Dek
Jul 17, 2005, 02:31 PM
Yes, the title is a reference towards the Super Mario T-Shirt that has the different mushrooms on it.
Anyways, this rant is about how one simple request from a customer can go horribly wrong.
My family and I go up to Minnesota for a week every year and stay at a cabin at a local fishing resort. We have been going to the same one for the past 15 years and never had any problems...Until last year....
A. We found a mushroom growing next to the shower
B. We found a bat in my room.
We mentioned these things to the owners of the resort and they said that they will take care of the situations (this is the part where you guys start saying "Now this is getting interesting").
The positive thing is that they took care of the bat situation by placing masking tape on the edges of the ceiling (where the wall and ceiling meet that is) as that contained a few...open areas that could have potentially let a few creatures in. The bad thing, however, is that our mushroom "upkeep" quadrupled* (in other words, it went from one to four). As I went to turn on the light in the bathroom one night, I see four, fully-opened mushrooms and, like Sir Galahad in Spamalot, shouted "JESUS CHRIST!!!"
My parents, silently, said "We know. We know. We will keep them in there so that they can see that something needs to be done..."
Now I hope that something is done to that bloody bathroom. Oh well. We'll find out next year >_>
Anyways, this rant is about how one simple request from a customer can go horribly wrong.
My family and I go up to Minnesota for a week every year and stay at a cabin at a local fishing resort. We have been going to the same one for the past 15 years and never had any problems...Until last year....
A. We found a mushroom growing next to the shower
B. We found a bat in my room.
We mentioned these things to the owners of the resort and they said that they will take care of the situations (this is the part where you guys start saying "Now this is getting interesting").
The positive thing is that they took care of the bat situation by placing masking tape on the edges of the ceiling (where the wall and ceiling meet that is) as that contained a few...open areas that could have potentially let a few creatures in. The bad thing, however, is that our mushroom "upkeep" quadrupled* (in other words, it went from one to four). As I went to turn on the light in the bathroom one night, I see four, fully-opened mushrooms and, like Sir Galahad in Spamalot, shouted "JESUS CHRIST!!!"
My parents, silently, said "We know. We know. We will keep them in there so that they can see that something needs to be done..."
Now I hope that something is done to that bloody bathroom. Oh well. We'll find out next year >_>