There’s so much to do, gettin’ ready just for you
Everybody’s busy bringin’ you a Disney afternoon
One of the things about working on ships is that after a while you start to go a little bit…insane…just a little bit.
One of my duties as event staff is that I help with bingo sales, normally it would be the event manager who does this, but I know how to do it and it gets me away from the eye-crossing work of staring at the library computer all day. But on a World Cruise bingo sales are usually pathetically slow. What it amounts to is twenty minutes of me and the DJ (who doubles as our bingo caller) attempting to keep the tiny crowd entertained while we wait for enough people to show up to actually play. We need fifteen, the fact that we have to hope to get that many shows how slow the game actually is.
This leads to various forms of insanity. Usually it’s just crazy bingo stories (yes, trust me they exist) – today though, as we were selling cards, the DJ is humming of all things “Under the Umbrella Tree” (for those of you who don’t know, it was a kids show in the late 80s..). This leads to the following exchange.
I loved that show! Could be worse of course, (I said to the guest I was selling to at the time) he could be singing the theme song to Lampchop’s Playalong
THIS IS THE SONG THAT NEVER ENDS!!
No!! Too late…dammit…it’s going to be in my head all day now…but that wasn’t the theme song you know!
No the theme song was “this is lamb chop’s playalong where kids come to play along and fun things are all we ever do!”
By this point of course the guests are not sure whether or not to laugh, run away, or sing along. This leads to an entire montage of 80s/90s children’s theme songs…
Sometimes some crimes go slippin’ through the cracks….
No wait wait! I got one: Better watch out you bad boys!
Eee! When there’s trouble you call DW! Darkwing Duck!
Dude that was my favourite! I am the terror that flaps in the night!
I am the raspberry seed that sticks in your wisdom tooth!
Oh! and what about Tailspin! you can win it in a minute if you spin it spin it spin it!
The only awesome thing about Tailspin was that King Loui was a bartender!
Oooh! How far back can we go…how about: I wanna be a caaaaaaaare bear! Ohit’llbesogreat when I’m a caaaaaaaaaaaare bear!
Oh My god! Of course: do the care bears countdown! 5 four three two one!
Er….
That look you’re giving me? That’s the look the guests were giving us too…
What can I say, bingo is really really really boring!
We make our own fun around here…