Picking up with Kyle going down the stairs, head first. I honestly don’t get how this doesn’t happen more often. They’re constantly up and down those stairs, running, all day and night long carrying shit.
But Kyle is the unfortunate one that takes the tumble. Honestly if any of the staff in the whole crew, including the deck crew, if one person were to be the one to take a tumble, Kyle would be the chosen one, since he’s like the least productive and the laziest.
The girls rush to his side. He is moaning like a bitch. I would be moaning like a bitch, but he’s a guy, so stop moaning like a bitch. I actually did do something similar a few years ago, when I fell down some stairs at the train station, with a very heavy suitcase. I got the hell up, and limped to my car. Kyle is lying here moaning.
Anywho, in all fairness, his fall was possibly worse, or not. We don’t know. It’s Kyle and he’s dramatic, and doesn’t really want to work.
Storm: What did you feel when you fell?? What the hell kind of question is that?
Kyle: “Paaaaaiiiiiin” Thanks for that clarification.
Nat keeps saying that “Kyle fell over.” No he fell down the stairs, not the same as “falling over.”
Sandy has been awakened from her slumber, to join the party.
Random question: how come the crew on here are allowed to wear shoes?
He gets taken to the hospital to get an X-ray. He hugs Tash, by the van, as if he’s going off to war. Could this dude be any more dramatic? It’s great they’re so friendly and all, but it’s getting to be too much. Too much to watch, and too much for a manager/employee relationship.
Guess it’s good Tash and Nat have made up, since Tash finally acted like an actual leader for five minutes last week. If they were still hating on each other now, this would have been a lot worse.
Kyle has returned and it is only a sprain. He has the crutches going, and everything. He says in his yap that he can’t be on it for a whole week. Not sure if he had shared that with Sandy and Tash. At least they didn’t show it, if he had. That would be important info. Especially since there are only two more charters. So he’s basically down to doing only sit down jobs for rest of season.
I can foresee him crying the pain killers are making him sleepy or some shit. Let’s face it, this dude has done the bare minimum since the start of the season. And Tash allowed it, because they are besties.
Dave asks Trash for dish washing tablets, which I guess she neglected to order. However, there ARE about 800 cases of wine. Throw some wine in there, the alcohol should kill the germs.
Nat complains to Courtney and Mzi that she has to be the communicator between Dave and Tash’s pissy banter between each other where they’re talking, but not really talking.
Dave hammers her on what’s been ordered, and points out things he needs stuff that she didn’t order. Is he kind of being a dick to be a dick? Yes. (Doing the Salt Lake Housewives thing) Should Tash be better at ordering shit to make sure they have what they need, and not an over abundance of shit they don’t? Yes. I would say dish washing detergent is kind of important. Not sure what you can substitute for that. I think nothing. I guess you could spray some random cleaner in there and hope for the best.
I think we’ve all at one point in our lives, thought we could use regular dish washing liquid in a dishwasher, which causes suds to pour out of the bottom. Wonder why that is? What the magic ingredient is in it, or not in it. It might be some sort of scam.
Sandy overhears them bickering about fruit and dishwasher tablets, and calls an impromptu meeting in the galley. She tells them nicely, (a little too nicely if you ask me) to stop the fucking around like two middle schoolers working on a science project, and do their fucking jobs. She doesn’t say that but she should have. And remember this is the second time they’ve had to be reprimnaded. Like the tiptoeing, it’s time for some tough fucking love.
She honestly wouldn’t have been bitchy here, or out of line, to come down a little harder. I mean if this were Hannah bickering with the chef due to a defunct romance, she would be going OFF! Let’s remember Hannah got fired for having a fucking weed pen for chrissakes.
Now we have have a chef, and chief stew at each other’s throats, and affecting the guests’ experience (dinner was shit the previous night) because he’s lovesick, and she likes to play childish games with dudes. But for that, Sandy gives them this super watered down light scolding. If you even want to call it that.
The guests invite Captain Sandy to have breakfast with them, I’m sure, for no other reason, but to hammer her about leaving the dock.
Guests are complaining about their lattes. Really sucks to be them. Shitty food and drinks, thanks to Tash and Dave’s endless lovers’ quarrels, and now a man down on service, shitty weather… lucky for them, though, it’s Kyle and he doesn’t do that much anyway. Now Nat or Dave takin a spill? We’d have a problem. Tash, also not so much.
