Sep
4
2004

service fee

As we gathered our things together to leave for Whistler, I noticed a small stack of silver Canadian coins — about $0.75 CDN — on one of the side tables. The coins were Rob’s, and he’d left them on the table because he didn’t want to carry them. He shrugged when Steve and I suggested that housekeeping might assume the coins were intended as a tip.

When we returned from our day’s adventures, there was a note on the table and Rob’s toothbrush sitting next to it. While cleaning the bathroom, the note read, the housekeeper, Debra, had accidentally knocked the toothbrush into the toilet. Debra offered her apologies … yet apparently took the coins as a tip anyway.

The joke then became that the maid had purposely dropped the toothbrush because she was offended by the paltry “tip.”

Posted at 6:28 PM in personal, travel

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