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TeleTypewriter - Regina Litman wrote: Craig Cochran wrote: For those interested, here's a description of what happened to me recently at the Clarion Hotel in Savannah, GA: http://www.complaints.com/june2003/complaintoftheday.june15.6.htm. Talk about poor communications and inability to serve the customer properly. Has anyone else had a similar experience to this? Thanks for posting the link. I'm sorry to see that so many people have jumped on you for this. Although playing a guitar in a public area at 9:30 p.m. may be questionable, it was, after all, an acoustic guitar, and you said you were strumming it softly. Not being familiar with the layout of the hotel, I will give you the benefit of the doubt that you were not in the area of customer rooms. Think of all of the hotels that have lobby bars with entertainment! I'll bet you weren't as loud as that. I definitely think the hotel employee overreacted, probably because of cultural differences. I had an interesting experience along these lines recently that I don't consider to have been negative, but it made me re-think something I had carried with me for many years. When I was a teenager, I frequently visited an older cousin's apartment. She was a newlywed and was in the process of furnishing her place with nice things. When I sat on her living room sofa, I would put my feet on the coffee table that was in front of it. My cousin told me that if I'm going to put my feet up on her coffee table to please take my shoes off first so that I would get any dirt I was tracking on the table. For about the next 35 years, whenever I was in a situation where I was tempted to put my feet up on a coffee-table-like piece of furniture across from where I was sitting, I would take my shoes off first. Then, last year, when I stayed at a resort hotel somewhere in the U.S. I spent some time sitting in this establishment's nicely-furnished lobby. One night, I slipped my shoes off and put my feet up on a table that faced the sofa or chair on which I was sitting. A hotel employee (American, not a foreigner) approached me and told me it was okay to put my feet up on the table as long as I kept my shoes ON! Apparently, it was more of a crime to be barefoot (or in stockinged feet) than to make the table dirty with whatever happened to be on the heels of my shoes. I gladly complied with her request. And now I don't know what I should do - keep the shoes on or take them off - when faced with this situation!just take one off and confuse the employees.
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