The argument is still happening.
Kyle is getting kind of freaky, and talking really fast, but from what I can pick up, for whatever fucking reason, he decides to share with Nat that he only apologized because Sandy made him. He didn’t mean it, and she’s a bitch. I’m paraphrasing but that’s the gist of it.
I picked this little tidbit up from someone on Twitter. I think and I agree with this assessment. Sometimes (not all) gay dudes think it’s okay to yell and be aggressive with women. (I know also straight dudes do it) Maybe it’s just dudes.
But to me, this makes it more inappropriate the way he is aggressively coming at her when he’s a guy and she’s a girl. Not to mention her time management critique with him and Tash is actually accurate.
They spend too much time fucking off, and when you factor in that the extra time she spends on her phone with the wacko, and the fact that those two are friends, so she allows him to not complete tasks and move at a snail’s pace. So all of this really does result in poor time management, and tasks not being completed. And guess who has to pick up the slack?
I actually had two circumstances, one on an airplane and in a small theater. I’ll do the theater one, since it was worse. This all came out of nowhere to me, as I was sitting there minding my manners, with my BF at a play his friend’s daughter was in. So the gay dude sitting in front of me, decides I was kicking his chair. Which I was not. I am a very small and short person. I had plenty of room, I never once touched his chair with my foot. Nor was my BF touching his chair. One of the guys in my party was like 8 feet tall, (the brother of the girl in the play) and sitting beside me, and I think he may have bumped when he was got up and down? Or since his legs were so long, his feet may have wandered over ? I don’t fucking know, I was busy watching the play. Maybe the dude imagined it. It was so bizarre having a strange dude aggressively yell at you. For no reason. Had I kicked his chair by mistake I would have apologized.
He proceeds to turn around to me at intermission, look right at me, and I forget his exact words, but “if you kick my chair one more fucking time, I’m going to ….” something something. I just can’t see a straight dude threatening a girl like that.
Who says that to a stranger, and what dude would talk to a woman like that, who is with a guy, I might add. I was literally shocked and mortified. Let’s just say he was confronted by my boyfriend after the show, and things didn’t go too well for him. Maybe he’ll never do that again, and learned.
Anywho enough about me. But Kyle seems to give that energy of yelling at women, and maybe he thinks it’s okay because he’s gay. It’s not. He’s still a dude. He’s a large dude
Tash tries to intervene with Kyle and get him to stop acting like a lunatic. Nat is sitting there very calm, looking at him half smirking because she knows he’s making a fucking fool out himself. I admire the ability to do that.
Tash drags him to the restroom, or the ‘toilet’ as they say in Europe, which I think is funny. Even the signs say ‘toilets’ in public places instead of ‘restrooms.’
I just noticed that Tash is wearing a fucking ball gown for some reason? So she breaks up with the insane dude, and knows Dave will be sniffing around again, and she wears this to dinner?
As per usual, Nat gets pissed at Storm when they’re out, merely for speaking. He tries to tell her that the thing with Sandy and Kyle wasn’t a big deal. He’s just trying to calm her down, and make her stop arguing on their night out. But she gets pissed at him, and he gets up and leaves.
Reid tries to talk to Nat, about having a conflict in public. Basically don’t do it. Swallow it and hash it out later, so you’re not making a scene and in danger of getting thrown out. Don’t hate me, but he actually comes off as a very mature, reasonable and calm person. But does he know he’s on Bravo? This is how we roll.
Kyle comes back to the table, and he probably should not have, if he was still in this pissy ass mood.
Which he is.
Nat rejects his invitation to talk outside, and says we are no longer friends, only colleagues. I guess that’s what pisses him off again. He should just suck it up for now.
Kyle tells her they were never friends to begin with, because he never asked about her life. Fucking what? Never saw him asking about hers either. They weren’t deep convo, let’s braid each other’s hair kind of friends, but they were certainly engaging in fun banter and seemingly got along for the most part, until he got super close with Nat, and then he started slacking off.
Since this little spat seems to be reigniting at the table, again, Reid tries to to reason with Kyle to just save this convo for later, because it’s going nowhere.
Tash picks now, (finally but not the right place) to act like a manager, and tries to mediate, and tell her that, as Ried was also saying, this is not the time nor the place to do this. Nat quickly points out this has been happening on the boat during work hours and she has done nothing about it. True.
And not only doing nothing about it, but even adding fuel to the fire in their private convos gossiping about her, and egging Kyle on. Which Sandy said is not permitted so… do the math.
They move to another spot when this just needs to be called a night at this point. Everyone except for a few, are pretty much pissed off. And the ones that aren’t involved, how can this be fun?
Tash has the audacity, when she’s the chief fucking stew to say that she “doesn’t want affected in this.”
