Can you step over high thresholds?
Sitting down for supper in my favourite dining room (yes, MY dining room), I decided to indulge in a little light reading. At hand, one small flyer, received in the mail, with an offer to go sailing off to foreign lands. I didn’t even unglue the pages; the back cover was enough to keep me glued to my chair.
I understand that a firm might want to cover its privates against unforeseen risk, but this was special. The only guarantee seemed to be that they would take your fees, and keep them. Forget such details as a vessel, with accommodations, and a schedule. Bad weather; that’s beyond their control. In fact, the more I read, the more convinced I became to stay right where I am.
Take this phrase: “The right is reserved… remove from the trip, without refund… any person judged to be incapable of meeting the rigours… detracts from the enjoyment of the trip by others”. Talk about Survivor, and being voted off the island. I think the TV show came here for good ideas.
And there’s more. Mechanical problems? Not their problem. A delay in the schedule? Find your own place to spend that extra night. Insurance? Not their business. Will they cancel in the case of pestilence or war? Not bloody likely.
Surely this isn’t common across the industry. I watched “Love Boat”, and it always showed happy people. The Titanic? Before our time. Elevators are a thing, right? That other phrase about being able to climb stairs and step over raised thresholds; just for people who really want to keep their abs in place. I wish I could include the whole boilerplate text, right here, but there has to be a rule against that as well.
