You would think Mash would be busy enough running his hotel to not get bored and start messing around with employees and/or guests for his own amusement. But you would be wrong.
One day, after hearing the umpteeth complaint from an employee that, yes, we give them all this stuff that says don't do this or that, nobody ever reads it, Mash got curious. He printed up a batch of registration cards that looked just like the usual ones, except that among the usual legalese about what Mash's World Famous Inn reserves the right to do and etc., he inserted:
"Mash's World Famous Inn reserves the right to conduct full strip and cavity searches for any reason, at any time, including 3:00 in the morning because the night auditor is drunk and thinks it would be fun."
Carl (front desk guy) puts the over under at 7.5 guests that sign the card without reading it before someone does and points it out. Mash bet the over. The ninth guest noticed.
"Wait. What?" guest says.
"I'm sorry. Is there a problem?" says Carl.
"What in the hell is this!" guest (a 50-something guy) stabs at the offending text with his finger.
"That?" (Carl makes a show of reading it.) "Dear me. That's not supposed to be in there. Mash!"
Mash emerges from his office. "The hell?"
"You're violating my rights!" says guest with genuine indignation. Carl points out the offending text to Mash. Mash reads it.
"Not yet, I'm not. But don't worry. You're neither in your 20s nor female, so you don't really fit the profile of people we suspect to be terrorists and must, for the public safety, investigate."
Guest eventually realized it was a joke and actually took it in good humor, but it took him another couple of minutes.
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