Sorry, No Customer Service After 4:00 P.M.

Written by David Leonhardt


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"But we were not allowed to check in until 4:00 p.m.," I protested.

At this point, Deadpan Clerk pulled from underrepparttar desk a box big enough to hold almost half a pillow, and started rummaging helpfully through it to see if he could find a pillow. He could not, he announced.

Inrepparttar 134089 hospitality business, folks should know how to treat people hospitably, or so I thought. If that wererepparttar 134090 case, I suppose I would never have written about Hotel Stella andrepparttar 134091 Wicked Witch of Lido ( http://www.thehappyguy.com/Hotel-Stella.html ) or aboutrepparttar 134092 paper-thin walls in many hotels these days ( http://www.thehappyguy.com/hotel-jokes.html ). OK, sorepparttar 134093 latter was largely fiction, a desperate search for a column topic, butrepparttar 134094 Hotel Stella torture story was 100% true.

Back atrepparttar 134095 fairly expensive Resort-on-the-Edge-of-Nowhere, Deadpan Clerk proceeded to assure us that we were notrepparttar 134096 only ones he mistreated. Phew, what a relief! In fact, just a few minutes earlier a man had come looking for an iron for his wife (probably for his wife's dress, as men rarely iron their wives, but Deadpan Clerk never clarified that).

He proudly related how he had explained torepparttar 134097 man that irons were not available after 4:00 p.m., unless he had one in his magic little box.

"But we were not allowed to check in until 4:00 p.m.,"repparttar 134098 man protested.

He sentrepparttar 134099 man back to inform his wife that she will have to attendrepparttar 134100 dinner theatre in a dress looking like a prune (the dress, notrepparttar 134101 wife...at least, not that we were aware of).

NOTE: Although no missing persons report has been filed, we did not seerepparttar 134102 man again.

Deadpan Clerk was proudly informed us that he had sentrepparttar 134103 man away without an iron. Apparently we did not rank high enough to deserve even their very worst customer service.

I should end this story on a happy note. But how? I escaped alive, along withrepparttar 134104 strange woman I pass every day inrepparttar 134105 hallway. It turns out she is my wife, go figure. And a most compassionate wife, too...she even helped Deadpan Clerk escape alive, too, at least until I return torepparttar 134106 fairly expensive Resort-on-the-Edge-of-Nowhere.

David Leonhardt is a humor columnist: http://www.TheHappyGuy.com/positive-thinking-free-ezine.html Read more satirical articles and funny stories: http://www.TheHappyGuy.com/humor articles.html Read more personal growth articles: http://www.TheHappyGuy.com/self-actualization-articles.html Read more travel articles: http://www.TheHappyGuy.com/travel-articles.html


e-Marginalia: Travel Beyond the Margin

Written by George Davis


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And why not? The appetite for intriguing, well-written (and well photographed) travel stories is virtually insatiable. e-Margaux site visitors want adventure. They want authentic. They want relevant. They want eccentric and quirky and funny. Most of all, e-Margaux.com attracts visitors who yearn for REAL experiences from REAL people.

You up torepparttar challenge? The storytellers featured at http://www.e-marginalia.com are! e-Marginalia showcases stories from a diverse group of travelers. Adventurers, sybarites, sophisticates and romantics. Wanderers all — wayward or cerebral, focused or quixotic — these travelers have returned with stories to enrapture and transport us. At least until we sally forth on our own adventures.

Zealous traveler, intrepid flâneur, undisciplined storyteller, peripatetic teacher, sometime athlete, hack fly-fisherman and pipe-dreamer, George Davis is the Editor of e-Marginalia, http://www.e-marginalia.com , an eccentric travel 'zine published by e-Margaux.com.


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