Our big excitement for the day was watching two ladies almost come to blows at dinner time in the cafeteria. One family with three young children were on our side of the cafeteria. The kids were quite loud, but were not jumping on the tables or forcing anyone to walk the plank. Not that they could have anyway; eldest was about 5 or 6, middle child 4 and youngest was 2 or 3. They were just being kids - for the second day in a row. Mom and dad had given up on absolute control and seemed oblivious to the racket of their offspring. Can't really say that we would have done a better job, but ît looked like the parents weren't even trying. Enter two more young ones (ages 5 and 6), who proceeded directly to the table of their playdates amid excited welcoming squeals from the first three kids. I'd say this elevated excitement level went on for about five more minutes, when across from the other side of the cafeteria came the other lady. She stooped down in front off the five children and scolded that they were making to much noise and were ruining the dinners of her fellow passengers. Mom and dad's jaws dropped along with any other adults within hearing range. That was basically the entire cafeteria.. The poor children were dumbfounded and had no time to respond before the out spoken complainer launched into another verbal assault. Now, the real fireworks started when the first childrens' mother (mother bear) reared up from the table and told the busy body to address her concerns with her or her husband, but she was never to speak with her children again. Well, the busy body now reared up on her haunches and got right in the face of mother bear and advised the her that she should keep her kids quiet. Then the mother bear got even closer to the busy body and said she could at least tell her to her face and she was not to correct her children directly ever again. This didn't sit very well with the busy body and tensions escalated. Now they separated, with the first mom going to the mother of the other two kids who was trying to get their dinners from the kitchen. Now is when the AMHS security guy strolled through the scene. All was quiet, and the security guy left the scene. Then mother bear came out of the kitchen and walked past the busy body's table. She sat down alone one table away and didn't say anything at all for a minute or so. Then mother bear got up and walked over to the busy body and renewed the quarrel. She got right in busy body's space and reiterated that she was never to address her children again and that she should take such matters up only with an adult. They both were shouting and getting closer and closer to an actual physical altercation. A ferry waitress stepped up and helped to diffuse them as did husband of the mother bear. That was basically it. Not an actual cat fight, but close enough. I can see both sides of this. It sure could have been handled more civilly by both. And here nI am, making light of all that. Anyways, it was the talk of the ship for the rest of the evening and a good portion of the next day. It was probably one of those you had to have been there type things.. We were talking later with the waitress who told us that there were never situations as tense when the ferry was still operating it's bar. That was good for a chuckle.We had to watch two movies in our cabin to calm down, San Anreas and that new Terminator one
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| Margi looking at Ketchikan. |
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