Rebecca Morrison tells Newsweek about a heart-wrenching experience during a college vacation.
Within a couple of days, my friends and I hit a routine; wake up for a late lunch at the tourist-packed pool, walk around sucking in our stomachs while taking quick dips in the water, spend hours adjusting our outfits and hair, and finally, far too late, squeeze into a decades old cab, smelling of cigarettes, to go to a Mexican-themed franchised bar.
The small salt-water-rusted boat, made for maybe ten people, carried over three dozen of us across the choppy blue-gray waters to an island where there would be a dinner buffet and show, including a singing competition. One of my friends nudged me to go up on stage, so I raised my hand. As I took the stage with a cohort of other volunteers, the emcee told the crowd we would all be singing Frank Sinatra'sRebecca Morrison pictured with her friends on her vacation to Cancun in 1991, performed a song by Frank Sinatra during her booze cruise, but the reception was not what she expected.esque boys and me. The boys were first.
I walked to the middle of the stage and looked out at the throng of college kids. I started singing, kicking my thigh-high booted legs diagonally, like a member of The Rockettes. Once the words left my mouth, a euphoria swept through me. I scanned the audience; pointing to each person I'd seen booing and shouted,""F*** you!" at each of them, marking them separately.""F*** you!"F*** you!"F*** you!" Again and again.
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