Sanctuary
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Have to vent....
As I sit here steaming/stewing, and ready to KILL someone, I'm analyzing what doing B&B means to me, and perhaps this will pass, but right now, I am seriously rethinking whether it's worth it.
I LOVE the hospitality aspect of it, and the cooking, pleasing, etc. and that's pretty much why I do it in the first place, but B&B does not really render much more than costs. The full-blown charters are the real money-makers, but in today's economy, those are few and far between, and B&B has been viewed by me as "found money" or "filler income." It doesn't really cost me much more than food and beverage expenses since the rest of the expenses attendant to B&B are fixed - dockage, insurance, etc. costs me whether I do B&B or not. I don't have a water or electricity bill. Still, B&B is not a lot of money, even at $160/night. But, on the food and beverage aspect, I really do try to go all out with quality.
I ponder this because.....regardless of how many times I tell people (even men [humor].....), "DO NOT FLUSH TAMPONS", some [delete the profanity!] flushed one anyway. If I were netting a few thousand on a charter, I'd probably fell less "mad," to put it kindly, to have to disassemble the boat's sewage system to pull a "mouse" out, fiber by fiber, string by string....but for the price of B&B, I'd rather commit murder, kill her and take my chances with a jury.
On a boat, flushing something like that is simply FORBIDDEN! And I have gone head over heals to convey that message when people first come aboard, short of a color, glossy photo brochure on "here's what happens when you flush one and here's how YOU go get it ou." ...and YES, I do have photos of "how to remove the mouse" and have been contemplating presenting those, no matter how disgusting, to the women, upon check-in. Last time I contemplated that action, I cooled off....but I'm pretty hot about it again, now.
Just cancelled the Super Bowl party scheduled for tomorrow. I want everyone OFF my boat! Call it a meltdown or what, but I'm angry, to put it kindly.
As I sit here steaming/stewing, and ready to KILL someone, I'm analyzing what doing B&B means to me, and perhaps this will pass, but right now, I am seriously rethinking whether it's worth it.
I LOVE the hospitality aspect of it, and the cooking, pleasing, etc. and that's pretty much why I do it in the first place, but B&B does not really render much more than costs. The full-blown charters are the real money-makers, but in today's economy, those are few and far between, and B&B has been viewed by me as "found money" or "filler income." It doesn't really cost me much more than food and beverage expenses since the rest of the expenses attendant to B&B are fixed - dockage, insurance, etc. costs me whether I do B&B or not. I don't have a water or electricity bill. Still, B&B is not a lot of money, even at $160/night. But, on the food and beverage aspect, I really do try to go all out with quality.
I ponder this because.....regardless of how many times I tell people (even men [humor].....), "DO NOT FLUSH TAMPONS", some [delete the profanity!] flushed one anyway. If I were netting a few thousand on a charter, I'd probably fell less "mad," to put it kindly, to have to disassemble the boat's sewage system to pull a "mouse" out, fiber by fiber, string by string....but for the price of B&B, I'd rather commit murder, kill her and take my chances with a jury.
On a boat, flushing something like that is simply FORBIDDEN! And I have gone head over heals to convey that message when people first come aboard, short of a color, glossy photo brochure on "here's what happens when you flush one and here's how YOU go get it ou." ...and YES, I do have photos of "how to remove the mouse" and have been contemplating presenting those, no matter how disgusting, to the women, upon check-in. Last time I contemplated that action, I cooled off....but I'm pretty hot about it again, now.
Just cancelled the Super Bowl party scheduled for tomorrow. I want everyone OFF my boat! Call it a meltdown or what, but I'm angry, to put it kindly.