That’s pretty pathetic since you can grub down unlimited amounts on board prior to heading out.
Maybe some people thought it was just more free sh** provided by the cruise line or US Federal Gov’t?
But they did pay for it, with their taxes. But I still think they are wrong as can be.
I was living in Florence and stopped to see a friend at a hotel. There was a bus for American students waiting out front. By the front desk, there was a table with their breakfast : coffee, juice and a pastry.
Instead, they stormed the continental breakfast for the hotel guests with these meteosexual students whining that they were hungry.
I was mortified and ashamed and did not identify myself as American.
Why do I suspect it’s Chinese & Chinese-American tourists doing this? I just can’t imagine West Coast liberals raiding a homeless shelter for free stuff...but the Chinese? Oh, yeah.
Many of the cruising clientele on these Alaska cruises are the liberal tree huggers, love a glacier types and they are always looking for a free hand out even though most are 1% ers.
“The season opened this week, and one of the hidden items that happens as a result of the proximity of the day shelter to downtown and the cruise ships is we do often get the husband who doesn’t want to go shopping anymore to come to the shelter to sit — seriously — to drink our free our free coffee, use our free bathrooms, and eat our free donuts,”
OK, I can see going in to use the bathroom, maybe sit down. But eating the food? C’mon. Cruises are food orgies. Still, I think the shelter could make this a positive. Put up donation jars and start asking people who are obviously tourists to donate. And hit up the cruise lines for donations. I bet they would give them money and food for the publicity.
This article makes little sense. What kind of cruise passenger would even want to visit some dirty homeless shelter to have some of their stale doughnuts and coffee anyhow?
The shelter relies on donations and funding from the city and its borough, and it’s requesting more money from officials.
Did the passengers use the complimentary shopping carts to haul some extra boxes of donuts back to the ship?
That’s the good thing about having showers at the office (i.e., they have a gym there).
You can show up for breakfast at the local homeless shelter on the way in while you’re still looking grunged out.
That is shameful.
Those cruise ship passengers are probably counting their pennies at that point after paying thirty bucks for a hamburger on the dock.