CRUISING FOR SINGLES
A reason for running away to sea

If single men realized what
a tempting banquet of single
ladies awaited them on a
cruise, the ships would be
mobbed. As it is, there are
far more single women
passengers than men.

However, there is some
light in the darkness for
younger single women - by
way of hundreds of hand-
some, young, SINGLE,
officers and crew. And the
young women that I talked
to were having a marvellous
tuume.

Our cruise presented a bit
of a problem to the Chief
Dining Room Steward. For
the second sitting of meals
he had no less than 40 young
attractive girls to seat. What
to do? If he scattered them
around the room, every
young steward on the ship
would be working at half
speed, spilling soup on the
other passengers as he ogled
the pretty women.

With a stroke of genius, he
grouped ali forty in one
balcony area and assigned
his most. stable staff
members to work there. In
addition, he warned
everyone NOT assigned to
the balcony that they'd have

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by Barbara
McCreadie

midnight buffet duty every
night should they be found
visiting the balcony.

Did that stop anything?
Not noticably. Except that
there was a heiluva lot of
staff appearing to serve the

midnight buffet.

As for young, single male
passengers, there were only
two that I saw and since they
persisted in calling each
other “Darling,” I doubt if
they were interested in the
arrangements. | know for
sure that if I had a son who
had just done something
splendid like graduate from
university with honors I'd
want to give him the gift of a
lifetime - a ticket on the
Love Boat.

If the pretty passengers
didn’t suit him, I counted
about 25 of the prettiest
young English girls em-
ployed about the ship.

As a rule-of thumb about
cruising for singles: Short
cruises and cheap cruises
attract more young
passengers. Longer, and
more expensive Ones attract
more of the older set.

On the first kind, the
activities will reflect the age
of the passengers. On the
second kind, the activities
may be a bit more sedate but
the competition is less.

As for permanent relation-
ships developing, who
knows’? One of my favorite
stories concerns the young

lady passenger who asked
her new-found lover, a ship's
officer, what they would do
tomorrow when the ship
reached it’s destination. “I
don’t know about you, lady,
but I'm going to get to hell
home to my wife and kids.”

I'm not sure if that story is
true or not but here are two
that I KNOW are true - and
you'll probably like them
better.

The first concerns a close
friend of mine, Donna
Chiodi. As a young girl, she
went on a Caribbean cruise
with her parents - Costa
Lines Frederico “C” to be
exact. On board she met a
young dining room steward
named Gionni Chiodi.

That was 12 years ago.
Donna and Gianni own and
operate the Bar Principe
near the central station in
Genoa. Have two litde kids.
Nice people.

The second story concerns
the current Captain of the
Island Princess. And the
story I heard came from the
best possible source - his
wife. She was a young single
girl travelling home _ to
Australia aboard a_ ship.
“Going home to please the

Canada Day - not Dominion Day

OTTAWA (UPC) - The July
1 Dominion Day holiday
could officially be renamed
“Canada Day” this year - but
only if the opposition agrees
to Limiting debate on such a
motion to one day, Sports
Minister Gerald Regan said.

“There is a Obill_ that
provides for the name
change,” Regan said dumng
question penod in the House

of Commons.

“The bill could pass in one
day - in this the year that the
constitution was patriated -
if the opposition is willing to

undertake such = co-
operation,” Regan said
replying to a question from
Liberal MP Maurice
Harquail.

However, Opposition

leader Joe Clark and NDP
leader Ed Broadbent could

offer no such guarantees.

“My personal view is that
the name should _ be
changed,”’ Clark told
reporters outside the House.
“But we'll have to look at the
bill and discuss it in caucus.”

Broadbent also said he
had no personal objections
to the name change but
added that it would have to
be discussed by his party's
MPs.

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farmer.”

The first officer on board
was our Captain Chester. He
soon became HER Captain
Chester. They live in
England and have two kids.
She was on board the ship
during our cruise as part of a
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