And the second, I mean the second, she walks onto the deck, the woman isn’t even sitting yet, “is there a way to do water sports TODAY??”
They can’t even pretend like they care about interacting with her. Like they can’t say, hello how are you, and make two minutes of idle chit chat? They are having bad luck and just need to get over it. They’re not being jerks, but they’re just still annoying. Maybe I’m jealous. I’m probably jealous.
So they’re going on the tender to do some ‘water sports’ in a secluded corner somewhere. It doesn’t even seem like it’s that windy anymore, but whatever.
Tash and Dave have a heart to heart in the galley, after Sandy’s little talk with them, and I can’t understand most of what they’re saying, with their accents, and they’re talking fast. Tash is covering her mouth with her hand, which I think is a body language queue for not being honest. Touching your head or eye is a sign of dishonest/ lying, but covering your mouth, seems like it would be worse. Super extra dishonest dishonesty. Like you don’t even believe you own bullshit, so you have to cover your mouth as you’re talking. Not a shocker – BS spews out of her face non stop.
So she’s manufacturing all of this drama over Dave sending her a sweet text message. She wasn’t even bothered that much about it.
Where are the subtitles when you need them? Caught the end where Dave says that he doesn’t recognize himself, and Tash is saying she “can’t deal with the messages.”
Which of course is so ironic because she manged to ‘deal’ with all of those abusive deranged messages from the BF/ex-BF, who knows what the hell he is at this point. And who cares. But holy fucking shitballs!! Dave asking her show she’s doing, puts her over the edge, and “she can’t deal with it.”
For some reason we do get a subtitle of Dave saying very clearly “copy” but not the low rambling and mumbling at the beginning of their convo. Gee thanks Bravo!! I assume we didn’t miss much anyway, just the typical whining about how Dave being so in love with her, is such an inconvenience. And him graveling and apologizing.
Guests are frolicking around in the water and seem to be happy for now. So it really seems that Kyle never did tell Tash he needs to not be walking around for a week, because she comes into the cabin and so lovingly and carefully asks him “so what are you meant to do?” He answers “I don’t know about today, my foot is sore today. She said don’t have, like viscous activity today.”
Tash: “which is work.”
So is it looking like he purposely isn’t conveying the doctor’s instructions, so he can lie around and still get paid by Bravo, and get in on the tip money, for doing absolutely fucking nothing.
What a fucking schmuck and shyster. Whatever. Not interested in this dude being around anymore anyway. How embarrassing for him. But not sure why isn’t asking exactly what the instructions were ?? Again bad bad bad fucking manager and leader.
He makes it seem like he’s open to doing sit down jobs. Honestly though, can’t he be out of bed at this point? And seeing what he can do? If it weren’t for their love affair thing going. and how Kyle worships her, she would be, and should be, instructing him to get up, and do something, instead of standing here talking to him like a mom speaks with a small child that skinned his knee.
And possibly inquiring exactly when the doctor said he can be up and around. That’s kind of important info especially since they’re down to almost the last charter.
Do we think she would be babying Nat like this? Then again, Nat wouldn’t still be lying in bed in the middle of the day. Her ass would be in the laundry room standing on one fucking foot ironing and switching laundry.
So to add to these guests’ never ending bad luck, a pipe gets caught in the anchor on the tender. Well you know, Courtney is ‘killing it’ and ‘she’s a weapon’ and she’s the best deckhand to ever grace any yacht anywhere ever, so surely she can figure this out.
The primary chick tells her to “breathe for a second.” She did drop the F bomb, but didn’t seem to be freaking out. I guess that was kind of unprofessional. She’s breathing, she’s also trying to think of what to do while the guests are all staring at her.
Luckily these guests know what to do, and give her the correct advice to free it. Jeez if these guests were jerks, they could possibly ask for a little refund for having to work while on board.
And the guest’s advice works, and it’s off. “She’s a weapon!!” It didn’t seem like Reid or Mzi had any advice to offer her.
Tash wants to do ‘welcome drinks’ AND ‘welcome cocktails’ Nat, voice of reason, over the Chief Stew, tells her since they’re a stew down let’s not do two types of drinks. Ya know I realize Tash likes to make cute cocktails. I do, and I respect that, lol. (follow me on TikTok for my ‘killer kocktails’) but sometimes doing what you LIKE to do at your job, is probably not the most constructive thing to do at your job.
