I am 0% on a cruise right now.

Not so for my mom and brother. They called me from the deck of the Paradise to inform me about its ten decks and free drinks.

Ten decks? That\’s like a floating parking garage. Or a floating any-other-kind-of-building.

Free drinks? My brother is eleven; what does he want with free drinks?

What shocked me was the number of people on the ship who are just there to take care of the ship: 920 total staff.

And there\’s only capacity for 2052 guests. So pretty much every staff member has two guests to take care off. Like a personal assistant!

That\’s just great. Here I am in the frozen tundra scraping my windshield off at 7:30 in the morning, while my little brother has his own half of a personal assistant to do things for him.

He\’s eleven, he doesn\’t even know what to do with an assistant. There\’s going to be some poor sailor running around the 3rd sub-deck of the Paradise on some obscure errand my brother cooked up: \”Find me six unwrapped Yu-Gi-Oh cards! Mwa ha ha ha!\”

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