Craziest table mates you have had.

[lulucornbread]

LOL omg I should stop but I'm still curious if CMs working the nursery would say "no" to a doll.

 

[alaskanabbott]

Remembered seeing a link to a video of such activities on DCL on an old post. Here is a sample of a day in the life... http://youtu.be/TXrNr1Cuypk

I'm always amazed at how there truly is someone for everyone.

 

[KalamityJane]

LOL omg I should stop but I'm still curious if CMs working the nursery would say "no" to a doll.

The funniest part to me is the dolls are in these fun poses...and look asleep.

 

[WorldWacky]

My sister is white and her DH is African American. Our table mates could not believe they were "actually married" and that "they just let you do that in California?"
Pretty amazing!

WHAT?!!?

 

[rcchello]

LOL, this was my exact thought...

A couple of years ago they had cruises out of New York City. One of the options was 5 day cruises to Canada.

 

[kitntrip]

A couple of years ago they had cruises out of New York City. One of the options was 5 day cruises to Canada.

What's wrong with Canadian cruises?

 

[mypixiedust]

I am looking forward to seeing who Disney chooses to be our table mates! I can only imagine after reading everyone's comment! I must say the baby doll freaks me out! I watched several of the videos and can't even imagine what my reaction would be. We are a conservative family, but tolerant of all. I just hope that whoever sets down with us " to break bread" is also open minded!

 

[Shazzie B]

I've probably been someone's worst table mate because I enjoy coloring and doing the quizzes in the kids menu... At 28.
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Sit with me next time, I'd join you and I'm 47

 

[kdeans1010]

I read this thread hoping not to see me. Nope! I will say last cruise my tablemates were... off and then I... I was not my best my last night.

Disney paired my group really well. I took my mom on an Eastern Caribbean Disney Fantasy cruise, somehow my uncle ended up going. So our group was me (30 something quirky adorable female), my 50 something mom, and her 60 something brother. Our table partners on paper were ideal! 30 something son, 50-60 something parents. So they were super Christian uber conservative Texans and my mom and uncle are Catholic, I'm Christian with an appreciation for other faiths... and my mom and I are pretty darn liberal. It was okay.... I kept my mouth shut about politics, my uncle and the dad/husband talked a lot. Then the son on pirate night started to play footsie with me (for the rest of the week), and I was trying to be polite, I just put my legs under my chair. They were very picky eaters and also huge meat eaters. I'm not, and when I would order vegetarian options there were weird comments "well that's an interesting dish." One night we started talking about medication (it came out that my dad is a pharmacist and I'm a LPN/CNA going to for my RN).... viagra and heart rate dropping came up at the dinner table. So I brought up my sleeping pill is an anti-depressant and anti-psychotic (to try to stop the conversation. I love researching history of medications and it's a fun fact about my sleeping pill.). Caught the mom and dad making out at one of the bars... I think they make have been having the s word right in the bar. Yeah...

So you're wondering how I could be crazy to this. I had two drinks before dinner on the last night and somehow got really drunk, and fell (hurt my ankle), told the son if he wanted to keep his foot he'd stay away from my ankle, and was that awful drunk person. After we got off the boat, flew home, I went to the ER where I work- I had severe heat/sun stroke, severely dehydrated, "severely sprained ankle," and "was dumb to drink booze and not drink water on a tropical island" - quotes from my ER doctor friend.

 

[DisneYE]

this is a cool thread. very entertaining and enlightening...
I can vouch for DCL in doing a great job in pairing like minded, like aged mates.
So when i read some of the stories on here i really feel bad.
MDR is a huge part of the cruise experience and if you are paired with bad mates it can RUIN your experience.
I say this bc our last cruise the table mates were so good (and so unlike us) we wouldn't have enjoyed our cruise as we did. They increased our experience 5x they were that good.

I really wish people would just take it easy and try to enjoy the brief time at the dinner table. After all is no more than 1-2 hours a day.

