Paging the Captain

07/26/2009

Paging the Captain

*this post was from yesterday*

July 26th, Sunday, At Sea

Leave it to me...I know what your thinking...

Ok, let me explain. The bandmaster on board the ship (his name is Dimitri and he is a very fine gentleman) had called me and I was returning his call. I was having a bit of a problem dialing his room because my phone is broken. That is to say, it is usable, but barely.

I was getting frustrated because I had several training sessions to get to today, and I need to know rehersal and showtimes for this evening. (I'm performing with the show band already, thumbs way up) So I pound randomly on the phone's numberpad...hear nothing but a dial tone so I hang up.

Then it rings.

I pick up.

"Dimitri?" I say.

"No this is not Dimitri, this is the Captain speaking, did you just page me?"

"I'm so sorry," I explain, horrified..."my phone is broken, I was trying to call the Cruise Bandmaster".

He said "Ok" and hung up.

I'm thinking I might get a new phone out of this one...

Jul 26, 2009 1:45:36 PM

2 Comments

Leave it to Buzzopissed off the boos in the first week, a new record! Any internet connection on the ship?

Posted by: Norm & Patti | 07/27/2009 at 04:22 PM

Hey Derrick! What ship are you on??? We love reading your entries....don't worry about the phone thing...the important thing to worry about is where you can get extra strings!! lol

:) Kim and Rich

Posted by: Kim and Rich Buehler | 08/03/2009 at 09:15 AM

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