I liked to plan parties and outings at my previous job because it’s fun, however it wasn’t my actual job. Making creative cocktails that the guests did not request, is not her actual job.
Now if the guests said “hey can you make those strawberry things again that you made yesterday, when we get back from swimming, then yes. But they didn’t. And she’s the chief stew why? How??
Kyle manages to get his ass out of bed to get himself some food. Guess he thought he was getting waited on, as he laid in bed, lying about his condition so he can stay and get paid.
Courtney tells Storm about the pipe mishap, but doesn’t give credit to the guests for telling her what to do, unless they cut that out.
Sandy asks Tash if someone else needs brought in to replace Kyle. She laughs that off, and says “we’ll be fine.” But I think she’s assuming he’ll be okay for the next charter. Who even knows if the doctor told him to stay off it for a week?
Tash has to go ask Kyle “if he fancies helping, they’re really struggling.” ‘If he fancies.’
“Of course, 100%” Well then why didn’t ya offer ya lazy fucker? Remember on a season past of Below Deck when Kate Chastain was still a chief stew, (before she did us all a fucking favor and ‘retired’) that Caroline chick that she bullied to death, where she blasted the music in her room to get her to leave, had hurt her foot, and Kate made her do sitting down jobs?
Which was fine, she just was an asshole about it, as usual, because she was so nasty to that chick, as she always to the third stew. I don’t think that chick was lazy like Kyle. Her issue was Kate was tormenting her beyond belief, and normal people cannot work under those conditions. No one ever told Kate Chastain that, I guess.
I have a reader that scolded me for mentioning Kate for some reason, ‘since she has nothing to do with this.’ I pointed out it’s normal to make comparisons between the chefs, captains, stews etc on these shows. So I think it’s legit to make this comparison, that a stew had a foot injury on a previous Below Deck season, and the chief stew wasn’t allowing her to lie around all day doing absolutley nothing.
I might actually have to agree with Kate on that one, that there are sitting down tasks that can be done. I just think that girl’s physical ailments were a direct result of Kate’s bullying.
I have been bullied on the job before, and became physically ill. It’s not unheard of, for emotional trauma to affect you physically. Can you imagine being trapped on a vessel with that passive aggressive narcissist bullying you around? I can’t.
Kyle finds the energy to hobble out of his room, even though he’s been lying in bed all day along, he manages to blow up some balloons. He could also fold laundry. And I’m sure a few other various things. What about stand on the good foot in the galley and chop shit for Dave?
That’s not out of the realm of possibility. While I know he fell down the stairs, and his foot may hurt, a stew that wasn’t a lazy ass, would not be lying in his bed, just saying. They would be out there saying what can I do? They would feel guilty. Especially one that’s still trying to stay for the next few charters.
Does it occur to him that if he were up and around, taking initiative, or asking what he could do, maybe they would have kept him on? Does it occur to Trash to try to act like his fucking boss, and tell him that?? Rhetorical question of course. I mean MAYBE it occurred to her, but she’s not going to do it.
The balloon duty for a whole five or ten minutes has worn him out and he’s back in the bunk.
I love the deck crew enthusiastically helping in the galley and cabins with no whining and crying whatsoever, and not folding their arms, with their lip out, saying “that’s not my job!!” (talking to YOU, Gary King – BDSY)
All hands on deck. Must be where the phrase originated from. When everyone did everything on ships. Maybe not mega super yachts, but some sort of large floating vessel.
So apparently the bougie wife and the bougie daughter complain they no like fish. Did their preference sheet state no fish?? If not, there’s a really a good chance you’re getting served fish and sea food, in the ocean, in the Mediterranean, where people eat light and healthy.
You’re not in Kansas anymore people, you’re not going to be served a pork chop with a side of mac & cheese. I’m rolling my eyes so hard right now, I’m going to get a headache.
Whatever. People are stupid. Shut up and eat it. It looks fucking divine to me. The chick whose birthday it is, is sitting there pouting. Dave, you can make that for me ANY DAY, if you’re ever in America! Which I doubt would happen, but maybe. I wouldn’t sit there and crinkle my nose at a fucking sea bass dish.
Remember the people a few years ago that bitched about chicken? They said “chicken is for poor people.” I forget which that chef was. Maybe the Canadian dude, or the groovy Bahama dude. Both of 6those, chefs Kate abused. Especially the Bahamas guy. He even called her passive aggressive which no one has ever done. She was the QUEEN of passive aggressive rhetoric. It’s how she treated the third stews too.
