What a Day at Sea!

We had quite an experience today. It was about 2:30 PM and the cabin stewards were

off duty when I flushed the toilet and the vacuum system would not shut off. We had

no direct number to maintenance and Foster picked up the phone to call passenger

services and we had no dial tone. Our cabin is at the opposite end of the ship from

their desk and of course no ship personnel were to be seen as I ran down the hall and

downstairs and told them what was happening.

The girl on duty did not get the significance of the problem and was calmly entering a

work order into the computer. I explained it wasn’t the toilet NOT flushing (a frequent

problem). It would not STOP flushing. I hurried back to the room and the vacuum was still

roaring. We decided to head downstairs and as we left the room the plumber came

down the hall. I thought he was coming about our problem but he was on another

service call. He was very disturbed when he heard the vacuum running like crazy and very happy

he came by when he did. He got it shut down pretty fast and we had service

again about 45 minutes later. It is no surprise that he was last month’s  “employee of

the month.”

I also had two visits from the telephone man as he had to take our phone and bring

us another.

Just another day at sea.