I must be the only crew member on the ship that does not won a pair of sodding flip flops. Ever since I started with Carnival ion 1987 the chosen footwear of the crew on their off time has been that noisy squishy sounding flip flops. Everyone wears them, dancers, waiters, officers, cooks, photographers and even the Captain has a pair. I did once buy a pair and it was from a chap called Mr. Ko who was from South Korea and worked on the Holiday in the position of purser bellman. He was responsible for printing the Carnival Capers before they were re-named Fun Times and he also looked after cleaning the pursers office and other similar work. Mr. Ko worked from 6 am to 6 pm and then he was done for the day. But rather than go to the crew bar Mr. Ko would open up his cabin or as we, the crew, called it “Komart.” He had everything and I mean everything – toiletries, snacks, VCR players for sale, rumpy pumpy Videos ( I mean videos – this is pre DVD) clothes and his two specialist items…….flip flops and Korean soup. To this day, I have no idea where he got them or how he could sell them so cheap but sell them he did by the hundreds. At the end of each hard day’s work, the crew would climb out of their work shoes and into a pair of Mr. Ko’s flip flops I bought a pair from him once and I hated them. They lacerated my toes and grated the skin off the tops of my feet and by the time I had made the 30-foot journey from Mr. Ko’s cabin to my cabin I hated them so much, I never wore them again. So traumatized was I by these bastard things that my feet have neither flipped nor flopped from that day until the present day here on the Miracle. But every time I see a pair of flip flops and every time I hear that awful sucking noise they make, I think of Mr. Ko who probably is a multi-millionaire and owns the largest flip flop factory in Korea, possibly the world. Then there was the Korean soup — or as we all called it “bowl noodle hot” because that’s what it said on the side of the packet………bowl noodle hot. You just added water and two minutes later you had a bowl of the spiciest soup you have ever tasted. It tasted fantastic but bugger me it was spicy and often the next morning you would find yourself giving some serious shock and awe to the toilet. Anyway.............flip flops. Do you own a pair ? See you tomorrow for some quick fire questions cheers
Posted on: Sat, 28 Jun 2014 23:28:48 +0000
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