...not unlike being on a never ending cruise ............