WHAT??? Nat quickly points out, and needs to remind her that she’s chief stew and is ‘affected’ in this. (does that even make any sense, affected?)
Furthermore, she seriously says she’s “not sticking up for anybody” Okay wow. So yeah it WAS bad idea to go to another place, the last thing they needed was more alcohol. And it just keeps getting worse.
Other than Kate the Bucket Full of Hate Chastain, and for different reasons, Tash really is the worst below deck of anywhere chief stew. Bad work ethic, messy personal life interfering with her job, not resolving conflict within her staff, even going to the extreme of saying “you need to work it out.”
Courtney also chimes in, by reminding her that she’s chief stew and she needs to get involved and resolve this, and she’s not being professional by letting this go on. And, yes, I think she has a right to give her point of view, even though this isn’t her department. They’re doing all of this shit in front of everyone, ruining the night. Tash keeps repeating she’s “not getting involved.”
She didn’t mind ‘picking sides’ and getting involved before, when she was bad mouthing Nat, and scolding Kyle for apologizing, right??
“You three need to have a chat!” Courtney instructs. She may not know big words, but she is 100% correct right now. It’s pretty bad when a deckhand, who aside from being promoted to ‘Lead Deckhand’ a minute ago, has no management experience, and is telling the Chief Stew how to handle a situation? Why is she telling a veteran Chief fucking Stew how to do her fucking job?
Storm and Nat seem to have patched things up, and are now canoodling in her cabin. It seems like she just doesn’t like when he, you know, talks.
He’s actually starting to come off a bit pussy whipped I would even say. Unless he’s telling her how superb she is, she doesn’t want to hear a word out of his mouth.
While I do like Tash’s ‘gown’ it’s a bit much for a casual night out, don’t you think?
Dave and Tash pair up to walk to the van, and he wants to know what’s going on with Captain Wack Job. And I think, fair question. He and Tash were a thing, they’re now on friendly terms. She gave him the brush off to get back with this guy.
He has a right to be curious and ask. She doesn’t answer, which is also her right, to not answer.
But that should be his answer. I am flabbergasted that he still wants to get with her again. What is wrong with this man? I can’t imagine he has that much trouble getting girls that he has to settle for this stupid bullshit. I guess you can rationalize by saying, you can’t help who you have feelings for and who you’re attracted to. Even if you try to turn it off.
Often it is the wrong person, and he is forced to be around her all day, every day. He needs to man the hell up, and stop kissing her ass, and adding to her inflated ego that she’s God’s gift to the entire male population.
Actually if he really does want to be that pathetic to ‘try to get her back’ why isn’t he smart enough to see that he should just ignore her, except for work related interaction, and act completely disinterested. Maybe flirt with Courtney a little. Or pretend like he’s texting someone when she’s around. Anything but gravel and beg her to get with him. Dumb ass.
She doesn’t like that he’s coming off as pitiful and needy, and I almost don’t blame her. Not a turn-on. It’s sad he rides back to the boat by himself though.
I do feel for him. I don’t have a heart of stone. Reid is carrying around a bottle of Grey Goose. Love that. Best vodka. Most expensive vodka, but ya get what you pay for, I always say. Or sometimes say.
So as if he’s really trying to come off like a pathetic pussy, he starts texting her when they go to their cabins. Professing his undying love for her. My. God.
So Tash texts him back in the morning scolding him for texting her, and ordering that he’s not allowed to text her unless it has to do with work.
So she was fine getting her phone BLOWN UP, and even responding to the psycho bitching at her every five minutes for NO FUCKING REASON, but she tells Dave to fuck off just for sending a sweet message to her. Got it. There are other ways she could have handled this, while not leading him on.
But she doesn’t care. This has become the Natasha show and it’s getting annoying. Now she suddenly has ‘boundaries.’
So we have wind knot issue.
It’s already awkward when they start their preference sheet meeting. Tash is staring into her computer as Dave sits down. I feel like if she just would have said what she said in person, since you know they are on the SAME BOAT, and stated it more like, she wants to keep things friendly, for the sake of their jobs, so there’s not another blow-up, she doesn’t want to lead him on… something like that. If she’s going to jerk guys around on boats, learn how to handle it better.
She knows he’s sensitive. Instead of a curt fucking message of “don’t text me” she should havespoken to him. So now she won’t even look at him, and you can already see this will be going really really left.
So the guests are these super active yacht people, and they’re not leaving the dock due to the wind.
Believe it or not, Tash is stepping up to the Chief Stew plate, and calling a meeting with Nat and Kyle to try to work through the disagreements that they are having. Guess she listened to Courtney.
The problem being, Kyle is lazy, Tash allows it, and even encourages it, and Nat picks up the slack.