To contribute to this thread I'll say our 'craziest' mates were in 2 out of our 4 cruises:
In both cases their religions frowned upon alcohol so I had to cut back on my drinking so as to not offend them
I would usually consume 1 bottle (with DW) a night, plus beer and liquor.
In these 2 case I would restrict myself to 1 glass of wine, drink it fast and be done (and then continue after at the bars )
That's it.

We've been really fortunate with our table mates in all our 4 cruises. None of some the drama described on this thread. wow.

 

[MaryJPixie]

Because my daughter has a peanut/tree nut allergy I always make sure we have a table to ourselves, and frankly after reading these stories am glad we will never share a table with other guests.......Between the lunatic stabbing her kid with the fork and the lowlife taking pictures of the kids only at the dinner table...... I would be furious

 

[MichelleVW]

Because my daughter has a peanut/tree nut allergy I always make sure we have a table to ourselves, and frankly after reading these stories am glad we will never share a table with other guests.......Between the lunatic stabbing her kid with the fork and the lowlife taking pictures of the kids only at the dinner table...... I would be furious

Honestly those are few and far between....we've had awesome tablemates and it really added to our enjoyment of the cruise.

 

[mhsjax]

WE have been on 2 cruises, both with table mates. I WILL NOT be doing this again. I love to socialize, but on my terms and with you I wan to socialize with. We have a very active family all year, we rarely get to sit down together. I don't want to share this time with anyone else.

 

[DisneYE]

Honestly those are few and far between....we've had awesome tablemates and it really added to our enjoyment of the cruise.

This...
And to those saying "it's my time, on my terms, etc"...well, don't cruise, go to a restaurant, or order room service at the cruise or go grab a slice of cardboard pizza from the pool deck..
At the cruise, follow their rules. you get to sit where they put you and they will even try to accomodate to certain demands, when possible.
those who are hollyer than thou and put down others because they are not good enough for their quirks, well, if you can't be with other members of society at a table for 1 hour a day, then a cruise is not for you. stay home.

 

[ravensilverlight]

ok these reborn dolls... what is the reasoning for these? Did someone lose a child and they are trying to deal with it? Can that person not have children of their own? Do they prefer silent "children" b/c they detest whining? and yes, they are dolls not real humans!! ***.. why are they asking CMs to do extra work for dolls. Maybe I will have an imaginary friend who needs extra desserts everynight.

That is what I tell my server. I need three entrees please.... One is for me, the others are for...um, my friend...he only shows up at the table when you step away.

These two posts made me literally laugh out loud. Until now, I have just risked the wrath of the selfishness gods and ordered two things for myself when I wanted them (In fact, I and my 3 tablemates ordered literally everything on the menu on not one but TWO occasions on our last outing...but I digress). Thanks to you, I can now simply tell my waiter, "I'll have the lobster, please, and my imaginary friend would like the steak. And we'll share the chicken, if you don't mind."


Back to the original topic...
In my cruises on DCL, we have been randomly seated with other adults-only couples 4 out of 7 times (once we were alone and twice we traveled with a group large enough for our own table). Each time we were at either a 6 or 8 top. We always did the small-talk thing, and enjoyed meeting our tablemates - not a crazy in the bunch. The oddest thing any one of them ever did was the woman who only ate white foods - every night she ordered a boiled chicken breast, plain, with white rice. After the second night, the server brought over a menu for her, and when she opened it, the pages inside were blank. He smiled and said, you don't need to decide, I already know what you want!

I've been on other lines, and really, crazy tablemates are the exception rather than the rule. I'm just really glad that I can put up with most levels of oddities (comes with the job I'm in!) and I know that if my tablemates are truly unmanageable, I can just ask to be moved. I've never heard of a ship being so full that there isn't another place to put someone at dinner.

 

[MsJiminyCricket]

We prefer to sit alone as we are on a family vacation and there to be with each other. We did have table mates once and they were great.

