For those who stay in hotels regularly, this conversation
should sound familiar.
Room Service (RS): Morny. Rune-sore-bees.
Hotel Guest
(HG): Oh, sorry. I thought I dialed Room Service.
RS: Rye,
rune-sore-bees. Morny. Djewish to odor sunteen?
HG: Uh...
yes. I'd like some bacon and eggs.
RS: Ow July then?
HG:
What?
RS: Aches. Ow July then? Pry, boy, pooch...?
HG:
Oh, the eggs! How do I like them? Sorry. Scrambled
please.
RS: Ow July thee baycome? Crease?
HG: Crisp will
be fine.
RS: Okay. An Santos?
HG: What?
RS: Santos.
July Santos?
HG: Ugh. I don't know... I don't think
so.
RS: No. Judo one toes?
HG: Look, I feel really bad
about this but I don't know what "judo one
toes" means. I'm
sorry.
RS: Toes! Toes! Why djew Don Juan toes? Ow bow
cenglish mopping we bother?
HG: English muffin! I've got
it! You were saying toast! Fine. An English
muffin will be
fine.
RS: We bother?
HG: No. Just put the bother on the
side.
RS: Wad?
HG: I'm sorry. I meant butter. Butter on
the side.
RS: Copy?
HG: I feel terrible about this
but...
RS: Copy. Copy, tea, mill...
HG: Coffee! Yes,
coffee please. And that's all.
RS: One Minnie. Ass
rune torino fee, strangle aches, crease baycome,
tossy
cenglish mopping we bother honey sigh, an copy. Rye?
HG:
Whatever you say.
RS: Okay. Tendjewberrymud.
HG: You're
welcome.
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What to Do With Hotel Soap?
The following letters are taken from an actual incident
between a
London hotel and one of it's guests. The Hotel ended up submitting
the letters to the London Sunday Times!
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Dear Maid,
Please do not leave any more of those little bars of soap
in my
bathroom since I have brought my own bath-sized Dial. Please
remove the six unopened little bars from the shelf under the
medicine chest and another three in the shower soap dish.
They are in my way.
Thank you,
S. Berman
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Dear
Room 635,
I am not your regular maid. She
will be back tomorrow, Thursday,
from her day off. I took the 3 hotel soaps out of the shower
soap dish as you requested. The 6 bars on your shelf I took
out of your way and put on top of your Kleenex dispenser
in case you should change your mind.
This leaves only the 3 bars
I left today which my instructions from the
management is
to leave 3 soaps daily. I hope this is satisfactory.
Kathy, Relief Maid
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Dear
Maid - I hope you are my regular maid.
Apparently Kathy did not tell
you about my note to her concerning the little bars of soap.
When I got back to my room this evening I found you had
added 3 little Camays to the shelf under my medicine cabinet.
I am going to be here in the hotel for two weeks and have
brought my own bath-size Dial so I won't need those 6 little
Camays which are on the shelf. They are in my way when
shaving, brushing teeth, etc. Please
remove
them.
S. Berman
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Dear
Mr. Berman,
My day off was last Wed. so the
relief maid left 3 hotel soaps which
we are instructed by the management. I took the 6 soaps which
were in your way on the shelf and put them in the soap dish
where your Dial was. I put the Dial in the medicine
cabinet for your convenience. I didn't remove the 3
complimentary soaps which are always placed inside the medicine
cabinet for all new check-ins and which you did not object
to when you checked in last Monday. Please let me know
if I can of further assistance.
Your regular maid,
Dotty
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Dear
Mr. Berman,
The assistant manager, Mr.
Kensedder, informed me this morning that you called him last
evening and said you were unhappy with your maid service. I
have assigned a new girl to your room. I hope you
will
accept my apologies for any past inconvenience. If you have
any future complaints please contact me so I can give it my
personal attention. Call extension 1108 between 8AM and 5PM.
Thank you.
Elaine Carmen
Housekeeper
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Dear
Miss Carmen,
It is impossible to contact you
by phone since I leave the hotel for
business at 7:45 AM
and don't get back before 5:30 or 6PM. That's the
reason I
called Mr. Kensedder last night. You were already off duty.
I
only asked Mr. Kensedder if he could do anything about
those little bars of soap. The new maid you assigned me must
have thought I was a new check-in today, since she left
another 3 bars of hotel soap in my
medicine cabinet along
with her regular delivery of 3 bars on the
bathroom shelf. In just 5 days here I have accumulated
24 little bars of soap. Why are you doing this to me?
S. Berman
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Dear
Mr. Berman,
Your maid, Kathy, has been
instructed to stop delivering soap to your room and remove the
extra soaps. If I can be of further assistance, case call
extension 1108 between 8AM and 5PM. Thank you,
Elaine Carmen,
Housekeeper
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Dear
Mr. Kensedder,
My bath-size Dial is missing.
Every bar of soap was taken from my
room including my own
bath-size Dial. I came in late last night and had to call the
bellhop to bring me 4 little Cashmere Bouquets.
S. Berman
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Dear
Mr. Berman,
I have informed our housekeeper,
Elaine Carmen, of your soap
problem. I cannot
understand why there was no soap in your room
since our
maids are instructed to leave 3 bars of soap each time
they
service a room. The situation will be rectified
immediately. Please accept my apologies for the
inconvenience.
Martin L. Kensedder
Assistant Manager
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Dear
Mrs. Carmen,
Who the hell left 54 little bars
of Camay in my room? I came in last
night and found 54
little bars of soap. I don't want 54 little bars
of
Camay.
I want my one damn bar of bath-size Dial. Do
you realize I have 54 bars of soap in here. All I want
is my bath size Dial. Please give me back my bath-size
Dial.
S. Berman
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Dear
Mr. Berman,
You complained of too much soap
in your room so I had them moved.
Then you complained to
Mr. Kensedder that all your soap was missing so I
personally returned them. The 24 Camays which had been taken
and the 3 Camays you are supposed to receive daily. I don't
know anything about the 4 Cashmere Bouquets. Obviously
your maid, Kathy, did not know I had returned your soaps
so she also brought 24 Camays plus the 3 daily Camays. I
don't know where you got the idea this hotel issues bath-size
Dial. I was able to locate some bath-size Ivory which I left
in your room.
Elaine Carmen
Housekeeper
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Dear
Mrs. Carmen,
Just a short note to bring you
up-to-date on my latest soap inventory.
As of today I
possess:
- On the shelf under medicine
cabinet - 18 Camay in 4 stacks of 4 and 1 stack of 2.
- On the Kleenex dispenser - 11
Camay in 2 stacks of 4 and 1 stack
of 3.
- On the bedroom dresser - 1
stack of 3 Cashmere Bouquet,
- 1 stack of 4 hotel-size Ivory,
and 8 Camay in 2 stacks of 4.
- Inside the medicine cabinet
- 14 Camay in 3 stacks of 4 and 1 stack of 2.
- In the shower soap dish - 6
Camay, very moist.
- On the northeast corner of tub
- 1 Cashmere Bouquet, slightly used.
- On the northwest corner of tub
- 6 Camays in 2 stacks of 3.
Please ask Kathy when she
services my room to make sure the
stacks are neatly piled
and dusted. Also, please advise her that stacks
of more than 4 have a tendency to tip. May I suggest
that my bedroom window sill is not in use and
will make an excellent spot for future soap deliveries. One
more item, I have purchased another bar of bath-sized Dial
which I am keeping in the hotel vault in order to avoid
further misunderstandings.