A blog reader/friend (thanks!) sent me this amusing list today. Some of the items seem too good to be true but, regardless, they gave me a good chuckle, and that is what is important. So…enjoy!!!
This was sent around from Thomas Cook Holidays – listing some of the guests’ complaints:
· “I think it should be explained in the brochure that the local store does not sell proper biscuits like custard creams or ginger nuts.”
· “It’s lazy of the local shopkeepers to close in the afternoons. I often needed to buy things during ‘siesta’ time – this should be banned.”
· “On my holiday to Goa in India , I was disgusted to find that almost every restaurant served curry. I don’t like spicy food at all.”
· “We booked an excursion to a water park but no-one told us we had to bring our swimming costumes and towels.”
· “The beach was too sandy.”
· “We found the sand was not like the sand in the brochure. Your brochure shows the sand as yellow but it was white.”
· A guest at a Novotel in Australia complained his soup was too thick and strong. He was inadvertently slurping the gravy at the time.
· “Topless sunbathing on the beach should be banned. The holiday was ruined as my husband spent all day looking at other women.”
· “We bought ‘Ray-Ban’ sunglasses for 5 Euros (£3.50) from a street trader, only to find out they were fake.”
· “No-one told us there would be fish in the sea. The children were startled.”
· “It took us nine hours to fly home from Jamaica to England; it only took the Americans three hours to get home.”
· “I compared the size of our one-bedroom apartment to our friends’ three-bedroom apartment and ours was significantly smaller.”
· “The brochure stated: ‘No hairdressers at the accommodation’. We’re trainee hairdressers – will it be OK staying here?”
· “There are too many Spanish people. The receptionist speaks Spanish. The food is Spanish. Too many foreigners.”
· “We had to queue outside with no air conditioning.”
· “It is your duty as a tour operator to advise us of noisy or unruly guests before we travel.”
· “I was bitten by a mosquito – no-one said they could bite.”
· “My fiancé and I booked a twin-bedded room but we were placed in a double-bedded room. We now hold you responsible for the fact that I find myself pregnant. This would not have happened if you had put us in the room that we booked.”
Hello Margaret,
I just found your blog and am thrilled. I am 56 and was diagnosed with MGUS last week. Since then I have been trying to find out as much as I can. When your blog showed up in my search results I stopped looking further. The attached pages on the right are very helpful. Thank you for sharing everything.
Karen
Oh dear Margaret, some of these are so funny but they do make me wonder why these folk ever bother to go away. Still thank you – did bring a smile to my face x
Margaret,
On http://www.myelomaforums.com i found this Powerpoint presentaion: http://www.myelomaforums.com/forums/viewtopic.php?f=9&t=173
and, like Karen said: very good blog!
regards,
Hans
(today 58 and still relatively healthy)
Ha ha ha! Great stuff, M!
Oh! I also wanted to mention that if readers want to send a post to someone by email, they can click on the envelope icon under “Share and Enjoy” at the end of the post.