Strange things you hear while on STJ

[liamsaunt]

Please, keep this light and fun, like STJ is for most of us!

What wacky things have you overheard while vacationing? Tonight John and I heard someone attempt to impersonate Steve Jobs to get a desirable table at an upscale STJ restaurant. It didn't work.

[mbw1024]

hahahahahahahahhaahhahahahaahhahaa! HA!

[mbw1024]

"do you know where I can find the Villa Calarada? It's over looking a little bay with boats"

and yes I know I spelled that wrong.....but that is how it was said - Cal-a-rada.

that one still cracks me up!

[FinsUp]

Our first trip to STJ I was in line at the Starfish Market and a guy yelled to his friend, "Hey did you know Virgin Island Pale ale is bottled by Shipyard Brewing?" Friend replies, "Yes, but I prefer Gritty's Pale Ale" I had to ask myself, am I in the Virgin Islands or the Old Port in Portland Maine? Although I now know it's not so wacky, I had no idea at the time of the New England presence in STJ!!

[jimg20]

This isn't really strange. It is rather funny.

We arrived at Starfish Market late one afternoon and encountered a group of children and their adult supervisors conducting a bake sale in the breezeway. We engaged two of the young women in a conversation and I asked what they wanted to do with the money. The first one announced that they were going to go to Disney World. I asked them why they would want to leave such a beautiful place. The second one admitted, "we do live in a beautiful place. But after 11 years it gets boring."

JIM

[Puddlejumper]

I hope it wasn't La Plancha. Those guys are Mac geeks. A Steve Jobs impersonation wouldn't go very far with them. lol

[stjohnjulie]

Although I wasn't vacationing... The other day a nice older couple stopped me and the baby on the street too ooo and ahhh over Ilo.

"Oh, he's so adorable! How old is he?"

"Two months."

"Oh, so cute, and look! He has a tan!"

Wasn't sure what to say to her. So I just told her that his dad is West Indian and hopefully she will figure it out later

[Pia]

Oh Julie

So I have a few, last week in the kiosk I was asked if I was cooking breakfast (yes he was serious) - keep in mind the kiosk is probably 4'x4' inside - my reply was
Pia "am I cooking breakfast"
Tourist "yes are you cooking breakfast"
Pia "do I look like I'm cooking breakfast"
Tourist " errr no"
Pia "exactly"

the next one was the conversation with an elderly man that insisted that half the island was British - no amount of explaining (almost 15 mins) that no really the whole island was US would change his mind - I did want to tell him he needed a Passport to go to Coral Bay but stopped short

Pia

[cptnkirk]

Julie thats funny stuff

[paulandtracie]

We have had THREE different people tell us their villas (all different) were right next door to Kenny Chesney's...guess Kenny moves his house around a lot!

[SOonthebeach]

Pia I bet you get a TON of them!

[augie]

Two guys in the airport, one tells the other - "it's an OK place, I guess some of the beaches are nice, but Caneel Bay, and maybe the Westin, are the only places worth staying at."

[Maryanne]

When our daughter was 7 and we were on our first trip to STJ, she and I were parked outside of "Grumpy's Almost By the Sea," when Lindy knocked on her window and asked her if she had any money, 'cause I been drinking and I get hungry and I want to buy a chicken leg.' She never forgot that.


RIP Lindy.

[Captain John]

1. The house on Wind Swept Beach is where the Secret Service brings the Presidents, via submarine, for vacations.

2. I understand that a country singer named Kenny McChesney lives here on St. John.

3. The Baths on Virgin Gorda are named so because that's where the slave ships stopped and bathed the enslaved Africans before they went to auction.

I could go on and on.

[brenda]

John, I'll bet you could .