Kate even called them assholes. You know when Kate Chastain calls you an asshole, it pretty fucking bad. Now Dave is feeling all paranoid.
Well guess what? The Mom likes it ! Imagine that!
So I will actually say, even though they’re in the Med, and I do like fish and seafood, it’s weird the second course was a similar style fish dish. I would have done a pasta or filet, not chicken though. Definitely not chicken.
These are really cool people, I shouldn’t be bitching about them. The young chick even thanked Dave for the seafood dish, because she didn’t think she liked it, now she does. They have their brief moments of annoyance, but then they prove to be kind gracious people.
Especially when you throw in that they haven’t left the dock, and dinner the first night sucked when Dave was pouting about Tash. The mom that doesn’t like fish thinks the tuna is the best thing she’s had the entire trip. Funny. Now it’s party time- Reid gives the birtday girl a special treat!
This cake is ridiculous. Again sparklers, which I guess are okay, as long as they’re not lit until they get outside. But still, the way Sandy went off on Hannah that time, I assumed they were all together forbidden. She did set off the smoke alarm, so I know that pissed Sandy off. But was it that big of a deal, if everyone knew it was from the sparklers, and it was just a matter of shutting them off?
Ya know, shit happens. If eel like if that would have been any other chief stew other than Hannah Sandy would have laughed and said next t ime light them when you are up on the deck. Maybe I’m wrong.
So we’re now in Frat party mode with our newly appointed legal 21 year old. And guess what they want to do? The Congo line! Oh my freaking God – Kathy Hilton would be so freaking excited. Where were these people when the Beverly Hills Housewives were in Aspen!
Okay so Tash realizes they do need another body to replace Kyle. I know how badly he wanted to finish the season out with a thud, and lie in bed all fucking day. But sadly that’s not to be.
Tash gets all overly melodramatic doing her really slow serious talk, in her yaps about needing to replace Kyle. “I don’t want to replace him.” Well boo fucking hoo chicky. He’s fucking lying in bed anyway. It’s not like you all get to hang all over each other all day now, telling each other how great you are. You both suck.
Nat is literally getting up three fucking hours after going to bed after working almost 24 hours straight. Can you just see Kyle doing this shit if Nat would’ve fallen?? What also sucks about Kyle lying to Tash, and not telling her he was going to be down the rest of the season, is that they could have started looking for someone earlier.
So Tash gets up in the next morning after having like two hours of sleep, and Kyle makes zero movement to get out of bed, and see what tasks he could possibly handle. In all honesty, when you have an injury like that, pretty sure the doctors tell you to get up and move around, and not lie in bed all fucking day. Doesn’t he even think since Tash asked him to get up and help the previous day, that perhaps she had that expectation the NEXT day as well? Why is she letting him get away with this ? Stupid question. He knows she won’t say anything, and she doesn’t.
Tash actually has to be a little bit annoyed with him. But because of their super special BFF thing, she won’t ask him to get the fuck up and see what he can contribute without putting weight on his foot.
So finally the weather is fine, and they’re taking off! However this is the last day, and they leave in like two hours.
Kyle remains in bed. Dave waits on him. Tash talks to Sandy about giving Kyle the boot. She acts all emotional about it. SO freaking stupid. I’m not sure if there’s only one more charter or two. If there’s just one more, not sure why she can’t suck it up and put Kyle on light duty. Well light(er) duty.
Storm says something about making a fool out of himself again trying to get with Nat. Not sure what that was all about it. Guess he had a performance issue.
Tash so carefully and sweetly goes into their cabin to deliver the bad news.
Again she indicates she doesn’t know “what he’s meant to do.” Because he didn’t share the doctor’s orders with his manager. Again he doesn’t answer. Watching this back, I wonder if Tash and Sandy were pissed.
Kyle: “I don’t wanna be replaced.” Translation: I wanted to lie around all day and collect free cash.
He goes on, I’m sorry to say, “This is my heart and soul and passion and being with you is my entire life.”
For fuck’s sake Kyle. Tash says she feels like she lost the other half of her and doesn’t know how she’s can pull through without him. Again, there’s one more fucking charter. Weren’t they going their separate ways when it was finished?
These two are two a kind when it comes to relationships. Like all in and overly attached. Too bad Kyle is gay.
This constant mutual admiration society is just too much. He says that he’s really proud of her as a chief stew. Newsflash Kyle, you are the only person on the planet that thinks she’s a good chief stew.