Kyle now flips his story and claims he’s now back to being sorry.
I forget what they were even arguing about last week when Sandy heard him bitching about her. Tash just sits there like a fucking clueless mute ding dong, when she should be mediating.
After Nat tells him his apology is negated after he called her names later that night. Kyle gets all worked up, and raises his voice, and it goes up about 100 decibels when Nat points that out he’s getting aggressive, he then accuses her of being aggressive.
Nat just speaks in a little calmer tone, so that makes a slight difference, but her words are also a little combative.
Tash finally speaks up, but not to help resolve their conflict, but to complain to Nat about the things she has said to her. True, is not how you should speak to a ‘superior’ however, when the superior is not doing their job, then I think a different set of rules should apply. Tash also didn’t like it when she went to Sandy either, so pick your poison Tash. Or just be better at your job.
Also try putting your phone down. That shit would not be tolerable with a 2nd or 3rd stew.
Tash then does sound professional and manager- like when she says if they have issues with one another, let’s talk about it calmy and not name call and get all excited and worked up. Nat says she agrees.
Kyle now turns on the water works and gets all weepy, and tells her work-wise she is outstanding, and AGAIN supposedly genuinely apologizes to her. And he’s so not blowing smoke up her ass. As opposed to last time he apologized.
What gets me kind of worked up (in a Bravo kind of way) about this, is that I feel that the chief stew, the person running this operation, who should be professional (but then again we were introduced to Below Deck with hateful UNPRO AS FUCK Kate Chastain as the chief stew) is that Tash contributed to this strife by telling Kyle he didn’t need to apologize and that Nat is wrong. In addition, non-stop fueling this fucking fire instead of trying to resolve it.
Also talking behind Nat’s back, and bad mouthing her quite frequently. Tash was right about the things she was bitching about. Kyle taking a year a half to set the table, while Nat is carrying 20 pound boxes of shit onto the boat, and Tash allowing that. Constantly wasting time making all of these sugary cocktails better suited for a backyard barbecue, and not a bougie yacht excursion in the Med.
Kyle looks up to Tash, (and they’re too friendly for a boss – employee relationship) and assumed that she was giving him good advice. I think that’s why he went into dinner last night with a fucking tude. She’s a bad bad bad leader.
So Kyle uses ‘exhaustion’ for an excuse, which is ironic. That should be Nat’s excuse since she runs around like a maniac busting her ass, while he loafs around taking his time. But whatever.
Nat seems touched by his tears, that may or may not be genuine, and gets up to hug him, invites Tash in on the hug, so okay, group hug. We hope going forward, they can all work together and most importantly, Tash can step up to the fucking plate and learn how to be a leader, delegate, shut her fucking mouth when not necessary, open her fucking mouth when necessary.
Things she should certainly know by now. Without being instructed by her 2nd stew. Or the Lead Deckhand.
So group hug and looking like we’re all friends again. But of course, now tensions are high, with Tash and Dave again.
Dave is being kind of a baby I will say. Tash offers to make him a coffee, and he tells her no, let him know when it’s free and he’ll do it. I guess it’s a Keurig and you can only make one cup at a time. Seems like since these have became the thing no one uses regular coffee pots anymore. I heard those are bad because the coffee passes through those plastic cups and chemicals and something like that. Plus buying those ‘pods’ – so expensive and wasteful.
Guests are arriving, and Tash is making her cocktails.. I think she needs another outlet for her cocktail making. I do appreciate a good cocktail maker and fun pretty cocktails, I’m sort of into that myself, but it seems like a lot time put into them.
I love the crew’s total fake plastered on smiles they have, as new guests arrive. I don’t blame them, for being fake smiles, but it’s just funny.
Sandy lets them know about the weather situation and that they’re not leaving the dock today. I guess it was a good idea to just rip the band-aid, and not drag it out.
Oh well, that’s a chance you take when you do this chartering a yacht thing. I’m sure there’s a disclosure in the fine print that this could happen, and no they don’t get a refund. It’s a lot of friggin money to sit on a boat.
Okay so this 21 year old twerp that is into ‘yacht brokering’ sales ALREADY is trying to flaunt she knows about yachts, and asks Tash a really really ridick stupid question about the beam being short or some shit?? Girl. Stop. Just shut up and drink your champagne. As if that makes a difference in any type of way about your experience? Tash tells her she’ll have to get back with her. Hopefully she never got back with her.
Dave, you can tell has a stick up his ass. He ignores Tash radioing the lunch time, then bitches at her for looking for mint in the fridge. Then the mint convo goes on, when she asks if there is any more. He answers “no, last time you ordered a shit ton and it was tossed.”
