Funny Story

I got to thinking about my blog about tattoos, and it reminded me of a funny story. We were on a cruise four or five years ago. My wife a several other couples went on the "Hogs on the High Seas" cruise. On this cruise, half the ship is reserved by members of the motorcycle community. Thus the name. The problem with this is, that when the other passengers book their half of the ship, they are not informed of this.

On every cruise, a couple of times during the week they have formal night. This is where the normal passengers dress in formal attire ( tuxedos and ball gowns). You guessed it; the bikers wear leather. We were in the elevator on the way down to our six p.m. dinner seating, fully adorned in our (formal) leathers, when the door opens ,and on steps two tiny, little, older ladies. They were scared to death. Lord knows what they were thinking. They were whispering to each other about the terrors that were about to befall them, when I noticed they had cute little Irish accents. The door opened and we all got off, and I never thought any more about it.

A couple of nights later the same situation happened. We were on our way down to dinner, the door opens and on steps these two tiny, little older Irish ladies. One of them kept glancing at me like she was trying to get her courage up, and finally she asked me if my friends and I would do her a favor. I told her we would sure try. She informed me that she had called her best friend back in Ireland and told her, that her, and her sister were on the ship with a bunch of "Hells Angels". Her best friend didn't believe her. She was wondering if her sister and her could get their pictures taken with us to prove it.

When the elevator door open, we found a spot, put those two little Irish women between the six of us, and gave our meanest, baddest, grouchiest, arms crossed across our chest looks. My wife snapped the picture. The one sister looked up at us, thanked us, and said, in her little Irish accent, "By Gar, she'll have ta believe me now, I've got the picture ta prove it".

Have a nice ride, and keep the shiny side up.