Your best and your worst dinning companions OF ALL TIME!!!!

Hi peanuts,

12 + cruises and going strong. Thankfully, I've never had a truly bad
dinning companion (well, there was one, but that was only for one night
the second to last night of the cruise, so I don't count that -- she
was a drama enthusiast [and how many words have I spent on her for not
counting her?]). They have been gentlemen and ladies all!!! We've had
some characters, we've had some subdued sleeper types, and we've had
some truly life loving dinner pals. Who are your most memorable? Mine
was on the Grand Princess. There was me and my pal -- there was a 40+
year old tiny little woman with a crutch whom we nicknamed Marzipan
because she was shouting "that's a Marzipan", and the word Marzipan
coming out of her husky voice (big bosom) was just an inviting
contrast; a retired European couple (she a classical pianist, and
he....he wouldn't say; rather, he refused to say); and a nice older
couple, antique dealers who ran a newspaper who reminded me of my
parents. Our waiter was a hoot, and our assistant waiter was a young
woman with a Ph.D. from, then, Russia (the cruise lines paid more, she
said) - this was at that time when the Baked Alaskas were on
FIRE.....great memories. It wasn't a hopping table but there was a lot
of life experience sitting with us, and they were really a joy.