She says “that’s not my fault” which is a dumb reply. He didn’t say it was your fault. He literally ex- plained why there is only one bunch of it when she asked. Fresh mint goes bad two seconds after it’s picked, so unless you know you’re going to be making fifty Mojitos, four bunches of mint is probably not going to be used.
But of course he’s just nit picking at her because he’s acting like a fucking baby. BUT, she also has been leading him on sort of, and dangling attention his way, only to shut him down.
She tells him to not get ‘shitty’ with her, “she hasn’t gotten time for it.” However, she had plenty of time, to stand around arguing with the psycho texter all day, every day. But can’t deal with Dave being a little short.
Tash: “You’ve been rude to me all morning.” He admits that he’s not going out of his way to be very helpful, that’s all.
Guests start whining about having to hang on the boat. Court and Storm go to a nearby area to see if it’s safe to take them. It’s not. Waves to wavey or whatever.
I’m trying to decide if I was a guest (in my dreams right?) if I would be this whiny. Probably not. Especially, if I came as a guest with someone. That would be sort of bratty. I would just sit and demand bloody Mary’s with shrimp and bacon in them all day. Just kidding. There was a dude on Sailing Yacht that did that.
They’re trying to take them on a tour of some sort to distract them. The guests keep fucking asking over and over if they’re going to be going to be leaving the dock.
This woman is trying to nail poor Courtney down exactly what they’re going to be doing the following day. She doesn’t fucking know. She’s a deckhand. It depends on the weather, and of course what the 7Captain of the fucking boat decides, not a deckhand. Thought they were such yachties. They know this.
She asks AGAIN. Not sure who she was talking to, maybe one of the other deckies. I guess she thinks if she asks someone different, she’ll get a different answer. I think it’s the mom that keeps asking.
Dave is working on dinner, and still has a big ole attitude, and is acting super moody over the brush-off. For the second time.
Also this shit totally goes to her head, making her thinks she’s something else since she’s getting all in Dave’s head like this. Do we even think she’s that pretty? I don’t. It seems like she loves the attention, doesn’t matter if it’s good or negative attention, or who it’s from.
The deck crew is in the kitchen trying to help, and they don’t what ramekins are that Dave is requesting. Where are the three stews??
It’s the 25th anniversary party for the primaries. They really are a cute couple.
Why are the stews dressed so weird? Kyle is wearing some bedazzled Aladdin vest. Tash looks like the Great Pumpkin. If orange was the theme for whatever reason, I missed that.
The primary has on an orange bow tie. I guess they’re supposed to look Spanish-y.
Dave is biting everyone’s head off that tries to speak to him. Courtney asked if the broccoli is ready to go, and he answers he doesn’t know what’s going on? Well if he doesn’t know what’s ready to go up who the hell does. All of the actual stews have disappeared for some fucking reason.
Now Dave is bitching there are “too many people hanging around asking questions.”
Jesus someone give this dude a tampon or a Midol already. Tash’s attention and affections are really worth all of this? Because you know, these boatmances do have a really high success rate.
Nat is cleaning cabins, and has Mzi with her doing some sort of comedy routine. So why if you’re a guest, and you know these girls are going to be going through your rooms, to ‘clean’ and snoop, would you leave dirty underwear in the open? Or shit laying everywhere? Euuwwww.
So the first course is over and ‘cleared. ’ Dave says he needs another 15 or 20 minutes for the main course. 15 or 20 minutes?
Tash in her yap, “Dave is being unprofessional…” Okay so she’s the professionalism police on the yacht? Don’t even get me started on all of her unprofessionalism.
The bratty daughters are trying to get the parents to bitch about dinner taking too long. Like what’s the rush? Are they going somewhere? They had bread and shit to munch on. There literally are like twelve people in the galley just standing around. Dave get your head out of your ass.
Wow the drama caused by Tash, and her messy love life, that’s been affecting her work getting done, and now the guests are bitching. All she had to do was humor Dave a little, text him back, and keep things friendly while letting him know they’re not hooking up again. We knowwwwwww she can text.
Instead she shut him down and said “don’t text me!” Is she new here? Did she forget the way he unraveled when she started ignoring him before?
She’s the one that started a relationship with the chef, only to tell him to get lost when she got bored.
To me, that is unprofessional as a chief stew, to start banging the chef.
The dinner is finally getting served, so they can quit bitching. Or so we thought. The rice is ‘crispy.’ No one seems to like it. Was there even dessert?? They head right to bed.
And then, MAN DOWN. Kyle trips down the stairs with a bunch of dishes and shit in his hands.
And he does not seem like a ‘gets up and brusheshimself off kind of guy.’
He’s lying in the galley area moaning.
Spoiler alert – he does end up leaving due to this fall.
