u/Veritas_Mentis

Anyone else feel like they are not seeing any ducks so far this year?

A weird observation my wife and I had at dinner today.

This just happened a few days ago at the Playmakers bar on the Allure of the Seas cruise ship. We had departed fr Florida and were getting ready to watch one of the playoff games going on in the NHL.

On Royal Caribbean ships there are limited options for sports channels and their sports bar is no exception. Plenty of TVs, but only 3 channels. My wife and I got to the bar before anyone who seemed to care and were able to out in a request to have the audio set to the only available hockey game instead of the NBA playoff game.

It was first come first served in this sense. A few people came after. Asked and were told the same. Some grumbling occurred but most understood. Except one guy…

This guy wants to watch the Tampa Bay game or the Magic NBA game. The guy kept going up to staff getting louder and more belligerent. The problem was neither of the games was actually on any of the channels; ESPN ESPN2, As this guy got more drunk and loud he started making comments about how dare the cruise ship not have the Florida team on the screens. It peaks with him screaming at the staff at the top of his lungs that “WE ARE IN FUCKING FLORIDA, how DARE you not play the lightning game”.

He was finally asked to leave but not after it was pointed out that we have not been in Florida for hours and were in International waters.

Talking with the staff and this sort of thing occurs almost once a cruise and usually worse during times when American football is being played on Sundays.