Our retirement years................

For those of us approaching the golden years, here's some important news
to avoid that nursing home...

About 2 years ago my wife and I were on a cruise through the western Mediterranean
aboard a Princess liner. At dinner we noticed an elderly lady sitting alone along the rail of the
grand stairway in the main dining room.
I also noticed that all the staff, ships officers, waiters, busboys, etc., all seemed very familiar with this lady.
I asked our waiter who the lady was, expecting to be told she owned the line,
but he said he only knew that she had been on board for the last four cruises, back to back.
As we left the dining room one evening I caught her eye and stopped to say hello.
We chatted and I said, "I understand you've been on this ship for the last four cruises".
She replied, "Yes, that's true."
I stated, "I don't understand"
and she replied, without a pause,
"It's cheaper than a nursing home".
So, there will be no nursing home in my future.
When I get old and feeble, I am going to get on a Princess Cruise Ship.
The average cost for a nursing home is $200 per day.
I have checked on reservations at Princess and I can get a long term discount and senior
discount price of $135 per day.
That leaves $65 a day for:
1. Gratuities which will only be $10per day.
2. I will have as many as 10 meals a day
if I can waddle to the restaurant, or I ca have room service (which means I can have
breakfast in bed every day of the week).
3. Princess has as many as three swimming pools,
a workout room, free washers and dryers, and shows every night.
4. They have free toothpaste andrazors, and free soap and shampoo.
5. They will even treat you like a customer not a patient.An extra $5 worth of tips will
have the entire staff scrambling to help you.
6. I will get to meet new people every 10 or 14 days.
7. TV broken? Light bulb need changing?
Need to have the mattress replaced? No Problem!

They will fix everything and apologize for your inconvenience.
8. Clean sheets and towels every day, and you don't even have to ask for them.
9. If you fall in the nursing home and break a hip you are on Medicare;
if you fall and break a hip on the Princess ship they will upgrade you to a suite
for the rest of your life.

Now hold on for the best! Do you want to see
South America, the Panama Canal, Tahiti, Australia,
New Zealand, Asia, or name where you want to go?
Princess will have a ship ready to go.
So don't look for me in a nursing home, just call shore to ship.
PS And don't forget, when you die, they will just dump you over the side at no cost.