I've met several nice people this month thanks to B.C. Ferries. About 10 days ago I met two ladies from Seattle who were on the same boat as I was. They stopped to watch me work on my eggshells and we chatted for a while. Then one of the ladies chose an eggshell to take home and give as a gift to a new mom. The shell was covered in beads and a collage of animals inside gold outlined flower petals and inside the shell were more of the animals and the figure of a baby boy. I was quite happy to see the shell going to a new family. I gave each of the friendly ladies a card.
Yesterday my husband and I decide to go to Vancouver and have lunch with our daughter and her boyfriend. We had a nice visit then started back to the Ferry for the trip home. At the Ferry Terminal we watched, with the other walk-on passengers, as an incoming Ferry boat struggled against the very strong wind and waves in an effort to reach the dock. I gave a couple of my cards to some of the interesting people I spoke with while we were watching and waiting for our boat to be loaded. With the crashing waves and strong winds and obvious problems of the other boat, we were not really surprised to eventually hear all sailings for the rest of the day were canceled. We were now stranded on the wrong side of the water along with hundreds of other people. After a few phone calls, we headed to my brother's house via a bus and the sky train. Rush hour had the trains packed and a very nice young lady stood and gave me her seat. I was very impressed. We took my brother and his wife for dinner to a local Fish & Chip place where we were served by the friendliest, funniest yet efficient that waitress I've met in a very long time. I just had to give her a card along with the tip. The next morning my brother got us back to the Ferry Terminal by 5:30 A.M. and we got on the 7:00 A.M. sailing. We met many of the other "stranded" passengers from the day before. We were easy to identify as we all looked like we'd slept in our clothes! One of the ladies was going to be many miles from her car when we walked off the boat so we offered her a ride, as our car was parked at the Terminal. She was interesting and very pleasant to talk to and we felt privileged to have met her. I had no hesitation in giving her a card as she got out of our car.
So, thank-you B.C. Ferries for enabling me to meet some nice people I'd have never met otherwise!
You might notice that comments have been added below. They include a few more details of the day. It was suggested that I add them. :-)
You missed mentioning the most exciting part of the entire visit!!!
ReplyDeleteI assume the "exciting" part of the visit is referring to the power outage that started shortly after we arrived at my brother's house. The outage that finally ended at 4:15 A.M. so we could all get up and turn off lights and T.V. sets. Or maybe it was the water main that broke nearby and caused such low water pressure that the toilets stopped working. But then it might have been the red satin sheets my sister-in-law put on the fold out bed. The sheets were nice, but satin on a slightly sloping bed meant we spent most of the night either clinging to the bar at the head of the bed so we wouldn't end up on the floor with the blankets. That was OK though because that way we were not yet asleep when all the lights came back on, so did not have to go through the annoyance of waking up. But wait... I'll bet it was their very friendly dog who went out for a run just long enough to get very wet and find something ripe to roll in ....and then spent the night under my side of the bed. When I remember the other exciting events I will be sure to add them as well! :-)
ReplyDeleteMy computer ate half of a sentence that should have been in the above comment. The sentence originally read " The sheets were nice, but satin on a slightly sloping bed meant we spent most of the night either clinging to the bar at the head of the bed so we wouldn't end up on the floor with the blankets or trying to climb back up to the top.
ReplyDeleteHope that makes more sense.