The guests hurriedly pack after their two seconds of jet skiing and going down the slide.
Kyle manages to hobble out of bed to collect his tip.
I read on a FaceBook chat, someone said that the “tip envelope” is pretend, and the guests actually are required to electronically send their tip money before the trip. So if that’s the case, then it doesn’t matter what kind of service they receive, it seems. I always think that’s weird to have these people carrying this wad of cash when traveling. That’s so risky.
Sandy lets them know Kyle is not fired but leaving them, and a replacement is coming on board. Kyle also seems to have the energy to hit the town later, he’s asking if they’re going out tonight or if they’re too tired.
Tash goes on some diatribe in her yap about all of her trials and tribulations of the season. Trials and tribulations that she caused, by her poor decisions, that should not have been made by a true leader.
Leading Dave on, then just ignoring him, when he was being annoying, instead of speaking to him like an adult, thinking it was a good idea to reconcile while on charter with that psycho stooge she was seeing before she started banging Dave.
Allowing his constant berating text messages all fucking day, every fucking day, (she could have blocked him or left her phone in her cabin) that she responded to constantly, so the lunatic wouldn’t get ‘mad’ and feel ‘ignored.’ (that sounds familiar) Letting her responsibilities slip because of this, (you can’t work when you’re texting all fucking day) letting her friendship with Kyle get in the way of her job, thus causing the snowball effect of Nat’s frustrations because of having to pick up both slacks.
Allowing Kyle to do less work because she wouldn’t reprimand him, and light a fucking fire under him. So Nat was picking up slack of Tash, neglecting her job due to the emotional stress the psycho texter was causing, and the time involved of always having her fucking phone in her hand.
When Tash talks in her yaps, she talks like so slowly and like, diplomatically as if what she’s saying is the most important fucking thing ever. And you almost believe her, until you actually listen to what she says.
Does anyone feel sorry for her? She literally says she doesn’t know how she’s going to “cope the next trip without Kyle due to his emotional support.” Holy bloody hell. She’s SUCH a fucking moron.
And here’s another thought I had. Since Sandy pointed out that Kyle is NOT fired, he’s going to be staying on the dock somewhere (prob putting him up in a bougie hotel) does that mean he’s entitled to the tip money on the next ONE fucking charter that Tash absolutely could NOT handle being down a stew?
Give me a fucking break. So he’s managing to be vertical and standing on one foot while packing to leave, I notice. So he COULD have helped in the galley or in laundry. Think after the first night those crutches were a big show. He could have walked while not putting weight on it. That’s what I did for an entire week after I had my tumble down the stairs. And not sure why he’s trying navigate going down the stairs with his crutches. Wouldn’t it be easier and smarter to lean on the handle and not put weight on it? Not he sharpest tool in the shed.
Kyle and Tash cuddle. Kyle cries again in his yap and calls her his “best friend.” And they literally met, at this point, like what three weeks ago? And that Frank dude, he met on board, that he was so in love with four seconds after they met? Some sort of issues going on here. He and Tash do deserve each other. They both need major therapy, but they deserve one another. I just watched part of Forrest Gump, and remember how Forrest keeps referring to Bubba as his “very best good friend”? That’s what Kyle reminds me of every time he refers to Tash as his best friend. That maybe kind of rude, since Forrest Gump was kind of a slow dude, but I do not care. This is ridiculous. I wonder if they’re even keeping in touch at this point prob not. Dorks.
So in the preview for next week, looks like they finally get their batch of asshole guests. They wreck the jet ski, he has a problem with Dave’s pancakes. I think pancakes in Europe are not the same as American pancakes. And the quick glance I got when they showed them, they look more like crepes, and the dude is goin off.
What an asshole. Pancakes? Are you like 10 dude? Why doesn’t Dave whip him some chicken nuggets and Kraft mac & cheese too while he’s at it?
And as if Tash’s shitty decisions, bad leadership, and messy fucking love life, or lack of love, life haven’t been enough of a problem for everyone, it’s going to be the focus again, as Tash’s boyfriend or ex boyfriend, still remains unclear, starts fucking texting Dave.
I thought it was strange this weirdo suddenly just disappeared after their argument with Dave interrupted her on the phone with him. He’s probably been stewing in his fucking craziness for the past week.
What the literal fuck. I want a name and face to put with this crazy ass weirdo.