That said, we were on one cruise where we repeatedly ran into a specific family and their friends-- with their kids-- at bars. The parents were always double-fisting drinks, cursing and talking about their 'wild child' dAys and all of the STUFF they did and still do (read whatever you want into that, I'm sure it was included) and the kids were always looking somewhere between mortified and 'this is my life.' Now, I don't care if people drink (although I was always there getting a glass of water), but this was an earful I didn't expect on a family vacay in front of kids.

 

[PnkRockPrincess]

We've always requested a table to ourselves. Each time we get close to a cruise, I think "why don't we try mixed seating and see if we make friends!" and then a thread like this pops up and I think better of it!

I'm afraid that we'll be the ones people post their "craziest table mates" posts about! My husband and I own a nightclub in a big city. We're atheists. We both have tattoos AND piercings. I have pink dreadlocks down to my waist. We share a bottle of wine with dinner almost every night on our cruise even though we don't really drink at home. I never understand when posters are like "they'll save the leftovers for you for the next night" 'cause we never have leftover wine! But we're both politically fairly conservative and somewhat socially liberal. Our son is a little socially awkward and a little nerdy. I think we're adorable! But, I can see how most people wouldn't mesh well with us, even though I think we're pretty gosh-darn fun!

Maybe I'll continue requesting a table of our own so we can stay the family everyone stares at but doesn't have to make polite conversation with

 

[Steve Dexter]

PnkRockPrincess, OMG we want to sit with you! We have been on many Disney cruises and have always just had a 4 top table for the 2 of us, but we have become friendly with people sitting around us. I have no scary stories at all. Sorry to disappoint.

 

[twindaddy]

We've always requested a table to ourselves. Each time we get close to a cruise, I think "why don't we try mixed seating and see if we make friends!" and then a thread like this pops up and I think better of it!

I'm afraid that we'll be the ones people post their "craziest table mates" posts about! My husband and I own a nightclub in a big city. We're atheists. We both have tattoos AND piercings. I have pink dreadlocks down to my waist. We share a bottle of wine with dinner almost every night on our cruise even though we don't really drink at home. I never understand when posters are like "they'll save the leftovers for you for the next night" 'cause we never have leftover wine! But we're both politically fairly conservative and somewhat socially liberal. Our son is a little socially awkward and a little nerdy. I think we're adorable! But, I can see how most people wouldn't mesh well with us, even though I think we're pretty gosh-darn fun!

Maybe I'll continue requesting a table of our own so we can stay the family everyone stares at but doesn't have to make polite conversation with

You sound awesome to me, want to dine with my family on our next cruise? Differences are great, and respecting them makes for a fun time! I am too chicken to get a piercing or a tattoo, so I would love to ask you questions about yours! Even in this thread, you can read some of the nastiness about others just because they are different. If someone is polite and respectful of everyone's differences, who cares?

I learned my lesson many years ago, I was in Las Vegas and went to the see the dinner show "Tony and Tina's Wedding". It was all couples, about 16 of us at a huge table. We all went around the table saying what we do, we got to your average looking middle age white guy with his wife. She was a third grade teacher, he then said "I am a greeter at Walmart". We all started laughing, and then a crestfallen look went over his face. I was really ashamed of myself, I was (at the time) your typical bay area ultra liberal who never thought about people in those fly over states, like the one this guy and his wife were from. He was the nicest, most polite person. Him and his wife said a quick prayer before they ate, and no one else at the table died because of it, even though there was snickering.

I felt pretty ashamed of myself for laughing with the group. I try to take everyone at face value now, and in five cruises I have been pretty lucky.

However, last month of the Sapphire Princess, I did want to slap the table next to us...they were sooooo rude to our OUTSTANDING server. It took everything in me not to accidentally send a steak knife over to their table via air mail. It was odd how we seemed to get our food so much faster then they did

 

[cruisinstewarts]

We have been on two DCL cruises. The first one we had tablemates and loved chatting with them about the days activities and what was planned for the evening. As the week went on we got to know them and we loved it. On our second cruise we had a table by ourselves and really didn't like that too much. We did not request to sit by ourselves either. My husband and I were upset because that is one of the hightlights of the cruise. We like meeting new people ;-)