A married couple is traveling by car from California to New York.
Being seniors, after almost 11 hours on the road on this journey, they were too tired to continue so they decided to take a room in a magnificent hotel.
But, they only planned to sleep for 4 hours and then get back on the road.
Four hours later, the desk clerk handed them a bill of $350.The man explodes and insisted to know about the expensive bill “I agree t it’s a nice hotel, but the rooms aren’t worth $350.00 for just staying only for four hours.
The desk clerk told him that $350.00 is the ‘standard rate’.
The man insisted on talking with the manager.
The manager was informed by the desk clerk. The manager then appeared and listened to him, and declared:
“This hotel has an Olympic-sized pool and a specialized huge conference center designed to host mega-conferences which are available for use.”
But we didn’t use them, the husband said.
Well, they are here, and you could have, explained the manager. He went on to explain that the couple could also have taken in one of the shows for which the hotel is famous.
The manager boasted “We have the best performers (comedians, singers & dancers) from New York, Hollywood, and Las Vegas perform here performing in this hotel 24 hours a day, 7 days a week.”
But we didn’t go to any of those shows, the husband said.
“Well, we have them, and you could have.” was the response,.
No matter what facilities and services the manager mentioned, the husband responded, “But we didn’t utilize it!”
The manager always answered with his standard response
The manager is unmoved, and eventually, after several minutes of debate, The husband gave up and agreed to pay. As he didn’t have the checkbook, he asked his wife to write the check.
The wife wrote a check and gave it to the manager. The manager looked at her in astonishment when he looked at the check.
“But Madam, this check is for only $50.00” “That’s correct” she replied “I charged you $300.00 for sleeping with me.”
“But I didn’t sleep with you madam!”exclaims the manager.”well to bad ,I was here,and you could have
