Anyone who has ever been on a cruise ship knows that cruise ships wait for absolutely no one. Actually, no public transportation ever waits for their passengers. If you are not there before the departure time, they will depart without you, and you will have to figure out another way to get to your destination. 

This is a lesson that the parents in this Reddit story had to learn the hard way, and it’s honestly crazy that full-grown adults have not figured it out before. What’s even more crazy, is that these parents expected their daughter to either somehow stall the ship from departing so they could board it, or simply stay behind with them, even though she got to the ship right on time. Luckily, the daughter did none of these things and allowed her parents to learn their lesson by finding another way to catch up with the ship, which they were not happy about.

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