Cruising Can Be Boring

[Mike OReilly]

Originally Posted by sailorboy1

I love reading on an Internet forum how happy people are to just sit around and watch the grass grow for days on end!

Written by the fella looking for good, free Internet? . What? Not enough grass growing over your way

Seriously though, I have good friends who just can't sit still. They always have to be "doing something." They have to have plans, a schedule, to get things done, to be going somewhere or seeing something...

And then there are people (like me) who can sit and navel gaze for days. There's always something to do, even it that means watching the waves dance in the sunlight and wondering how it can look like star light in mid-day.

There's no Right or Wrong way. People are different, which is a Good thing. Do what makes you happy, and don't denigrate others if they do something different (like watching the grass grow).

[sailorboy1]

When it comes right down to it, there's always something to do not matter what. But it could be veeeery boring!

And yes I what the Internet!!!!! This is the year 2017 and I live on a boat not a cave.

And it doesn't have to free, I paid more than once for the Internet while in the Bahamas and sometimes it was waste of money.

[Mike OReilly]

Originally Posted by sailorboy1

When it comes right down to it, there's always something to do no matter what. But it could be veeeery boring!

Well said. I think this sums things for perfectly .

[chris95040]

Originally Posted by Mike OReilly

...

dude are you gonna tell us about falling down the elevator shaft or what?

[Kenomac]

Originally Posted by chris95040

dude are you gonna tell us about falling down the elevator shaft or what?

It's probably a very similar experience to the one I had 12 years ago when I fell down two flights of stairs and had a 700 pound grand piano land on top of me.

Life looks much different after an experience like that, 'changes your entire outlook.

Right Mike?

Ken

[Mike OReilly]

Originally Posted by Kenomac

It's probably a very similar experience to the one I had 12 years ago when I fell down two flights of stairs and had a 700 pound grand piano land on top of me.

Life looks much different after an experience like that, 'changes your entire outlook.

Right Mike?

It sure does.

Brings into focus what is really important in life. Like how to enjoy the moments, taking the time to appreciate what is in front of you -- and the importance of landing on your feet if you're going to fall seven floors .

P.S. "a 700 pound grand piano land on top of me"... ouch

[JPA Cate]

OOOOooookaaay, Mike,

How, exactly, came you to fall down an elevator shaft? The falling part was easy, I know, once there, but how on earth....???

Ann

[Kenomac]

Originally Posted by Mike OReilly

It sure does.

Brings into focus what is really important in life. Like how to enjoy the moments, taking the time to appreciate what is in front of you -- and the importance of landing on your feet if you're going to fall seven floors .

P.S. "a 700 pound grand piano land on top of me"... ouch

I limped away with just a bruised knee on the day I shoulda died. The very corner of the grand piano got caught on an 8 inch tall concrete flower pot which prevented the upside down piano from completely crushing me.

It caught the piano by less than two inches. Every day since has been a gift.

[chris95040]

Originally Posted by Kenomac

I limped away with just a bruised knee on the day I shoulda died. The very corner of the grand piano got caught on an 8 inch tall concrete flower pot which prevented the upside down piano from completely crushing me.

It caught the piano by less than two inches. Every day since has been a gift.

ooof.

[Mike OReilly]

Originally Posted by JPA Cate

OOOOooookaaay, Mike,

How, exactly, came you to fall down an elevator shaft? The falling part was easy, I know, once there, but how on earth....???

Well... this is really taking this thread off on a tangent, but since a moderator asks

It was kinda like one of those game shows, where the host asks the contestant to pick Door #1, or Door #2. Anyway, I picked the wrong door.

Doors open. I didn't look. Down I go.

Didn't get the prize ... or maybe I did (appreciation of life at a young age... and all the jazz). All I know is, I used to be 2" taller .

[JPA Cate]

OH MAN!

Mike, great on your epiphany, but sorry about the 2". A survivor of two spinal fusions, and one spinal decompression surgery, I have some idea what that means. Mega-ouch.

By the way, when I'm posting, mostly, if I'm moderating, I do it in blue color, to differentiate it from my more or less normal pontificating. I figured that it would be okay to ask, or you'd never have mentioned it. However, just because someone asks doesn't mean you have to answer.

Moderation comments will come to you via PM or in open forum, but labeled as such, regardless of color.

Ann

[daletournier]

Boring to me is the thought of mowing lawns, washing cars, painting houses and shopping at Harvey Norman on Saturday afternoon with boss (partner).....cruising on the other hand is the alternative to a " creeping death of sameness".

[double u]

Originally Posted by daletournier

Boring to me is the thought of mowing lawns, washing cars, painting houses and shopping at Harvey Norman on Saturday afternoon with boss (partner).....cruising on the other hand is the alternative to a " creeping death of sameness".

couldn't have put it better (as non-native-speaker)
now "on-the-beach" for nearly 18 years after 17 years & 3rtw cruises I can only emphatically state:
if, during our peregrinations, I would ever, in a fleeting moment of weakness because of stress (foul weather, hostile "natives", whatever) have wished us "back" into a 9-5-situation (I never did!!!), now, after those 18 years of living (due to breeding reasons) in such a 9-5 situation: no comparison!!!
life ashore/without a boat is possible - but meaningless! I'm counting the days

[Seaworthy Lass]

Some of the best times on the water have been when "stuck in an anchorage waiting for the weather to change" .

SWL

[conachair]

Originally Posted by Seaworthy Lass

Some of the best times on the water have been when "stuck in an anchorage waiting for the weather to change" .

SWL

Also some of the worst of times